How to Have a Brilliant Life, 2nd Edition

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CHALLENGE

Everyone loves a challenge. Well, they do if they feel they can meet that challenge. The bigger crisis comes when you don’t feel equipped with the right skills to tackle the challenge.

Hungarian-born Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has a theory that, if you get two key measures – the levels of challenge and skill – functioning at a high level, you will work in a place called ‘flow’. He describes ‘flow’ as: ‘Being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one . . . Your whole being is involved, and you’re using your skills to the utmost.’

Does that sound like you at work?

Here’s how to show Csikszentmihalyi’s theory of ...