Here is how you regularly go into the “flow” state
Whatever your skills are, you seek out challenges to implementing those skills such that the skills match the challenges.
If the challenges are too tough, you will be overwhelmed by them as your skills won’t match up to them. (I am overwhelmed by the challenge of learning about machine learning.)
If the challenges are too easy, you will get bored and won’t try to do anything. (I got bored of the Mario game in childhood because I beat it so many times! I got really good at it. The game didn’t challenge me more after the final stage.)
And in addition to this, you must expose yourself consistently to just a tiny bit of harder challenges that will push you to improve yourself by getting better at your skills.
Do you see a positive feedback loop here?
If you don’t improve your skills, then you are stuck with the ability to take on a certain level of challenges. And that brings monotony. Soon you will be bored again.
Read the book Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi for a much deeper exploration of this concept. This post is just a nugget compared to the knowledge you will gain from that book!
