The Zone

I was talking to my old man the other day about not being able to pay attention to anything for long and he was telling me about trying to find interest in things that put me into the "zone" so to speak. I didn't realize but there is actually something called Flow Psychology. There was originally a psychologist named Mihály Csíkszentmihályi who did a study on "flow" in 1975. The people he was studying used the metaphor that they felt like a water current was carrying them along through their task thus the term "flow" was born meaning to be absorbed in whatever you are doing. His report found that when people were in the zone they had a higher sense of things, faster thinking, and rarely made mistakes. I found this interesting because I have always felt that any job I have had that I was good at or good days riding BMX or anything I really like doing as getting into the "zone" where you lose your sense of time and everything seems like one task instead of multiple tasks you just know what needs to be done and you do it. I'm sure everyone has felt like this at some time in their life. Now the real task is to find a way to get into the zone on things I'm not interested in...