Nakamura, Csikszentmihályi outline the components of ‘flow’
Jeanne Nakamura and Csíkszentmihályi identify the following six factors as encompassing an experience of flow:[2]
- Intense and focused concentration on the present moment
- Merging of action and awareness
- A loss of reflective self-consciousness
- A sense of personal control or agency over the situation or activity
- A distortion of temporal experience, one’s subjective experience of time is altered
- Experience of the activity as intrinsically rewarding, also referred to as autotelic experience
Those aspects can appear independently of each other, but only in combination do they constitute a so-called flow experience. Additionally, psychology writer Kendra Cherry has mentioned three other components that Csíkszentmihályi lists as being a part of the flow experience:[3]
- Immediate feedback[3]
- Feeling the potential to succeed
- Feeling so engrossed in the experience, that other needs become negligible
Just as with the conditions listed above, these conditions can be independent of one another.
More https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)