You know in every moment what to do, and you know immediately whether you've done it right or not. You know that your skills can meet the challenges of a situation, not that they are less than the situation demands, in which case you feel anxious, or more, in which case you are bored. You are serene. You forget your problems, expand beyond your ego's bounds. Time speeds up.
Hours seem like minutes.
You look for no reward beyond that inherent in the activity itself. Dr. Mike's research indicates that 15 percent of us have never had the flow experience and that another 17 to 20 percent have it every day. The rest fall somewhere in between. Most people think love or money confers happiness. In short, they think it rides on something outside of themselves.