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. And a certain minimum of those things is no doubt helpful. But in Dr. Mike's well-researched thinking, happiness comes from mastering skills and then applying them to challenging tasks. I believe Dr. Mike. As I wrote this piece, all that existed was me and the plastic click of my keyboard and my memories of what Dr. Mike had said.