职场法则：如何进入"心流"工作状态?

人人都渴望全身心地投入到工作之中。领导力专家卡米尔•普雷斯顿认为，所谓的“心流”状态并非艺术家的专利，只要方法得当，每个人都可以进入这种事半功倍的工作状态。首先要做的就是，排除电子邮件、短信和社交媒体的干扰。下面就具体介绍五种方法喔!

There is absolutely nothing like flow, which is that energized, hyper-focused state that you fall in when you are completely absorbed in whatever you’re doing. You’ve felt it, right? Working in such an absorbed fashion that you look up and hours have flown by. Feeling completely engaged and focused. Call it flow, peak performance, or being in the zone. It’s when we work and live at our absolute best.

绝对没有什么能够和“心流”相提并论。所谓“心流”是指当你全身心投入一件事情时，你所呈现出的精力充沛、高度专注的状态。你曾体会过这种状态吗?全神贯注地工作，抬起头时发现时光飞逝。那是一种全身心投入和精力高度集中的感觉。你可以称它为心流，或者最佳表现或专心致志等。其实就是我们以最佳状态投入到工作和生活之中。

The concept of flow was first noted and studied by University of Chicago psychology professor MihalyCsikszentmihalyi, who came to believe that flow is the ultimate state of happiness. In Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Csikszentmihalyi says you know you’re in flow when the work is effortless, when you feel:

芝加哥大学(University of Chicago)心理学教授米哈里•齐克森米哈里最先提出心流这一概念，并对其进行了一番研究。他相信心流是幸福的终极状态。在《心流：一种美妙的心理状态》(Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience)一书中，齐克森米哈里提到，在心流状态下，工作毫不费力，你会感觉到：

• Completely immersed and engaged in what you are doing

• 完全沉浸于并全身心投入到正在做的事情当中

• A sense of ecstasy, feeling outside everyday reality

• 一种陶醉感，感觉自己超越了日常现实

• Great inner clarity

• 内心的纯净

• Confidence in the task at hand

• 对手头任务充满自信

• A sense of serenity

• 一种宁静感

• Timelessness, hours seem to pass in minutes

• 超越了时间，几个小时一眨眼便过去了

• Intrinsic motivation, meaning whatever has produced the flow is its own reward

• 内在激励，即无论会产生什么，心流本身便是一种奖励。

You don’t have to be a famous artist, writer, or athlete to get in the flow. We can all get there. We can all learn to work better, with real joy, passion, and presence. How? Well, there’s a simple science to it, but the bottom line is that in order to really experience flow, we have to train ourselves to disengage from the distractions that surround us all day every day. We can’t get to flow if we’re overwired. And that means we have to learn to unwire.

并非只有著名艺术家、作家或运动员才会进入心流状态。人人都能做到。我们都可以学会带着快乐的心情，怀着激情和存在感去更好地工作。但具体应该怎么做?这是一门简单的学问，但最重要的是，为了真正进入心流，我们必须训练自己摆脱每天包围我们身边的干扰因素。如果我们过度科技化，便无法进入心流状态。这意味着我们必须学会“断开连接”。

It can certainly be tough, but here are five ways to help you get there:

这当然有难度，但通过以下五种方法可以帮助你实现这个目标：

Seek out struggle. Flow doesn’t just happen; we have to get into it, and that’s where the struggle comes in. You actually have to fight to get into flow and struggle against the myriad disruptions and distractions that prevent us from getting there — emails, texts, Facebook, Twitter, phone calls, etc. There are so many opportunities to be distracted and avoid the struggle. Don’t justify busy work (i.e. email, texts, putting all those files away, etc.); get to work on important things. Schedule a time to answer emails and phone calls. Schedule your flow time like you would anything else.

找出对抗点。心流不会凭空出现;我们必须主动寻求这种状态，这时便会出现对抗点。你必须经过努力才能进入心流状态，必须对抗阻止我们进入心流状态的混乱和干扰因素，包括电子邮件、短信、Facebook、Twitter、电话等。有太多因素会分散我们的注意力，让我们避开对抗点。不要以工作繁忙为理由(如电子邮件、短信、处理所有文件等);要处理重要的事情。安排出回复电子邮件和电话的时间。像对待其他事情一样，安排你的心流时间。