Professor Dimitri van der Linden on the neuroscience of flow, how to cultivate more flow in our lives, the benefits and drawbacks of flow and flow proneness (the flow personality)

 Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:38 What is Flow? 3:55 Skill-challenge match 4:35 Autotelic experience 6:10 The dimension of Flow 8:00 Neuroscience of Flow 15.25 Flow proneness (the flow personality) 20:45 Benefits of flow  26:43 Multitasking and flow 28:30 The drawbacks of being in flow 31:18 Flow in study and work

 Dimitri van der Linden is a Professor of Work and Organisational Psychology at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Dimitri has published scores of papers on personality and flow, and lectures at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences.

 Further readings mentioned in this episode A multifaceted investigation of the link between mental fatigue and task disengagement- Hopstaken et. al. (2015) Deep, effortless concentration: Re-examining the flow concept and exploring relations with inattention, absorption, and personality- Marty-Dugas and Smilek (2019) Does playful work design ‘lead’ to more creativity? A diary study on the role of flow- Liu et. al. (2021)