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Just-In-Time PM #2: The Fundamentals of Flow - Forte Labs

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In Part 1, I introduced Return-on-Attention (ROA) as a way to evaluate how we invest our most precious resource – our attention. But there is a key difference between investing money and investing attention. Units of currency are always uniform and interchangeable. Units of attention, on the other hand, are not at all created equal. One minute of attention in a deep, tranquil state of concentration is potentially 100 times more valuable than the same minute waiting in line at the cashier. One hour of close collaboration with a thought partner potentially produces 100 times more value than an hour of small talk. In other words, the state of mind you are in at any given moment powerfully shapes the quality of the attention you have at your disposal. There is one particular state of mind that stands head and shoulders above the rest in terms of impact: the state of flow. First researched and coined by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experi

Just-In-Time PM #2: The Fundamentals of Flow - Forte Labs Skip to content Just-In-Time PM #2: The Fundamentals of Flow BY Tiago Forte PUBLISHED May 19, 2018 UPDATED June 10, 2022 Est. reading time: 4 min Series Navigation: Just-In-Time Project Management >">Just-In-Time PM #3: Flow Cycles >> In Part 1 , I introduced Return-on-Attention (ROA) as a way to evaluate how we invest our most precious resource – our attention. But there is a key difference between investing money and investing attention. Units of currency are always uniform and interchangeable. Units of attention, on the other hand, a

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