Thank you for filling out the Flow Profile Quiz to discover how you can bring more flow into your life. Understanding your Flow Profile is an important first step. With the information below you’ll gain more clarity on what flow is, how you can bring more of it into your life, and what pitfalls to avoid as you move deeper into a flow practice.
The profile that follows is just the beginning when it comes to understanding flow and the processes that can make it more readily available to you. To really understand your Flow Profile, we encourage you to explore the videos and content on the Flow Genome Project website, in addition to the series of emails we’ll be sending over the coming weeks. These will all help you find the perfect mix of information, process, and practice to live a life of flow.
You: You’re an extrovert. You gain energy from being around other people. You’re most at home right in the thick of things — hanging out with friends, going to the big game, at concerts, and at conferences. Anywhere you can thrive on the energy and inspiration you get from interacting with others.
You find the Flow State when you’re lost in the moment in the company of friends and like-minded individuals. You gain a charge from intense events, but that sense of intensity comes more from the power of shared experience than from the risks involved.
Flow Hacks: You approach the Flow State at festivals, conferences, social and political causes, nightlife, from social media, and from managing organizations and team.
Caution: As a crowd pleaser, pay close attention to the “Hedonic Treadmill.” More, Better, and Bigger doesn’t always bring you back to the same feeling of Flow that attracted you to a given activity in the first place. Rallying more people to the “cause” can often backfire, forcing you repeat behaviors that actually take you further away from a fully dimensioned Flow State.
Pro-Tip: T.S. Eliot once said that “a condition of complete simplicity / [costs] not less than everything.” Flow is no different. (In fact, Eliot might have been referring to Flow when he wrote that!) In order to achieve Flow, you may need to tone down your social life. Go deeper in your training and practices. When you do get back together with your crew, you’ll be leading everyone to higher heights than ever before. If you’re into social lubricants like alcohol or MDMA, consider laying off of them in order to more clearly assess the value of how and with whom you’re spending your time.
