Murray State's Digital Commons Integrated Studies Center for Adult and Regional Education Fall 2019 The Flow Rendezvous: Where Flow and Reality Meet Derrick Thomas
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/bis437 Recommended Citation Thomas, Derrick, "The Flow Rendezvous: Where Flow and Reality Meet" (2019). Integrated Studies. 247. https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/bis437/247 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for Adult and Regional Education at Murray State's Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Integrated Studies by an authorized administrator of Murray State's Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Running head: THE FLOW RENDEZVOUS 1 The Flow Rendezvous: Where Flow and Reality Meet Derrick W. Thomas Murray State University Running head: THE FLOW RENDEZVOUS 2 Abstract This paper explores many published journal articles and one outstanding book which reported and conducted research on the phenomenon of flow. Flow captures the positive mental state of being completely absorbed, focused, and involved in your activities at a certain point in time, as well as having a feeling of enjoyment from being engaged in that activity. The articles detail the findings of the research conducted on flow in regards to the validity of flow, if it can be measured, how it could be measured, and various examples of the state. Each of the articles have a similar definition of the zone and describe it in a standardized manner. Most of the articles, as well as the book, The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Perforce, reference the works of Dr.