Hello everybody. I'm Helen Tupper and I'm Sarah Ellis and you're listening to the squiggly careers podcast. Each week Sarah and I talk about a different topic to do with work and discuss lots of practical ideas and actions to help you develop in your career and be successful in the squiggly world of work that we're all experiencing. And today's topic is flow. And we're going to tell

you a little bit more about what flow is and why it matters and how to develop it and all that

great stuff. But before we do that, just want to let you know that if you do enjoy this episode

and if it's a topic that maybe you'd like to learn a bit more about or go a bit deeper, every

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this episode, it'll be Thursday the 30th of July. And Sarah will be doing that one because I'm

actually going to be on holiday. But Sarah, I know. How dare you? How'd you go on flow, Helen? I go on

holiday and leave Sarah to do it. So Sarah's going to be talking about how some of the models that we're talking about in

today's session and practical ways that you can put flow into action, it will be a live

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So let's start by exploring a bit about what do we mean by flow.

We probably all intuitively have felt it previously and it's probably something we all want a bit more of.

I think when you do get into flow, it's a really kind of intense moment of concentration.

I think it's almost where everything else that's happening at work or just in your life generally

disappears into the background.

I almost imagine it kind of becomes almost a bit blurry.

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