It really depends on the person. People are different, some may get flow from coding and others from knitting. An important point is to achieve flow you have to

It really depends on the person. People are different, some may get flow from coding and others from knitting. An important point is to achieve flow you have to find what you are doing intrinsically rewarding. It is really ok that some people don't get flow from coding, and some do, but we shouldn't expect everyone to. There's even a checklist for "have I achieved flow?" so you know. Nakamura and Csíkszentmihályi identify the following six factors as encompassing an experience of flow. [3] intense and focused concentration on the present moment merging of action and awareness a loss of reflective self-consciousness a sense of personal control or agency over the situation or activity a distortion of temporal experience, one's subjective experience of time is altered experience of the activity as intrinsically rewarding, also referred to as autotelic experience Those aspects can appear independently of each other, but only in combination do they constitute a so-called flow experience.