Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Shane Enete is a professor who researches financial well-being. In Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, author Mihaly ...

Professionals also try to shape their own temporal experience to achieve this state of optimal busyness, since it feels energizing and productive and they feel in control — but this is a flawed ...

When they think that control is underused (weak levels), they experience quiet time, and feel less productive, bored, and anxious, though with less work-life conflict. And like Goldilocks, when they ...