Is finding "flow" the key to happiness?

寻找“心流”是幸福的钥匙吗?

Post Reports

2025-12-31

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In one of our favorite episodes of the year, a group of self-proclaimed “old ladies” dive for garbage — and unexpectedly find joy. This is a story from The Optimist, The Washington Post’s section about the best of humanity. If you want more stories like this, subscribe to our newsletter. If you love hearing these stories on “Post Reports,” please send us an email at podcasts@washpost.com. You can reach Maggie Penman directly at maggie.penman@washpost.com. Today’s show was produced by Maggie Penman. It was edited and mixed by Ted Muldoon. Thank you to Allison Klein.  Subscribe to The Washington Post here.
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  • Hey there, it's Martine.

  • I hope you're having a great holiday season.

  • Today, I wanted to share an episode for my friend Maggie Penman.

  • She's a reporter for The Optimist,

  • which means she tells stories about inspiring people and things that are going right in the world.

  • Earlier this year, she did the story I loved about a possible secret to happiness.

  • It's called Flow.

  • Flow is this concept in psychology, and it basically means getting in the zone.

  • The people you talk to for this story find it in a very funny way.

  • But there are all kinds of ways to find it.

  • Cooking, knitting, doing yoga, playing a musical instrument.

  • I personally feel flow when I'm taking tennis lessons,

  • which I'm not very good, but that doesn't matter.

  • I'm in flow.

  • So whatever your thing is, I hope you're finding some time to do it this week.

  • And I hope you enjoy this episode.

  • We are really going to be zigzagging.

  • It's a fairly shallow plateau.

  • We can get three of us, you know, 10, 12 feet apart.

  • Susan Bauer is holding court in a sandy parking lot across the street from a pond on Cape Cod.