You Have Discovered Your Flow Profile!

 
DEEP THINKER 

Your Personal Flow Profile 

Thank you for filling out the Flow Profile Quiz to discover how you 

can bring more flow into your life. Understanding your Flow Profile is 

an important first step. With the information below you’ll gain more 

clarity on what flow is, how you can bring more of it into your life, 

and what pitfalls to avoid as you move deeper into a flow practice. 

The profile that follows is just the beginning when it comes to 

understanding flow and the processes that can make it more readily 

available to you. To really understand your Flow Profile, we 

encourage you to explore the videos and content on the Flow 

Genome Project website, in addition to the series of emails we’ll be 

sending over the coming weeks. These will all help you find the 

perfect mix of information, process, and practice to live a life of flow. 

Your Flow Profile: ​Deep 

Thinker 

You​: You experience flow as a solitary journey. You tend to enter the 

Flow State by way of creative, reflective, even soothingly repetitive 

work. Your mind wanders, your nervous system relaxes deeply, and 

you channel inspiration without inhibition.You’re able to tolerate and 

even thrive in the daily hustle and bustle, but a part of you craves 

stillness. You crave time to return to your sanctuary for rejuvenation. 

You find yourself seeking out times of the day — early mornings, or 

late evenings — during which you can feel free from conflicts and 

demands and pursue the uninterrupted concentration you value 

most. 

Flow Hacks​: How you engage with Flow ranges widely and defies 

easy categorization. You may pursue classical arts, such as painting, 

pottery, or music. You may be drawn to more contemporary forms of 

expression like digital photography, gaming, coding. You’re a 

“maker.” You might seek gentle communion with nature. You might 

prefer hiking, gardening, birdwatching, or working with animals to 

more high-speed pursuits. 

Caution​: Your particular sensitivity to a modern “always on” society 

might make you deeply out of place. It’s important that you make 

the dedicated effort it may take in order for you to carve out time for 

those experiences that give you the restorative Flow you need. In an 

age as commercialized as ours, you may feel defensive about your 

pursuits. Remind yourself that writing poetry, for instance, is a 

perfectly worthwhile endeavor, even if you never seek publication. 

It’s okay to sculpt or to ride horses, even if you never “win” anything 

from doing so. Your passions are serving an essential purpose! They 

keep you balanced and energized. They increase your resilience, your 

immunity, your creativity, and your optimism. That’s more than 

enough reason to continue! 

Pro-Tip​: Given your relatively gentle nature and your rich inner life, 

you might feel like you’re less physically gifted than others. You 
might not have excelled in team sports, and you may shun the 

vigorous and challenging in favor of the contemplative and 

restorative. Your ability to cope with the fast pace of the world 

around you might be bolstered by cardio and strength training. You 

might sign up for a fun run. Test your boundaries mentally, build 

some muscle physically. You’ll find you’ll fast become more resilient 

in your day-to-day, and be rewarded with more valuable, focused 

experiences in the Flow State.