The term "in flow" suggests a state of being in sync, focused, and productive. Its antonyms or opposite terms refer to a lack of motivation, energy, or concentration. These antonyms include out of focus, unmotivated, scattered, unproductive, uninspired, unengaged, distracted, and stagnant. A person who is out of flow may experience procrastination, boredom, or apathy towards their work or passions. Recognizing the opposite of in flow can help individuals identify areas of improvement and find ways to boost their mental and emotional state to regain their flow state.

What are the antonyms for In flow?

• n.

  • influx
  • departure
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  • retreat
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Famous quotes with In flow

• If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.

  Rabindranath Tagore
• The actual manufacture of material into a specific product is a sort of digestive process which must have a functioning organization purposed to meet the required ends, just as the human body has, and it is governed by similar conditions. It must also be directed by a specific intelligence and must have internal and external avenues of correspondence to keep it alive; and, like a living organism, must adhere to the eternal economy of things and show a profit by its activities or it cannot progress. To exemplify this in a simple way, the writer has laid out Figure I, showing the prime elements composing the anatomy of an industrial body. One does not have to draw on the imagination very far to make a comparison of this anatomy with that of man. It has its mind, will power, and brain to direct it, as indicated by the stockholders, directors and executive officers, a heart which keeps in flow the circulating medium internally ; and avenues of correspondence with the outside world which furnish to it the very elements of existence. This chart shows first, that the stockholders are simply elements belonging to the general public who have made an investment for some specific purpose; second, that immediately after this, the election of directors sets into action the first internal factor in the body, which is then divided into different functioning powers by the election of executive officers.

  Clinton Edgar Woods

Synonyms:

scuttlebutt, scuttlebutt.