I'm thinking if schooling can answer this question, then schools can move closer to a bona fide 21st century educational paradigm:

How might daily classroom experiences be transformed into flow classes? Csikszentmihalyi's theory of optimal experience reveals that if something is too challenging and we lack the appropriate skill it leads to anxiousness. If the task is too easy (not challenging) and we have more than enough skill, we become bored. The key is to find the right combination in a task that challenges and that we possess the right amount of skill to do it.

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