Flow, commonly called being in the zone, is where a person is totally engaged in performing an activity, up to the point where they are hardly self-conscious or conscious of their surroundings. The ...

Effortless, enjoyable productivity is a state of consciousness prized and sought after by people in business, the arts, research, education and anyone else who wants to produce a stream of creative ...

In the half-century since Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi first introduced the concept of flow in his seminal 1975 book, Beyond Boredom and Anxiety: Experiencing Flow in Work and Play, two distinct theories ...

Flow. It’s the sense of freedom that comes when things come together so smoothly and precisely that whatever you’re doing–whether it’s driving from point A to point B or assembling the pieces of a new ...

Figure 1: Drexel University postdoctoral researcher Yongtaek Oh playing the guitar while his electroencephalograms (EEGs) are recorded in Drexel University’s Creativity Research Laboratory. The study ...

A new neuroimaging study reveals how the brain gets to the creative flow state. Effortless, enjoyable productivity is a state of consciousness prized and sought after by people in business, the arts, ...