Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘It would be impossible to “hack” flow on demand,’ says Dr Cameron Norsworthy. But we can increase our chances to experience it, ...

If you've ever felt completely absorbed in something, you might have been experiencing a mental state psychologists call flow. It's that feeling you get when you're so immersed in a task—whether ...

In one of Don Draper’s more memorable bits of wisdom, the fictional ad exec advised a creatively blocked colleague: “Just think about it. Deeply. Then forget it. And an idea will jump up in your face.

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Yesterday, Phish bassist Mike Gordon appeared on WNYC’s Science Friday podcast to discuss flow state and the research into it that he’s funding with Dr. Greg Appelbaum. In conversation with host Flora ...

In healthy volunteers, they mapped changes in the brain's architecture before, during and after propofol sedation, guided by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). This enabled them to monitor ...

Do you want to learn how to stay focused and engaged in your work? Then the research on flow may help. A flow state can be defined as a sort of effortless attention. When in flow, we are deeply ...

Have you ever been so absorbed in an activity that time just seemed to melt away? When you’re deeply focused on a challenging task that you have enough skill to complete and the activity is rewarding ...