Peak flow doesn’t come from pushing harder. It comes from letting the mind get out of its own way. Here’s the science behind ...

Science has discovered a new mental strategy to enhance the power of flow states. Here’s what you need to know. A new study published in Personality and Individual Differences explores how ...

Have you ever done a tricky but doable task — say a puzzle — and felt intense engagement, absorption, and enjoyment? If so, you’ve experienced a flow state. If this sounds familiar, you’re in good ...

There is a state of mind athletes talk about when they are totally absorbed in the moment and the actions of their sport. They call it being in "the zone", a "flow state" or simply "flow". In his ...

Ludwig van Beethoven’s notebooks show that he spent countless hours laboriously developing and revising the musical ideas on which his great compositions were based. It was a torturous and ...

Dreams have been described as dress rehearsals for real life, opportunities to gratify wishes, and a form of nocturnal therapy. A new theory aims to make sense of it all. Have you ever found yourself ...

The rather quaint term “brainstorming” was coined by Alex Osborn in 1953 in his book Applied Imagination: Principles and Procedures of Creative Thinking. Osborn was a businessman and creativity ...

After kicking off a one-mile run, next thing you know, you check your watch and realize you’ve already breezed through four. Your body is working hard, but you don’t feel overexerted. Or maybe you’re ...

It's 2 AM, and your room is cleaner than it's ever been. Heaving slightly from the exertion of rearranging all your furniture, and aching all over, you stand at the entrance feeling both incredibly ...

This class describes the value of current- and future-state charts and how they contribute to quality initiatives. Process flow charts are a means to identify waste and inefficiencies in the ...