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 ...

Matthew McConaughey drums his chest in a steady cadence. Head tilted back, eyes closed, he chants “hay-um” while gulping at ­­the air and reaching deep into his lower register. The ritual closes with ...

Flow, or being “in the zone,” is a state of amped-up creativity, enhanced productivity, and blissful consciousness that, some psychologists believe, is also the secret to happiness. It’s considered ...

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 ...

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 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. As a young artist and performer, I am always working in the so-called ...

Neuroscientists have attempted to uncover the "chemistry of happiness" by scanning the brains of jazz musicians as they improvised. In the field of positive psychology, there is a concept called "flow ...

Creativity does not just happen. It is a cognitive process that produces new ideas or transforms old ideas into updated concepts, according to Brussels Free University psychology professor Liane ...

Developers are all creators. It takes a tremendous amount of creativity to write code and develop applications. So developers need strategies for maintaining the creative flow and tools to help with ...