I was reading a book about students and attention—Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It—when I had an epiphany. Not about why my students had trouble focusing, but about ...

Golfers know it. Musicians know it. And anyone who’s ever overprepared for a conversation knows it: Tension gets in the way of flow. When golfers try to control every variable, they often tighten up ...

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934-2021), a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago and originator of the concept of flow. Source: Wikimedia Commons/ Public Domain. Author: Ehirsh. In his ...

In his landmark 1990 book Flow, psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi described flow as “a state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience is so ...

If you’ve ever read a book on popular psychology or productivity, you’ve no doubt heard of the flow state. This magical state of mind, popularized by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, happens in ...