Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘It would be impossible to “hack” flow on demand,’ says Dr Cameron Norsworthy. But we can increase our chances to experience it, he adds.Composite: The Guardian/Getty Images What is the secret to ...

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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 ...

Think back to a time when you were completely immersed in something you loved doing. Maybe you were writing, painting, working, or playing an instrument. The world around you faded, and time seemed to ...

The hill was called Jacob’s Ladder, and I'd been dreading it all morning. Notorious among Appalachian Trail thru-hikers, the Ladder is a section of the trail in western North Carolina that ascends ...

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 ...