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 ...

Brain researcher John Kounios says if you want to understand what it means to be in the flow, watch a jazz performance or a video on YouTube of artist Pablo Picasso creating a painting in under five ...

Stepping away from the usual routine and painting my art for a change. This video captures a relaxed creative process, showing brush strokes, color choices, and the calm flow that comes with making ...

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 ...

There was a time when creativity meant chaos, a beautiful kind of chaos. Designers toggled between tabs, marketers juggled deadlines, and content creators spent more hours editing than imagining.

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 ...

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 ...

Artist Jae Wheeler has a message for today’s youth: It’s OK to be different. “It’s OK to be smart or to read books. It doesn’t make you any less black. You can like rock music; you can know Van Halen.