The Neuroscience of Flow

<p>You may have heard of flow, a seemingly magical state that some people enter when they write that lets them be tremendously productive and creative with little effort. Flow happens in many arts, like painting, performing music and dancing. We also hear of flow in sports. The archetypical one is rock climbing, but it can also occur in skiing, hiking, running, sailing and any other sport. It may be a bit more difficult to enter flow in competition sports, because ego gets in the way.</p> <p>How can flow be the same mental state in writing and rock climbing? These are very different activities. Writing is almost purely mental, while rock climbing is physical and scary.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/science-meaning/the-neuroscience-of-flow-7b3ce74e9194"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>