A relatable example of musicians entering the flow state appears in the 2020 Disney and Pixar film Soul. When someone spends a lot of time in “The Zone” in the movie, they experience a state ...

A recently published neuroscience-based study (Rosen et al., 2024) on optimal flow states from Drexel University's Creativity Research Lab used electroencephalograms (EEGs) to monitor brain ...

A recent study out of Drexel University's Creative Research Lab in Philadelphia, led by Dr. John Kounios, sought to examine ...

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 ...