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Focus And Flow State: A Comprehensive Brain Guide

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A neuroscience perspective on Focus, from distractions and multi-tasking over improvement strategies to the Flow State

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It’s Great to Be ‘In the Zone’ — While Working, Exercising and Creating Art. Here’s How to Get There.

In the 1960s, psychologist Abraham Maslow became the first academic to write about what he called “peak experiences,” moments of elation that come from pushing ourselves in challenging tasks.

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Jessica Wapner
2019
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How to Enter the ‘Flow State’ for Effortless Creativity

Taking a modern look at a millennia-old concept. We experience the "flow state" when a given task becomes effortless and time slips by without our noticing. The concept has appeared in many ancient philosophies like Stoicism and Taoism, and modern research has confirmed this experience is real.

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Matt Davis
2018
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The ‘Flow State’: Where Creative Work Thrives

Many of us know what it’s like to be in a state of creative flow. Do you have to wait for inspiration to strike, or can you hack ‘the zone’?

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Alice Robb
2019
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The Flow (the Zone)— For Writers? What Is It? How Do I Get Into It?

The concept of the flow, or being in the zone for an artist, is very much like the state an athlete achieves (or strives to achieve) for peak performance. It’s that place beyond all the effort, where time is meaningless and everything just flows.

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Elle Fredine
2018
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The Mindful Musician: Mental Skills for Peak Performance

In The Mindful Musician: Mental Skills for Peak Performance, author Vanessa Cornett offers guidelines to help musicians cultivate artistic vision, objectivity, freedom, quiet awareness, and self-compassion, both on- and offstage in order to become more resilient performers.

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Vanessa Cornett
2019
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Actor explains the Importance of Focus in the Acting Industry

Actor Craig Frank explains the importance of focus within our work. Craig shares a story of an audition early on. He attributes the terrible audition to being focused on the pressure, rather than his objectives as the character. Craig teaches us that focus can be both positive and negative.

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2016
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An Actor's CONCENTRATION - Acting Tips with David Strasberg

Send us your questions for David Strasberg and we will answer some of them in an upcoming video.

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2019
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The Art of Focus—A Crucial Ability | Christina Bengtsson | TEDxGöteborg

How do you bring out the best in yourself? According to Christina Bengtsson—Swedish world champion in precision shooting—the answer lies in the word “focus.” It is a phenomenon she has spent her whole career exploring and she warns us that part of the next generation may not possess this ability.

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2017
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Kelvin Doe at TEDxTeen

15-Year-Old Kelvin Doe is an engineering whiz living in Sierra Leone who scours the trash bins for spare parts, which he uses to build batteries, generators and transmitters.

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2013
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POMODORO TECHNIQUE - My Favorite Tool to Improve Studying and Productivity

The Pomodoro Technique is one of my favorite ways to beat procrastination and maintain productivity and focus. The pomodoro technique utilizes alternating focus and break times of 25 and 5 minutes, respectively.

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2016
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