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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Tracy Brower writes about joy, community and the future of work. When elite athletes or artists get into a “flow state—a zone ...

Peak performance is a state of consciousness where you’re in a rapt moment of attention, totally absorbed and focused on the task at hand. Everything else disappears, and time seems to pass quickly.

Are you finding it hard to focus right now? Working within a state of flow is hypnotic and a great way of accomplishing goals while having fun. That said, it takes a bit of work to achieve flow, ...

Different types of electrical activity within your brain dominate during certain times of day or during specific activities. Harnessing your brain’s alpha waves can help you enter a flow state, which ...

Linda: Mihalyi Csiksyenkmihalyi, a psychologist at the University of Chicago, is the leading authority on flow state. Flow is happiness, joy, and rapture, the ultimate ecstatic state. In his important ...

You know when you’ve found the flow. You experience it when you are doing something that engages you so fully that time seems to fly by. Maybe it’s a job, or something completely different, like chess ...