How to reclaim your flow state

Your project deadline is today. A potential career maker. You know you’ll be pushed to your creative limits. But rather than feel daunted, you lock in. Ideas occasionally out of reach are now firmly grasped. The task almost completes itself––you’re merely its vessel. You work off instinct. A sense of mastery takes hold. The workday flies by. This is flow. We’ve all felt that precious, rapturous state where immersion sets in, time evaporates, and performance peaks. It’s when humans are at their creative best. It could be learning an instrument, being “in the zone” playing sports, or, indeed,...