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.

What if you could unlock a state of mind where time melts away, your focus sharpens to a razor’s edge, and even the most challenging tasks feel almost effortless? This isn’t some far-off dream or a ...

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, ...

Tyrese Maxey poked his head around a makeshift curtain inside the 76ers’ practice facility, then dropped a smiling “Hey, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Watching an expert play Doom Eternal is mesmerizing. I’ve taken to watching YouTube clips of Michael “shroud” Grzesiek playing the game. Everything he does looks effortless; with pinpoint accuracy ...