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What Is a Flow State?

By Kendra Cherry — 2022

If you have ever felt completely absorbed in something, you might have been experiencing a mental state that psychologists refer to as flow. Achieving this state can help people feel greater enjoyment, energy, and involvement.

Read on www.verywellmind.com

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How Digital Distraction Is Killing Creativity and What to Do About It

What if there was a way to neutralize the negative effects of digital distraction and increase happiness, health, and creativity in the process? In this piece, Brian Solis gives us a practical, playful, and incredibly powerful approach for doing just that

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Shama Hyder
2019
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15 Ways to Get Motivated at College

Here are fifteen ways to get your motivation up—and to keep it up—throughout your college career.

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Lynn F. Jacobs, Jeremy S. Hyman
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How To Reach Flow State (Using 10 Flow State ‘Triggers’)

Think about the last time where you were engaged in an activity and you simply lost track of time. You were focused like a ninja, you felt amazing and it seemed as if there was nothing else on this planet besides you and your activity.

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Jari Roomer
2019
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Study Hacks for Neurodiverse Incoming Students

Embarking on the journey that is your college career can be a difficult process, even more so if your brain works differently than a neurotypical’s. Here are some tips and tricks I’ve learned as an upperclassman.

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Samara Karow
2021
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Hansel & Gretel and the Importance of Creative Strategies

When an ADHD brain leaves one task to go to another, and then back again, they may have a difficult time finding their footing in what they were doing in that original task, AND not have the motivation to begin it.

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Pam Barton
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Self-Discipline for Self-Employed People (Especially Creatives)

It recently dawned on me that I struggle with self-discipline. After years of robotically doing tasks imposed by others without having much choice about what to do and the order to do it, the ability to organise my own life exactly how I wanted it has at times proved to be daunting.

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Debbie Stokoe
2017
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100+ Ways to Inspire Creative Thinking

As a writer, I am in constant search for inspiration. Sometimes it comes to me out of the blue, but for the most part, I have to work hard for it. If only the solution were as simple as flipping a switch! Having creativity exercises on deck might just serve to unleash your creativity.

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Anna
2021
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18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently

it's not just a stereotype of the "tortured artist" -- artists really may be more complicated people. Research has suggested that creativity involves the coming together of a multitude of traits, behaviors and social influences in a single person.

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Carolyn Gregoire
2014
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Creative People’s Brains Really Do Work Differently

Creative people are able to juggle seemingly contradictory modes of thought—cognitive and emotional, deliberate and spontaneous.

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Carolyn Gregoire
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Understanding the Four Stages of the Creative Process

Any creative process is a dance between the inner and the outer; the unconscious and conscious mind; dreaming and doing; madness and method; solitary reflection and active collaboration.

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Carolyn Gregoire
2019
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