Flow State

…..This blend of happiness and peak performance is sometimes referred to as flow, which is what athletes and performers experience when they are “in the zone.” Flow is the mental state you experience when you are so focused on the task at hand that the rest of the world fades away.

People who experience flow describe it as “a state of effortless concentration so deep that they lose their sense of time, of themselves, of their problems,” and their descriptions of the joy of that state are so compelling that Csikszentmihalyi has called it an “optimal experience.” Many activities can induce a sense of flow, from painting to raci

“When you start working, everybody is in your studio - the past, your friends, enemies, the art world and above all your own ideas - all are there. But if you continue painting they all start leaving one by one, and you are left alone. Then if you’re lucky, even you leave” - Philip Guston