The Magic of Being "In the Zone"

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When you feel like you can get so much done, and nobody can stop you, you might be experiencing what psychologists call "flow." But what’s actually happening to your brain when you're in that state? Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Greg, Alex Schuerch, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781317976196 https://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow?language=en https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-017-9088-8_16 http://cogs.indiana.edu/icogsci/vol2/IUJCS_Vol2_Spring_2007.pdf#page=3 http://psiholoska-obzorja.si/arhiv_clanki/2007_2/smolej.pdf https://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?paperID=86512 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02701367.1996.10607928 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0022429411434931 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10413200290103608 http://www.unizd.hr/Portals/12/Nastavnici/Zvjezdan%20Penezic/Nastava/PEM/PDF/Intrinsic%20and%20Extrinsic%20Motivational%20Orientations.pdf https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10413200305402 https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/cyber.2010.0377 https://academic.oup.com/jcr/article/31/2/324/1824964 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0148296302003302 https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-playing-field/201402/flow-states-and-creativity https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Susan_Jackson3/publication/29455230_Relationships_between_Flow_Self-Concept_Psychological_Skills_and_Performance/links/0deec5226669539231000000.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eunju_Lee7/publication/7951803_The_Relationship_of_Motivation_and_Flow_Experience_to_Academic_Procrastination_in_University_Students/links/004635358f36cbd1ab000000/The-Relationship-of-Motivation-and-Flow-Experience-to-Academic-Procrastination-in-University-Students.pdf https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10902-007-9069-y http://psiholoska-obzorja.si/arhiv_clanki/2007_2/smolej.pdf http://art.co.za/arianavanheerden/SAJAH%20-%20Creativity.pdf http://ocw.metu.edu.tr/file.php/85/ceit706/week3/Weber_TheorizingFlow.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15522630 http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~pineda/COGS175/readings/Dietrich.pdf https://bigthink.com/videos/the-neurochemistry-of-flow-states-with-steven-kotler https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Oliver_Stoll/publication/301642269_Running_and_Flow_Does_Controlled_Running_Lead_to_Flow-States_Testing_the_Transient_Hypofontality_Theory/links/574d837808aec988526b65e0/Running-and-Flow-Does-Controlled-Running-Lead-to-Flow-States-Testing-the-Transient-Hypofontality-Theory.pdf http://www.flowgrade.com/blog/the-neurobiology-of-flow-what-happens-in-your-brain-when-you-perform/ https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-58484-3_28 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00300/full Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/artists-workshop-gm143921787-18583988 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/seniors-playing-chess-in-the-nursing-home-gm673955550-123518583 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/rock-climber-clinging-to-a-cliff-gm527531592-92777339 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/speed-motion-on-night-city-road-gm684637118-125672683?clarity=false https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/speed-motion-on-night-city-road-gm684637118-125672683?clarity=false https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/human-brain-and-its-capabilities-gm492384634-76269245 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/human-brain-and-its-capabilities-gm492384634-76269245 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/brake-other-bulb-gm923351592-253456705


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