Flow involves two ingredients: Extensive practice builds the necessary skills and neural connections. However, you must also relinquish the urge to control the outcome.
Two critical ingredients for achieving flow are consistent practice and letting go of cognitive control.We have frequently heard the phrase that practice makes perfect. No similar popular phrase relates to what makes us soar in creative output.has now shed light on this through evidence revealing that experience and mentally letting go during an activity can free the mind to produce an uninhibited flow of innovative performance.
Rosen et al., 2024 used electroencephalographic recordings of the brain activity of low-experienced and high-experienced musicians while engaging in improvisational jazz guitar. Researchers said they chose jazz improvisation as a creative, divergent-thinking task. Although the researchers chose improvisational jazz guitar to studywhen playing various instruments.
Based on Metheny's many hours of devoted practice, these areas would be expected to display heightened functioning. However, practice is only one requirement to reach a state of flow. The other requirement is increased freedom of mind or loss of mind control.The frontal lobe is the executive control area of the cortex. We rely on it to plan and make decisions. So, imagine the opposite effect if the superior frontal gyri were to decrease in activity.
Thus, if you want to creatively flow as a writer, rapper, dancer, entrepreneur, or improvisational musician, practice often and train yourself to let go of your desire to plan and control where your words, hands, body, or mind want to flow. Evidence shows that we can turn our frontal cortex down to support this flow among people already experienced in their craft.Michele K. Lewis, Ph.D.
, is full Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Winston-Salem State University. Her most recent book isUnderstanding what emotional intelligence looks like and the steps needed to improve it could light a path to a more emotionally adept world.
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