Flow can make intellige people work faster, but not more accurately. A psychologist explains ‘flow folly’ and why skill makes fluent thinking easy to over-trust.
Have you ever lost all sense of space and time when redecorating a room? How about being so focused while playing an instrument that the worries that weighed you down a minute ago just evaporated?
Researchers have developed a mathematical theory of flow, and argue that it is possible to enhance immersion and engagement in almost any task by manipulating a few key variables. The immersive and ...