Dr. Aditi Nerurkar

it gets you into the state of flow.

It has to be easy and accessible.

And when you do something like that, like whether it be guitar playing or painting or anything that you enjoy writing, the reason that expression of like making something like that you're spending hours on past like minutes, it's because it gets you into a state of flow.

It doesn't have to be this like...

huge thing, just something small that you can do every single day at the end of the day or at the start of the day or during your lunch break or whatever it may be.

So it's a way to find your buried treasure and then it connects you to that part of yourself.

And the state of flow for your brain is very therapeutic and healing.

So what happens scientifically, not to get all scientific, but

It...

it gets you into the state of flow.

signals, lots of cascade of neural, you know, lots of neurotransmitters and hormones and other things in your brain to help decrease stress and burnout.

And when you do something like that, like whether it be guitar playing or painting or anything that you enjoy writing, the reason that expression of like making something like that you're spending hours on past like minutes, it's because it gets you into a state of flow.

So that's the scientific reason for it.

But, you know, science is sometimes boring and people don't want to hear the science.

And instead it's like, find your buried treasure, find something that you love doing as a child that you can do just for five minutes again.

And the state of flow for your brain is very therapeutic and healing.

It

um, signals, lots of cascade of neural, um, you know, lots of neurotransmitters and hormones and other things in your brain to help decrease stress and burnout.

So that's the scientific reason for it.

But, you know, science is sometimes boring and people don't want to hear the science.