Dr. Greg Appelbaum
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first heard Jul 2026
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think so it's a it's a very hard question we're certainly experiencing flow and we're certainly measuring it the real challenging questions are can we reliably measure it and can we reliably do anything with it well can we measure it are there can you look at my brain and say oh yes you're in a flow state
Well, I think the first thing to do is start with the behavior.
So the real trick is defining when the artist or artists are in flow.
And it's really like a three-pronged approach where we could ask the audience and we could ask Mike.
in real time while he's performing.
We have a pedal he could indicate when he feels like he's flowing.
And then we have kind of our secret weapon, which is Mike's longtime producer and sound engineer, Jared Slomoff, whose job is to
find those moments of musical articulation that are amazing, that are the flow.
And with this three-pronged approach, we could then say, OK, this part of the song is flow for Mike, or this part of the song is flow for the whole band.
And then once we've defined that behavior, we can look back at the brain states.
And lo and behold, the brain acts a little bit differently during flow than non-flow.
Exactly.
There are probably similarities and differences, but when we look kind of across the literature, the description that Mike gave is actually very consistent with our interpretation of what the brain and the physiology is doing.
What we think is happening during flow is a reduction in the frontal cortex, the part of the brain that's doing executive functioning, so reduction in frontal activity in the brain,
and more activity in the sensory systems and a change in the autonomic nervous systems.
You might connect more with deeper respiration.
I mean, all of this is kind of what Mike was talking about, which is kind of a reduction in conscious effort.
Time might pass differently.
You kind of lose your sense of self-consciousness.
And there are brain signals and physiological signals that seem to go along with this.
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