Performance anxiety is not all bad. The psychophysical state is triggered by anxiety-provoking performance situations and is accompanied by increased body tension, attention, mental focus, and ...

Flow, commonly called being in the zone, is where a person is totally engaged in performing an activity, up to the point where they are hardly self-conscious or conscious of their surroundings. The ...

Ludwig van Beethoven’s notebooks show that he spent countless hours laboriously developing and revising the musical ideas on which his great compositions were based. It was a torturous and ...