Have you ever been in a state of intense focus in the pursuit of a clear objective and you lost track of time, your sense of self vanished and your performance skyrocketed? If you have ever ...

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 ...

Ludwig Wittgenstein, an Austrian Philosopher, once said: " A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of discussion." I agree. "Superfluidity" is one of these words. I hope that adopting this ...

The first time I witnessed the impossible, I was nine. This was 1976, the year of the Bicentennial. The purveyor of impossible was my younger brother. He was seven. It was late afternoon. Brother had ...

This summer, recreational climber J.B. MacKinnon stood beneath a short but difficult climbing route in Cheakamus Canyon, north of Squamish, British Columbia. When he first looked up the vertical rock ...