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When creative flow conflicts with life balance expectations

I get so absorbed in making work that I forget to eat or sleep and my family thinks it is unhealthy but it is the only time I feel completely alive

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The totalizing nature of creative absorption challenges conventional notions of healthy living.

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