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In flow, you are 500% more productive; you acquire skills 490% faster; creativity increases 400 to 700% and you are 430% better at creative problem solving. This means if you spend all of Monday in a flow state, you would be as productive as an entire week not spent in one. You could go to work one day a week, or you could crush the competition five-fold.

Why do we still covet these environments that were conceived of more than 70 years ago? Creators young and old still aspire to get access to and one day build one of these shrines of their own. But are they really serving the purpose of creativity in the music industry? Their original intended purpose was very much a technical necessity but today our creative process is so different so why do these spaces persist in our work and our dreams?

In states of chaos we find our creativity, energy and ingenuity. We also accelerate learning and find new ways to work that can trump our old frameworks. This is an interview with 3 industry veterans who chose to keep the music going and inspire an entire community of creators at the possibility and ultimate reality of large scale virtual song camps.

The traditional recording studio might very well be a dinosaur that finally needs to die. All this accelerated change happening in our known world is forcing us to rethink how we foster creativity when the familiar is forgotten especially when it comes to the physical spaces we use. The traditional studio was not designed with a focus on fostering creativity, but rather to achieve something that was technically difficult to do at the time; but times have changed.

Here are 11 proven things that will help manage anxiety and boost energy. Don’t feel like it’s an all or nothing list! You may try and tackle 1 or 2 practices and that’s fine too.

Here are science backed ways to shape your environment with the goal of inspiring more creativity whether at home or at work.