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Flow is often described as a state of kind of effortless effort. We feel like we're propelled through the activity. Everything else just seems to disappear. Time is going to dilate, which is a fancy way of saying it's going to pass strangely, five hours go by in like five minutes. Occasionally it'll slow down. You get a freeze frame effect between anybody who's been in a car crash, for example, intuition tends to get turned up a lot. This is an basketball player in the zone seeing the hoop, and suddenly it's as big as a Hulu. And our frown muscles tend to be paralyzed. And what that frowning is is a sign that the brain is doing work. This is, this is a constant issue in my marriage where my wife thinks I'm mad at her or somebody, and I'm like, no, no. I'm just thinking, this is just me thinking I'm in robot mode.