What else brings 'flow' or joy besides cars?
Discussion
As I understand it, this concept of 'flow' is when we have intense focus on something we enjoy, and feel no sense of time passing. I do get it from driving on open roads, occasionally.
But I also can spend *hours* in my garden - literally taking dead leaves of plants - and I am always amazed how much time has passed and how healed calm I feel.
Are there pastimes, including car-related stuff where this happens for you? How does it feel?
But I also can spend *hours* in my garden - literally taking dead leaves of plants - and I am always amazed how much time has passed and how
Are there pastimes, including car-related stuff where this happens for you? How does it feel?
For me, spannering can be like that. 3 hours can pass in a moment of intense concentration and joy. the quality of the work is often very good in these circumstances.
Reading is also such an activity for me - time seems to slow, and the book comes to life as I'm absorbed into the story. Back in uni, I was measured at reading over 800 words a minute in this kind of trance.
But thinking about it, maybe rock climbing is the ultimate - this kind of total concentration where only the rock matters, and falling and failure become a thing not the be considered. Fear takes a back seat, and the joy and flow of movement on the rock is the only thing that matters. Complete bliss. But complete exhaustion after.
Reading is also such an activity for me - time seems to slow, and the book comes to life as I'm absorbed into the story. Back in uni, I was measured at reading over 800 words a minute in this kind of trance.
But thinking about it, maybe rock climbing is the ultimate - this kind of total concentration where only the rock matters, and falling and failure become a thing not the be considered. Fear takes a back seat, and the joy and flow of movement on the rock is the only thing that matters. Complete bliss. But complete exhaustion after.
Flippin' 'eck! I thought I was doing well to get it down to just under a minute, but you, Sir, are a legend! 
Rowing in a crew when it all just clicks, from a pair up to an VIII.
It's brilliant, it's powerful, it's visually stunning, you're asking questions of your body and getting the right answers, and if you're on an empty stretch of river and the conditions are calm, so much the better. It really is a mental tonic, that feeling of being part of a well drilled unit. Of course, like most sports, when you're having a 'mare, it sucks and you get angry. But I nominate the good times when rowing; it can be quite intoxicating.
I loved the Rio 2016 Men's VIIIs final - they steamed out of the blocks and you just knew no-one was going to get past them (particularly with Andy Triggs-Hodge in what's known as the ejector seat):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4UXGhI0Jp4
It's brilliant, it's powerful, it's visually stunning, you're asking questions of your body and getting the right answers, and if you're on an empty stretch of river and the conditions are calm, so much the better. It really is a mental tonic, that feeling of being part of a well drilled unit. Of course, like most sports, when you're having a 'mare, it sucks and you get angry. But I nominate the good times when rowing; it can be quite intoxicating.
I loved the Rio 2016 Men's VIIIs final - they steamed out of the blocks and you just knew no-one was going to get past them (particularly with Andy Triggs-Hodge in what's known as the ejector seat):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4UXGhI0Jp4
Edited by Europa1 on Tuesday 14th July 22:11
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