What else brings 'flow' or joy besides cars?

What else brings 'flow' or joy besides cars?

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kevinon

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799 posts

59 months

Tuesday 14th July 2020
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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?


anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 14th July 2020
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Have you ever had sex with a lady?

bearman68

4,642 posts

131 months

Tuesday 14th July 2020
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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.

James-m5qjf

1,400 posts

46 months

Tuesday 14th July 2020
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Downhill mountain biking, until you crash and break bones...

alorotom

11,907 posts

186 months

Tuesday 14th July 2020
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Lego
Website building
Browsing AT

glenrobbo

35,061 posts

149 months

Tuesday 14th July 2020
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stickleback123 said:
Have you ever had sex with a lady?
Yes.

Time passes very quickly indeed! paperbag

alorotom

11,907 posts

186 months

Tuesday 14th July 2020
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glenrobbo said:
stickleback123 said:
Have you ever had sex with a lady?
Yes.

Time passes very quickly indeed! paperbag
How fast can 23seconds go!

glenrobbo

35,061 posts

149 months

Tuesday 14th July 2020
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Spending time with young grandchildren is such a truly marvellous way to spend however much time is available.
I can't think of much else more rewarding.

csd19

2,170 posts

116 months

Tuesday 14th July 2020
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alorotom said:
glenrobbo said:
stickleback123 said:
Have you ever had sex with a lady?
Yes.

Time passes very quickly indeed! paperbag
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How fast can 23seconds go!
Twice??

glenrobbo

35,061 posts

149 months

Tuesday 14th July 2020
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alorotom said:
glenrobbo said:
stickleback123 said:
Have you ever had sex with a lady?
Yes.

Time passes very quickly indeed! paperbag
How fast can 23seconds go!
23 seconds? yikes Flippin' 'eck! I thought I was doing well to get it down to just under a minute, but you, Sir, are a legend! bow

underwhelmist

1,852 posts

133 months

Tuesday 14th July 2020
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Playing music (I play bass).

Doing something like reassembling these...


snotrag

14,446 posts

210 months

Tuesday 14th July 2020
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Mountain Biking.

Its no coincidence that a fair number of motoring journos and race drivers ride Mountain Bikes (or Road too).

Man, machine, flow.

Brads67

3,199 posts

97 months

Tuesday 14th July 2020
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Rattling downhill on a mountain bike.

Jaguar steve

9,232 posts

209 months

Tuesday 14th July 2020
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Sailing is my Zen time. smile

Nothing flows better for me than concentrating on the here and now awareness of the tactile involvement with wind and tide needed to keep a boat on course and sailing efficiently.

S100HP

12,645 posts

166 months

Tuesday 14th July 2020
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Running, cycling, dog walking and gaming.

V1nce Fox

5,508 posts

67 months

Tuesday 14th July 2020
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Riding or fettling motorbikes, and fighting/training. Both have an element of "flow" to them which are essential for me.


alorotom

11,907 posts

186 months

Tuesday 14th July 2020
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glenrobbo said:
23 seconds? yikes Flippin' 'eck! I thought I was doing well to get it down to just under a minute, but you, Sir, are a legend! bow
Always happy to disappoint rofl

Europa1

10,923 posts

187 months

Tuesday 14th July 2020
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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

Edited by Europa1 on Tuesday 14th July 22:11

Don1

15,936 posts

207 months

Tuesday 14th July 2020
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Flow.... Mountain biking, sparring/fighting, DJing, playing guitar.

bobtail4x4

3,701 posts

108 months

Tuesday 14th July 2020
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stickleback123 said:
Have you ever had sex with a lady?
a lady what?