What else brings 'flow' or joy besides cars?

[kevinon]

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?

[kevinon]

El stovey said:

Flow is not just enjoying something, it’s actually a different state of mind or positive hyper focus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)

I get it swimming open water sometimes, but not in a pool where I’m having to turn every few minutes. I also get it running on occasion. In both activities sometimes I feel like I could run or swim for hours and it feels almost effortless and I even forget completely how long I’ve been running or swimming for. It’s weird but awesome when it happens. It’s hard to describe but it feels amazing and I’m totally connected to what I’m doing and like I’m running or swimming completely efficiently.

I've loved reading examples of it. I didn't want to get too academic about it - I read the book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - because it might shut down people's creativity to think of it as a 'thing' apart. It's common. I do wonder if folks who like driving, rallying, ski-ing MBX etc have got this 'flow' thing sorted. You can't not concentrate when at high speed for example! But also I wonder if restoring a car would be great for flow too?