Flow is a mental state of total immersion, where time seems to pass rapidly, all of your thoughts are focused on the task at hand and there is a deep sense of joy. This state is triggered when the difficulty of the task, matches the skills/expertise, and thereby you enter a state where all your entire attention rests upon the task. Hence, there is no mental room for other thoughts relating to self-doubt, or what you may have for dinner tonight! In relation to other concepts, it could be seen as experiencing the optimal [[Cognitive load theory|cognitive load]], and is a non meta-cognitive way of reaching [[Meditation|meditative]] states. --- TODO * talk about experience sampling, maybe relate it to the idea of applying to our personal life to guide discovery of our interests * talk about the autotelic personality, and perhaps its relation to Piotr Wozniak's ideas