Snap out of it
When you achieve flow, nothing else matters.
You don’t worry about the stray notifications buzzing your phone. You don’t think about how you haven’t eaten since dinner last night. You don’t think about the mosquito bite on your arm. You don’t think about your upcoming house party and how you’re going to Costco later in the day. You don’t think about the hum of the cable box behind your head. You don’t think about the watch on your wrist that’s worth twice your monthly salary. You don’t think about the people you care about most.
You just care about the task at hand: crunching data and churning out one hell of an analysis as efficiently as possible.
And then, you lose it. You lose flow. You stretch your arms and yawn, and the world comes back and smacks you in the face. It’s like the scene in the second season of Master of None, episode 6, when the audio snaps back in as the attention shifts from the deaf cashier to the African taxi driver. Watch it. The world comes back at you. Everything suddenly reminds you of your context.
It was nice while it lasted.
