As someone who lives on the left-hand side of this chart, I’m not so sure.

Jokes aside, it is rare for me to ever achieve a flow state (if I honestly ever have); however, in those few moments that I would consider a flow state, it’s the exciting sensation that everything is coming together. It is as if I can see the most clear, vibrant path to cut my way through a problem that was a forest of disorientation.

Personally, my work is exceedingly cerebral (teaching and sometimes writing), so I cannot say anything about the physicality of it. All I can define it as is a moment of profound and rewarding clarity in which I finally stumble upon the perfect path to take to overcome an obstacle that previously felt amorphous and awkward.