flow state
/ˈfloʊ ˌsteɪt/
a mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed
flow state in a sentence
“The coder entered a flow state and worked for hours without pause.”
Origin of flow state
Coined by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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