Flow State in Counter-Strike (The Zone)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ย. 2020
- enter The Zone and perform perfectly at everything you do. Flow State sounds too good to be true, until you experience it. I believe this state of hyper focus and pure serenity is the end goal of any competitive endeavor, and will help you perform optimally at CS:GO.
I entered flow state while playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and experienced a hyper focus that helped me perform at my absolute peak. This birthed a new Obsession with high performance and getting 'in the zone' that will hopefully help me complete soloQ to Global? I put a question mark there because... yeah I'm overselling this a bit, but it makes for a good thumbnail and description right?
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Trying to read all the comments, but they are officially coming in faster than any human can read them this video lol
Hey WarOwl when will you play the violin in a video?
The Algorithm has spoken
I guess you can say that they are coming faster than pigeons open their poop holes to poop when they see a car that has just been cleaned
GET INTO THE FLOW STATE BRO
hey thank u very making a really good video it just made my birthday :)
Confirmed: Warren Fowler is CS VSauce.
CSauce?
CSauce!!!!
mindfulness comes from Jesus beloved ones
What about 3kliksphillips
@@xmipad-rafaelxaverianmulya6084 He is more like CS lemmino
Its impossible to hate on TheWarOwl, he's just too likeable.
He makes me want to make more youtube accounts and sub him till he's 2 mil
Ikr
its called charisma
True
I like this comment
"I quit my job to play videogames"
*ANGRY JOE ROGAN NOISES*
A M A Z I N G
Joe Rogan said it was bad to be addicted not to play
@@sextipsandadvice969 I'm a joe rogan fan and he did compare it to learning bjj and how with bjj you can get a career out of it by doing something like starting your own school, whereas that's not the case for games...yeah I've watched hundreds of jre and was physically cringing when he started to go down that argument cause it was just the wrong comparison to try to make lmao. He not only said it was bad to be addicted - but that you could not transform that into something positive, contrasting that you could do such a thing with bjj.
Reddit Dubbed he also was really addicted to quake, like he played it all day so that’s more of what he meant
@@sextipsandadvice969 so just because he got addicted to quake everyone can get addicted too? That's like saying everyone who plays GTA is a potential transgressor because a crazy kid couldn't tell reality from fiction and robbed and killed a man. Hear how fucking dumb that sounds?
The most impressive part of this video was your prononciation of csikszentmihalyi
I don't know about him, but when I learn about a foreign name or word I always try to get as close as possible to the original pronunciation
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Deconstruct the skill:
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@@PriitKallas more like: Me hi, Chick sent me hi
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I was in the zone on the toilet once, had 2 different flows tho
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Nice comment gamer
Lmao this comment got me laughing good
Nice
lmaoo
Me: starts to enter flow state
Ping: imma bout to end this man's career
So relatable
Mom: imma bout to end this man's career
*It's "I'm about to," not "Imma bout to." "Imma" already means "I'm going to."
@@ziwuri omg who asked man go back to your grammar club
LOL damn that’d be aids
WarOwl: "My fanbase is not annoying at all"
WarOwl's fanbase: *Uses this comment format*
*what? i don't understand*
To be fair this is the only comment I've found in that format.
I'm a flow state addict.
Here's my advice; don't get addicted.
I used to enter flow state all the time in soccer and then I broke my foot 😀
the world go BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
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dude, can you please elaborate on this topic?
@@gunnerjax9012 Now you can be a csgo pro! Nice.
I experience flow state when I took my A.P. World History Test in 2019, my sophomore year of high school. The whole test went by in what felt like 5 minutes, but in reality I was so hyper focused that I didn't realize 3 hours went by. I ended getting a 5, the highest possible score to earn, on that test.
h4tch3t when you are focused, whatever you do feels extremely short
ok
Hell yeah the superior grading system
yo wtf i was literally procrastinating my APWH work as I watched this video, wanna hand me some notes on Unit 1? lmao
Same for me in 2017, except I was still feeling stressed somehow. Time stood still and I got my five, except I was aware of how time crunched I was
"You are either in Flow state, or you lose the battle royale solo match." - Albert Einstein, 1910 (Colorized)
"HEY! I never said that!" -- Abraham Lincoln, 1911
@@rosuav "Yes, I did" - Julius Caesar, 1912
"Deez nuts"
-Shaka Zulu c. 1521
Americans: *butcher your 4 letter European name after you told them Exactly how to pronounce it*
WarOwl: *nails a name in a language even other Europeans talk shit on for being unpronouncable*
I feel that
Stay with me here:
I believe that things like meditation, therapy and accepting and loving yourself are key for the flow state. Because when you think about it: all it is is accepting the situation.
In that moment every problem, every enemy, every challenge is just that, an object. A reality for you to process. Normally you get angry cause you feel left alone by your team and if only they were different things would be better or something like that. You wish for being in a different situation. Flow is the acceptance of your situation. And I think that reducing the noise in your head, the doubt, the fear, the experiences which let you think that the current situation cannot be handled makes it way easier to enter that state.
But that's just the thoughts of a random guy without any knowledge. We need SCIENCE!
interesting ideas!
Spot on my dude
Thas deep mah dude
Imagine loving yourself 😅
@@bigshagger1789 It's kinda hard if you need to learn it by yourself. Consists mostly of accepting what you feel and realizing that you can do good to yourself :)
I know this feeling from playing chess. We call it "being in the tunnel" because you don't realise what is happening around you. Sometimes I don't hear sounds around me.
It seems like every sport or activity has a different name for it, but I think it's all the same thing.
@@TheWarOwl pog
@@TheWarOwl Ron Rambo Kim had made a video about csgo and flow state.
ah yes, tunnel vision. Naroditsky's videos with cr1tikal have been great to spot those situations
@@TheWarOwl in basketball they call it "being selfish"... Nah jk it's called the hot hand... And it's normally only for a few Mins before a defender ends it... But yeah I play chess and it is definitely a thing... You playing in a tourney and then you look up and everyone else is gone
I've entered flow state many times while playing CS, but just like you say. If the opponents are bad or there is a teammate trying his hardest to make you loose focus, you will never enter it. But if the coms are clean, the focus on the game is 100% and you feel like you're being pushed by the enemy. Then you're in tip top shape for entering the zone.
The dangers of entering the zone is like you said, you lose some senses. For example you might not hear everything or if someone calls something you cannot hear it cause you're in another world.
But with that said, I mostly enter the zone in CS when there is a need for a hard carry and I know the teams eyes are upon me. I also feel like I enter it more and more when I am streaming or knowingly can make videos of it. Sort of like the more eyes there are upon me the more pressure and the higher the chances of entering the zone. And they start coming more and more in bursts for 2-3 rounds then maybe I do average for 4 rounds and boom. In the zone again. But it's dependent on map, opponents and teammates mostly. Also, do engage in physical activity. Move the body or else you might have 0 chances of it. If the body is calm so will the mind be when playing.
Also great video and love you content.
For me I hear everything way better, see better and it feels like time goes slower.
for me is the same but , big but is for me i have higher chances entering "the zone" when i get high, idno why i tried it many times with or without it, maybe its just coincidence when im high i have also big luck with teammates, like everything is so simple, i can play way better with mary, i hate it but at the same time i love when i feel it happening
im sorry about my english and for the grammar
Just a hypothetical here. What if a professional cs team decided to practice meditation, were able to enter the flow state 100% of the time and just used simple callouts? So, they'd take a slight hit in mid round comms and game sense but they'd be absolute killing machines and there would be no mindset difference between 0-15, 15-0, 7-7 and 0-0. How do you think they'd do? Would it work?
@@ziwuri most pros are in the flow state most of the time
I have adhd and flow state is very ez to get into
Flow is technically "Ultra Instinct"
TheWarOwl - "You need have a challenging activity, and you need to be highly skilled at that activity. This allows you to enter a state of unconscious competence. Where you do it without thinking about it."
Yep sounds like ULTRA INSTINCT
Yeah
its that except the name is not fucking cringe
"I usually read all of the comments for the first 8 hours or so"... Why hello there WarOwl.
*watches video 9 hours after release lmao
To me, entering the zone is a heightened confidence that comes when you just feel good, when you know that "you've got it" - my favourite kind of zone to enter is the one where I don't get subconscious about my looks and I actually walk up and talk to strangers that I want to befriend / hook up with without second guessing myself even once, that means a lot to me especially since I've had social anxiety issues for most of my life.
In my experience you can enter the zone almost on command just by eating healthy and for me intermittent fasting and probably most importantly (for me atleast) walking or sitting posture. If I eat unhealthy food I feel bloated and when I feel bloated I think I look bloated and ugly, for me it's important that I go to events while not haven eaten anything or just having eaten something light like a small salad. If I force myself to walk confidently I really quickly start feeling confident, I probably look like an idiot but if I'm jamming out to some music in my ear buds and I'm obviously bopping along with it in my walk I feel a lot better and happier.
That's the zone for me - it applies to everything in life, video games and real life.
+rep nice comment buddy.
Very nicely put man. I definitely notice a difference in my play when I'm being a lazy unhealthy sack of crap vs going to the gym, sleeping well, etc.
Damn man, I've never related to something so much
I find i enter flow in social interactions most often for some reason
This was a good read.
Me when I realized after a long time of watching TheWarOwl that “I still have no closer” is a closer 🤯
Dude everyone already knew that
Edit: I mean he has 1.36 million subs. What did you think, that he hadn't had time to come up with a closer?
@@ziwuri Yeah you're right, but it's still a bit subtle.
@@vincentb5431 its really not. clever, but not subtle.
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@@ziwuri Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh
The lesson was not just about improving your gaming skills but tackling your everyday's life challenges too.
Every student enters flow state during a several hour long exam. At least those who prepared.
I don't think everyone but the people who really are interested in doing it without caring what other people are doing (most probably cheating) or other stuff. I also go in flow state when in exam not but no in every exam
every student enters flow state during procrastination slam mode
yes i can agree with this with or without prep maths exams have this effect
Cannot agree more
@@joelrobb125 i guss i got into flow state in todays math exam cause 2.5 hr passed i solved all the qeuastions and was like what already 2.5 hrs
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi actually coined the term "flow" for the people thinking he was joking
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"No constant teammate nagging you ...." : "AMIGO !"
WarOwl: Stay healthy
Also WarOwl: So the goal is tricking your mind into thinking that sitting in front of a computer screen for 12 hours while playing vidya is the only thing that matters
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As a musician, I only ever get into flow when I'm performing in front of a crowd. I can practice enough with a song to get it down with muscle memory, but flow doesn't come in unless there's stress, too. Too much stress can also ruin flow, too, so it has to be a perfect amount of stress.
Sometimes the right amount of stress is good
Not only good, necessary
Completely agree with this. Without some external pressure - whether from friends, a crowd, a lover, or a competitor - it is easy to just rest on your laurels and be content with your baseline performance. Knowing someone is paying attention allows you to focus and push your skills to their potential.
also a musician and can totally relate.
Tayoyo its like balancing a paperclip on water.
Ah yes, where a rear wheel drive car had 4WD acceleration they called this "Fujiwara Zone"
I unironically love the Initial D series :D
*keisuke left the chat*
@@TheFinePlayer ayyy same here.
@SharkTank and again.
The opposite of it is obviously s🅱️innala Vettel
I always experience flow when I play on my alt valorant account. So much so it's now higher ranked than my main. It comes down to not being stressed about rank or performance to me. I just play the game for fun and the heads line up.
Thank you so, so freaking very much! I've experienced flow state in the past but never searched about it and not knew it had a name. I heard about "the zone" and that was it. But I struggled for years to replicate that state of deep awareness and concentration, where time is meaningless and you feel like you have full control of what you are doing. I was beginning to give up, as if I'd never achieve that again. Thank you for giving it a name I can study.
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"dangerzone with amiiigo": *am i a joke to you?*
I'm an audio engineer, most projects I'm mixing/mastering that I don't have a personal involvement in usually wind up with me in the flow state. Something that helps me achieve this is that I have a space where I only work. I don't look at my phone while seated at my desk, the whole world around me doesn't exist while I'm sat down and working. Having your brain associate the location you're in with one task will greatly increase the chances that you'll be able to enter it. It's also important that every time you can't get back into flow state to take a break, whether it be 10 or 30 minutes.
100% can relate
Yup, I actually was about to write exactly the same thing
For me i entered "the zone" when playing LoL, i often do breathings before the game start, it calm my mind and let me focus on the game
. Its my rhythm before playing it makes me not think of negative thoughts and not easily distracted by flaming teammates.
And sorry for my bad english
I somehow am godlike in the first 10 games of ghe seazon i always win 8 9 or 10 of those games.. Idk how i enter the zone just then 😂😂😂then i'm again garbage at the game
This happens every time i code or write an essay. This happens occasionally in rocket league, cs, and rust. Ive berm aware of flow state for a while and my friends thought i was just crazy haha. Its useful bc i have lyme disease and flow state reduces the headache pain.
Do you collaborate with others on your coding projects? I read that coding while in a flow state might actually make the code less readable because what seems easy to understand in flow state might actually include leaps in logic that are hard to follow for others.
DerDude87 honestly yea... after im done the project ill look back on it a couple days later and it takes me a bit to figure out how i replaced myself with a pro. I wrote my own packet monitoring tool with really advanced filtering algorithms with 15 hours straight of code...
UGE time flies when ur coding
Navillion fr dawg
I was there when he pulled off the 1v4. Very Impressive.
Very Cool.
@@ne4073 Thank you Kanye,
@@Bigman-vd7gc Kanye East???
@@beetlenut6980 North*
@@zubairasif9405 ohh nice
I got him confused with south. I guess I was wrong.
When this video came out, I was in my studio working on an artwork and listening to a 14 hour audiobook, I was in flow state, the notification broke me out of it when my flow was particularly weak. Thanks for breaking my flow, warowl
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Yeah, our phones can be such a big distraction. Thankfully features like do not disturb exist.
Maybe turn off notifications? 😘😂
This happens to me in so many PVP games, thank you WarOwl, I thought I was just crazy but you put me to rest. Through the opening of my 3rd eye and in a constant state of REM sleep, I have ascended to true zen, the humors of life sprout within me now. My inner charkras, balanced, static yet dynamic , like a statue made of wind. My true, ataraxis.
Amen
I find myself having an absolutely outstanding game, aim, movement and min in perfect sync. Not missing a single shot. Pin point accuracy. And about a third of the time I feel completely disconnected. I can't properly jiggle, I feel like the mouse is heavy as a hammer, aiming feels impossible. I've noticed that what mostly influences this is my sitting pos. A 15° deviation from my standard and the game feels alien. Incredible.
I remember when i had my final assignment for school, they gave me 6 months to work on it but mid way through i didn't the direction i was going and stopped wanting to working on it, slacking was now the norm until months later while looking around on TH-cam i saw a video that inspired me, it sparked a fire inside, almost 1 month to delivery I contacted my teacher and said i was changing project, he had this worried look on his face but he trusted i would deliver on it, a few days later I scraped most of my current work and started on a completely different project ... times were rough since i always had trouble starting from scratch but i recycled bits of my old code to save time and i started working, after the first week my productivity skyrocketed, all of a sudden i didn't need think anymore, my fingers just moved as if it were magic, this lasted for 6 days, all i needed to enter the zone was to put some music on and open my IDE, i was one with the machine, my subconscious would takeover and i was nothing but a passenger along for the ride, it was the most amazing feeling, the project was done after 19 days of hard work and 1 day over the deadline but it was complete and i was happy with the work i had, in the end it was my most impressive work to date, i had learned a new programming language and it was the project that steered me into cyber security which is what i'm pursuing now as a career
wow
That souds amazing! Experieces like yours make programmig really a worthwhile activity
thats awesome!!
that is freaking awesome dude
Needed variation from the “CS:GO but”. Good vid WarOwl!
nah that series is some of the best content on youtube
Lol same
Syv I agree, but when you upload the same format 10 times in a row, it can get stale. That’d even be the case for SoloQ (even though with SoloQ it’d only happen after like 50 episodes)
yeah, those videos are great, but without variation it looses it's magic. I guess that's why most people are asking for a new SoloQ (althout I'm personally waiting for a new MM Academy)
"CS:GO but I enter the flow state"
ive entered flow before too. I play a certain game where the experience is very similar to game designing or making of a map. You really reminded me of the flow states ive been before when you mentioned you editing the video. I have often entered flow states while building the scenery of the map, where i would lose track of time and just get a lot of work done.
WarOwl, this video is really helpful, and not only aplicable to CS, or games, but to other activities like studying, reading, playing guitar, etc. Whenever I lose the compass of my attention to an untenable level, I come back here and take note. Thanks man, greets from Argentina.
i like how he just talks about "the zone" telling his story and maybe helping somebody else *without* 10min marks for ads + humor and video quality is amazing
actually im pretty confident that the ad mark has been lowered to 8 minutes
now you need 8min for double ads
really? not 3 ads thru this video tho
@SharkTank Wtf? I have seen you 4 times now telling shut up? Like what?
Also i know you are going to tell me to shut up
so SHUT UP
Too bad I got sponsorblock
I can usually enter the flow state after about 15 minutes, when doing my homework. But I find it hard to keep myself in that state. Usually I notice something like "Oh, I am halfway done! I should take a break now. " and then I would completly break my flow and get stuck.
I have the same problem. It takes me a while to even become productive but when I notice that I always think, "yeah, I'm being productive. I should reward myself to help keep this up." Then I break out of it
Yup
Omg just solved 100 maths questions in about an hour but exercise consisted of 150. Those 50 are left untouched for 2 hours now.
I only know that from tests and stuff... I'll admit it I have hardly done any homework in my schoolcareer
Same and u check the time on ur phone once and then realize youve watched a whole Netflix series
i think what heavily triggers the flow state is a "daily routine" once you have a routine and you love doing what you are doing its easier to get in the flow state. for me it was early morning jog that triggered the state for over 2 months consistently and then when i broke that routine things got messy , the tasks that i was easily able to within 2 hours , started to feel "boring" and i just couldn't finish what i started , thanks for making this video this is the thing i needed to start my early morning jogs again!!!
Flow is the best feeling ever. I've had it happen a couple of times when gaming, but it's much more common while I work on my hobby projects.
I'm a software developer (programmer) and when I enter flow state is when I'm the most productive I can be.
It happens most when you truly enjoy the activity you're doing, and it feels great. You forget your worries and you're just "there".
In the moment. Fully focused on the one task at hand.
I've entered the "zone" a lot when I was playing alone. I'm not blaming my friends for being a distraction or whatever but I felt more aware on what I'm doing in that moment alone. Of course I'm no s1mple when I play but it brings the absolute best in me.
Oh indonesian
same.. i somehow play better doing soloq, i know i can‘t relay on my mates and all the tips warowl gave during his soloq series for sure helped. When I play with friends and they flame me i take it more serious and it distracts more, makes me think negative and i play even worse.
@@alexanderthegreat11 same
I also usually play better when I play with out my friends. Idk why exactly but it’s true in my case as well.
@SharkTank I think I have made my point.
Warowl: posts something about hyperfocus while playing a game
Me, who is so immersed that I actually started getting tired when my in-game character runs for extended period: loses repeatedly, stuck in silver 1
Can i buy your silver 1 acc. Id pay 200€ and if steam acc. is worth more ill overpay
Con_R This isn’t the type of channel that fosters players you’re looking for.
@@constantinriedler6566 buying and selling accounts is against steam TOS. i hope you get banned :)
Omg i actually trolled so many people axaxaxa
@@constantinriedler6566 bruh. no.
This is quite helpful. Thank you, WarOwl
Thank you for the insight, WarOwl! I believe I entered flow-state yesterday while I was raiding AQ40 on classic wow. I just focused on doing my job, making sure I didn't do anything stupid, and hitting my abilities to the best... of my ability.
I have entered flow once in my 18 years of exitance. It was during some end of high school exams (the one that decides what collage/faculty/whatever you go) and it was with physics and my mother tounge, maths I kinda flopped. During the examination days for those 2 subjects it was only me and the paper (*funny story that I like telling you can skip it it's not important*. On physics I got slowed down by the calculations on one problem and right when I finished the exercise the teacher said "you have 30 minutes remaning" Ooo shit, was my reaction, one of my favourite songs that I was listening to while studing started playing and I have managed to finish the last problem in under 30 mins). I have been analysing for the past 4 months how I did it and it was schedule(like waking up at 6 taking a shower, have breakfast, NO PHONE), daily practice, long walks as a wind down and worry time after studying and thinking as little as possible about unnecessary things.
Must appreciate your effort typing this much and sharing your exp with us. For me, when the deadline nears me, I wither enter flow-state or the opposite, panic-state.
Get anime like vibes from this. Time slows down, focuses on paper, favorite song starts playing, grabs the pen, and just writes away.
Nobody:
WarOwl: How to achieve Ultra Instinct
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Is this supposed to be funny? I don't see the humourous part in the comment
The Simple Animator watch dragon ball z, then come back to this comment
@@gurka3141 super*
@@gurka3141 I watched like a season of it and know what he's talking about, and even then it's not funny. What, just because it says nobody: it's supposed to be funny? Saying nobody before the "joke" is a crutch for 8 year olds who can't comprehend humour.
dude, getting into the zone feels SO GOOD. It's happened to me like twice and it is AMAZING.
I think the reason I first subbed to you some years ago was because of the depth with which you analyze everything going on with the topic you’re covering. I’ve noticed a trend about my favorite TH-camrs and most of them don’t get my sub because of the specific content they’re uploading but because of the quality and effort and passion that creator displays. You could cover entirely different topics and I’d still watch the videos because I know you’d do a fantastic job making them
The first time I entered “The Zone”, I didn’t play for a while, and I think I just felt good returning to the good, and dropped a 40 kill faceit game against players who were better than me.
Yeah, it somehow gets you better when you take a break
I'm still a new player and yesterday i was bored af went into the death match got recked for the first game,
Self confidence was like you're better and boom flow state finished 2nd though also there were no cheaters because their flow state is everlasting 😂
@@taqiditoi.p594 yeah you right
@@taqiditoi.p594 Not always, only if you've actually been playing for a long time, and what you've practiced comes back to you when you return. That feeling, when you do the right thing without you even realising it, that's it.
Sometime when you play too much, your brain burn out. You need to take a break for like a while. When you get back you will feel very fresh. Just don't take a very long break tho or you will lose your touch
The thumbnail looks like he's questioning life choices.
XDD
Haha
midlife crisis
Flow state is an amazing feeling. It's almost like being able to see the future. You are so in tune with what's happening in the game that you know all the right moves to make and when too make them. I think It's easier for me to enter flow state when I'm just playing for fun with no expectations.
Keep kicking ass warowl. Great vid
It’s fun to watch someone smart rediscover the wheel. I don’t mean that to sound nearly as sarcastic as it does. Your description and suggestions are right on the money. That Wikipedia entry must be damned good. We (I’ve been a gamer, race car driver and psychology professor for 20+ years) have been studying “flow” or “the zone” for a long time. It’s challenging to study because it’s hard to “just do” AND it’s hard to study someone’s neurological and neurochemical responses while they’re playing basketball or football. Esports is a perfect venue for research since people sit still while doing “the thing”. A lot of the early research (before esports) focused on Olympic target shooters and race car drivers for the same reason. Also chess players. Consider the idea that for any sport there’s always going to be a finite, usually small number of people physically capable of being the best in the world. If you could teach someone to switch on the flow, that might be the key for them to rise above that small crowd. Google “performance psychology”, and David Eagleman if you haven’t already. Good content, sir.
WarOwl content is being approved by official academia. I have seen it all
@Gerhard Schöner All he was saying is that it is fun to watch someone discover more about a topic that he is already very familiar with; that does not mean he says he is a true expert or not, even though he does sort of imply it. You do the same, based on even less "evidence". What you are saying reflects the way I have experienced entering flow state in gaming and when I was a goalkeeper, but then again, it is not as detailed as it seems. I get where you are coming from, but the irony is that what you just said just makes you look exactly like the person you say you get annoyed by.
Gerhard Schöner lol I already wrote a thesis and a dissertation. I don’t need to do it again on TH-cam. You could also consider the possibility that not wanting to use WarOwl’s platform to advance my own agenda is a thing. Or that giving away stuff we can charge people for (again using WarOwl’s platform to push my own agenda) is something professionals avoid. You can rest assured though that if I did go into detail here, it would be specific, detailed and applicable, not some wandering rant with no real information in it.
But to answer your specific question, when they ask nicely, I coach people who drive race cars and people who shoot long range (500 meters+). Both include coaching zone performance/flow state.
Can you recommend any books or podcasts regarding "flow" or other general mindfulness/meditation books for someone looking to improve their mental health? Thanks :)
@@Sendtheshutter Thich Nhat Hanh "Peace is Every Step" is great for mindfulness/mental health. There's a book called "Mental Training for Peak Performance" by Steven Ungerleider that's pretty specific for flow/zone stuff. It's targeted more toward athletics. Also google K. Anders Ericsson and "deliberate practice".
TheWarOwl really got the essentials right in this video imo. The gaming angle for flow is really new, but I expect it's going to become an actual (lucrative?) specialty in psychology research and practice.
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ha look at warowl and his big brain
LOOOOL Nice one!
Love the video! I hope you make more videos like this, it is really interesting!♥️
Im so happy he made a video on flow state. Ive had it several times competing in rl and sports and even ca sometimes. You just feel this god like control and nothin matters. Your just vibin. I wanted to say my best tip for entering slow state is turning off that self critic voice. "Ah i should do this better" or "that better ". The person just gets in the way
That VSauce impression was spot on lmao
Also the Ksi reference
Finally, SoloQ is coming back
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This was a super interesting video! I actually really liked it, so thank you for that
Hey man,
loved the video.
I remember the PUBG video you're talking about, watched it multiple times, top notch video that one.
Love your content in general tbh, keep up the great work (I went from silver 1 to DMG and now taking part in University tournaments mainly from following your video tutorials)!
Can't thank you enough for all the help and the great entertainment,
Gabe
The longest I have been in a flow state was ahead of my Math Exam last year. I knew I was good enough to score 100% in it. I had three days, to prep, I started studying at 1 pm in the afternoon, and I just never took a break, I had my last year papers, I was solving every thing, I went to sleep at 1 am that day, and when I woke up at 7am that day I was in FULL FOCUS! I couldn't stop solving these problems cause My ability to solve them was so so satisfactory that it was almost addictive, but late at night I had some pain in my lower back, We went to hospital and they said that I accumulated a small kidney stone because I wasn't drinking any water, I stay at the hospital that night and went home at around 12pm. I was still high on that jinx, I did some problems but the medications makes you sleepy, So next day, I went to the examination center sleepy and I couldn't ace it. I left the exam hall half an hour early and just vomitted on the pavement. I did got 92% but I am still not satisfied. Yeah, from then I learned that I need to take care of myself.
Now, that I am in college studying some Information Techonology, I got high on the flow jinx yesterday when I was just coding and listening to music, but this time I had my water, I had my snacks and fruits beside me. So hey, I just finished some project that day. Felt goood. :3
What is your advice to enter this state? While im studying at home I find it hard to get my concentration and keep going...
DeltaSlayer adderal
@@deltaslayer1132 It's a skill you got to train, and it sucks in the beginning. Make sure you eliminate your distractions, and *grind* and eventually you'll get better at it, there's no "1 easy trick"
@@deltaslayer1132 find a challenging task and being skilled at it at the same time. it's like solving problems feel so good that you can't go do anything else. just delete every distraction but that can be more challenging than the task you want to deal with🤭😂
I've done a lot of 24 hour hackathons (code competitions) and I'm always chasing that level of productivity. I keep my water bottle on the right side of my desk and usually some kind of trail mix or other snack on the left side and then just zone out with my headphones. I've found that I can't reach that mental state unless I've already been working on something for a couple hours and intend to keep working on it with the goal of achieving as much as I can within a certain time period. I usually struggle with school assignments because the goal is never "work for this many hours" it's more along the lines of delivering a certain product, but for things like hackathons or personal projects I'm always insanely productive. It's like the opposite of being goal oriented, goals just make me pace myself given the time period I have.
You lose your groove when you notice you're in it
just never pay attention and hope to god it works
That’s ok as long as you can get it back easily
I don't. I've been able to magnify its effects on more than a few occasions.
this isn't true, its the same as how once u notice a placebo it still happens
you only lose it if you are afraid to lose it. Trying so hard not to lose it that you actually stop beeing in the flow state.
Soo true! I recently finished this book called IKIGAI and that book has everything you need to know about Flow. Like how to achieve, what to do, what not to do. Before I knew what the flow was, I used to do my favorite work (learning animation) and never realized how time flew. After reading this book, it all started appearing in the picture. It is a must read for those people who want to know more and like to read books.
Will add that book to my list of reading, thnaks for the tip.
HEY GUYS WE MUST BULLY WAR OWL QUICKLY BEFORE HE GROWS TO LOVE HIS AUDIENCE!!
That nuke game was one of the most entertaining games I watched in awhile, I was there for the whole stream, and I couldn't pull myself away from the phone, until it finally ended in OT, great vid, great game, great streams. Keep it up Mr. Warowl, you're an inspiration.
yeah it went into like triple overtime, was a crazy game!
VOD link please!!!
it seems like whenever I watch his videos I always play better the next game
@@electrospeeder9692you get motivated to do good the next game. you don't necessarely have to remember and implement the things he says, you just feel like you actually can do those things. that's why if im having a bad game i might call timeout and just watch a yt video of a pro playing, a compilation of great moments and stuff like that. then i tell myself that i can do the same and it sometimes works. also emotions. control them. never ever be toxic towards your teammates and never ever think the opponent is too good. you can think and say that they/he is good, but never better
EDIT: I;m not a scientist
@@rudolfszvaigznite9583 ^
Advice: Practise so much that any kind of anxiety is gone, even in a 1v5 clutch, and you're on the losing team, at 14-15. When i played CSGO ( haven't played in a while ), i would always get anxious when i was in a clutch situation, and most of the times i would distract myself with said anxiety and lose almost everytime. When i was in the "flow state" after playing a couple of games, or a couple days in a row, the anxiety was still there, but it would be easier to focus on the game !
Granted this only happend if the games i had played before went well. If they went bad, i would be with the mindset of "it is just one more loss", and i would die because i wouldn't care :/
Yup, I agree practice is everything. Especially practicing situations you are likely to encounter that give you anxiety. For example 1v5s, it's like taking a practice test in preparation, to get the feel, for the real test.
nah if im in a clutch situation i just throw it cuz i know ive lost it lol
I feel the exact opposite when im in a clutch situation. All pressure is off - my team has failed miserably and left me to die. Now it's my time to show them how easily it can be done. Then I levitate off my chair and enter the flow state.. or get one deage'd peeking the next angle.
For me the trigger point is when my team (including me) is playing so shit and enemy is completely destroying us.After some time i get so pissed i dont even get angry anymore my mind goes “Alright lets wait for next round”then i know im in the zone
Related to this I'd also add to master the pistols, so many people don't and end up all flustered when their clip gets low. I've seen so many people miss AWP shots against enemies with like 5hp all because they were too anxious to change weapon land one hit. Knowing you always have a decent side arm as back up, and that you can get some good kills with it massively helps you remain calm and react in a strategic way.
I have this quite often making music. Quickly 6-10 hours pass, almost peeing my pants and haven't given eating a thought. The main thing stopping me to get into the flow state are uncontrollable factors like issues with my gear or software. So eliminating friction is absolutely the way to go. Make sure your setup is good and reliable and have some decent teammates.
I love going into the flow state, it makes me feel so good at the game.
I very much remember the video you mentioned. It was amazing to see and I loved it.
I find myself in flow state when ever I code and there is a task that is exactly slightly harder then my current coding level. That way I am completely engaged but never bored which is a cycle that is just perfect for productivity. I don't think you can always control it because most of the time you do not control the task you are working on, some tasks are just to hard or so easy you are getting bored by doing them . Anyway, as usual great video Brent, love your content!
I remember 1 time that I experienced was when I used to play cod zombies obsessively I went 4 hours in a game with out going to pee, eat or anything
the charm of call of duty
Only 4 hours?
You gotta bump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers
@@Jexy00 ikr only 4, like those are pussy hours
I can recall one time where I entered the zone, I was playing ecl division 2 and I think what helped me enter the zone is a very simple thing I realized while playing this match. I realized ecl division 2 is where I belonged, when you play csgo you often feel like you aren't good enough or sometimes the opposite, well that time it didn't happen (and I kept that feeling as long as I played in ecl). I guess feeling relieved and feeling like you deserve to be there after all the efforts you have put in the game might be a trigger of the zone.
omfg when you started playing starcraft music when defining flow that just sent me off this planet
I often enter "flow" with singleplayer perfection games, like Absolute Drift
That was me when i first bought car x drift racing. Spent the whole night in a single map doing laps after laps.
Agree, because the game only let you focuse on yourself.
That used to happen to me in Binding of Isaac or Dead Cells! The flow state is seriously addicting, it's an illusive mixture of adrenaline and unmeasured productivity that is capable of making you forget about anything else in life.
That one mission on MW3 with the silenced sniper where you have to kill everyone without being noticed. That mission is my ultimate single player flow state.
@@dewie06 all ghillied up is my fav cod "flow state" mission!
I've only entered flow a few times while gaming. But since I started writing it happened for a good 3 hours. Writing my 2 best chapters ever.
Its happened to me for a few minutes in a clutch situation in csgo in like 2 matches
5:10 lol that "ROO" gave me a good chuckle. never change
that last part of the video made me come down here and comment! love your videos!
My Friend recommended you and said you would make brilliant csgo content .he was so right
Flow state for me is something I’ve been training to get into at will, osu! The rhythm circle game is my favourite game at the moment which requires insane amounts of uninterrupted concentration, the moment you think of something apart from the game you can miss. Counter strike has periods of getting to positions ect which can allow for loss of concentration due to the relaxed nature of those periods. For me, meditating daily has allowed me to better understand how to induce flowstate. I don’t believe flow is a feeling of overwhelming confidence but rather a detachment from negative thought with a focus on positive thought like “no worries I got this” vs “that was a terrible play”, the ability to detach your actual performance from your emotional state will infinitely increase your consistency and ability to reach this state of focus.
The moment you mentioned osu i was like "Oh yeah, osu!" Thinking back that's for sure the one activity where it would trigger often. Felt like the biggest badass whenever it happened as well.
I think arcade like games are really good at triggering it since they are hyper focused and require perfect execution if you're chasing top score. (rhythm games, racing games like TrackMania, bullet hell etc.)
once you've played long enough you can talk while playing the game
@SharkTank that hurted my feelings
@SharkTank maybe... thanks for your opinion sharktank
@SharkTank, have you considered the fact that you, replying "SHUT UP" to every single comment on this thread might be indicative of a problem?
With you?
I guess not...
It happens often to me when I'm coding (software development). In CS it happens usually when I get the AWP and I'm playing with friends I trust. It starts happening when I'm holding a pixel and getting kills which helps building confidence. I think it is a mix of skills + confidence/trust + environment.
Fantastic video Warren, this timing may be an act of fate. I'm trying to be a writer and part of that is writing more. I wrote something a couple of months ago that I'm super proud of but not quite ready to show off. I wrote it all in one sitting. I didn't know it until now, but I was in flow state. Everything I've written since then has been subpar. I've noticed that I almost start entering a flow state around 1am, I get a massive craving to write, but of course I'm trying to sleep so I can't, but I have great ideas that I usually forget in the morning. Anyways that's been my experience. Fantastic video, thanks a million.
When Warren showed up I thought 100% we were going to get an audible ad.
"Flow State"
otherwise known as *God Mode* , or *[insert pro player name here] mode*
*Inserts woxic*
whatever you do don't go in to the m0E mode....
ZywOo mode
NiKo mode as long as hes not IGLing :D
Ultra Instinct
Having a shit day @ work where I've been mostly unfocused, tired ...
After taking a break and watching your vid I remembered the 'The Zone' I've been encountering on CS:GO so I kinda focused similarly on my work... and it worked lol
Thanks WarOwl, your guides extend beyond the CS:GO realm 💪
Flow State is something that I'm aware of but only now that you bring this topic I can realise some plays that I made and actually entered The Zone automatically. Most of the time that happens when I'm in a certain situacion like 1v5, 1v4, etc. and I have nothing but my aim and my headset to trust, the reflexes and muscle memory go to 11. I used to think some plays from pros was impossible but when you enter in that state you can't even celebrate if you win because you won't realise what you have done.
Like saying “I have entered The Zone” can increase the morale of your team...
hey... let’s try that
"we have the best comment section of youtube"
some random guy: fek warowl
@SharkTank Umm... That was a Joke..
Unless you're just calling this guy as an idiot for no reason in particular, in which case, Have a Good Day!
Mihir Bhole
I think he's just being negative, he's been replying "SHUT UP" on multiple comments for a bit.
@SharkTank if only you knew what irony meant...
Pro tip: Don't be that guy.
fek warowl
@@ziwuri
he did the funny
Your awesome man! I really like your humor! And your editing skills! 😂
I think the your comment about not having any distractions was really good! My own tip to getting in to the flow (and away from distractions) is to have 1-3 things to truly focus on per game/thing you want to be good at. These things can be like (for cs) aim placement, positioning, peeking, spray control, etc. It should be stuff you normally aren't very good at. Also (as long as nothing dramatical happens) you shouldn't switch these things to focus on mid game, because then it doesn't matter if you would have chosen four or five things to focus on. This is because if you focus on too many stuff you won't be focusing on anything. If you already have a set plan to work with I think this keeps you from getting distracted from everything else and therefore easily get into a state of flow. I''ve done this when getting my drivers liscense, competing in other sports and school and I think it works really well
"Hey WarOwl, Warren here" made me laugh so much
Your standards are quite low
@@shreyasrao6515 And your grammar is quite weak aswell.
@@jaelpikner9872 Typed too fast I guess
there's literally no standards for laughing ignore this loser
Wow, been ages since the last Vsauce upload, didn't know he got into csgo.
I thought exactly the same
I really like it when you put music from the Starcraft II soundtrack in the background :D
thanks for this video, i'm not just gonna implement it on my csgo but mostly also on my grad project 😭😭💕✨
When WarOwl started to talk about how non-toxic the comments section is, I sorted to comments by newest first and the top one was "you have a big forehead" lmao
Well, that's just the truth...
@SharkTank here you are again...
Warowl: and you need to be highly skilled at that activity
me: oh noooo
Flow comes along when I'm solving a really difficult programming issue or developing a feature. Time really flies fast and my fingers just move on their own. I can visualize the entire system in my head. It's sooooo good
I think that flow is just when you have complete control over your emotions. In tricking, there is a lot of mental barriers (cause yes, sending a backflip or a cork for the first time is scary). Personally, I'm doing the start of the trick over and over while visualising the end in my head, and the more I do it, the more I'm focused on the trick itself, so much that I forgot that I'm scared and go like "f**k it, I know how to do it" and just send it (that's also why mastery of the skill is kinda required). That's flow state. (I also found out that for me, it's much
easier to enter the Zone while I'm really tired cause I can't focus on 2 things anymore anyway, but obviously, this tips is more useful for cs than tricking)
*sorry if my english is not perfect and greetings from France !*