Hello and welcome to The English We Speak,
where we explain phrases and expressions used by fluent English speakers so that you can use them too.
I'm Feifei and here with me is Becca.
How are you doing, Becca?
Hey Feifei, I'm doing well, thanks.
I've had a very productive morning.
I finished lots of tasks and made a to-do list for the afternoon.
I feel like I've entered a flow state pretty early in the day.
Yes, you seem to have been very busy.
But Becca, what do you mean by a flow state?
The phrase flow state gained popularity on social media.
A lot of young people use it as part of their everyday language.
When we enter a flow state, we feel that we are fully focused on something.
It's a kind of mental state where we're fully concentrated on whatever we're doing.
And because of that, we feel like time moves more quickly.
We might not think about anything else other than what we 're doing and we might do it
more skilfully and easily as a result.
That's why you feel like you've had a very productive morning.
Do you enter a flow state often?
Not very often.