Focus and the ability to stay on a task aren't the same thing as flow. Flow is much rarer than focus because for evolutionary reasons it has to be - flow is ac

Focus and the ability to stay on a task aren't the same thing as flow. Flow is much rarer than focus because for evolutionary reasons it has to be - flow is action without a lot of the self-monitoring that's necessary for learning. When you're in a knife fight, you'll flow 'cause learning isn't job one, surviving is job one. Learning a task so well that you can dispense with further learning also gets you to flow; but only a fool wants to get to that flow despite NOT actually having mastered the task.