What I'm about to say might be absurd, but I've found this to be true of me playing computer games. I'll use Civilization II as an example -- I used to play Ci

What I'm about to say might be absurd, but I've found this to be true of me playing computer games. I'll use Civilization II as an example -- I used to play Civilization II quite a bit, and occasionally I did absurdly well. If it ever got to that point and I paused to look at how good I was doing, I would then get out of the flow and be worried about messing up the game, worried if I was doing everything optimal, etc. I would inevitably end up not doing as well as I would have if I just kept on playing as normal.