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What's Going on in the Flow State?
In the flow state, when you're sparring, your hand just goes up for the block and your strike just goes through the empty space. There's this tremendous sense of grace, at one mint, super salient discovery and realness. But there's something else going on too: a phenomena called implicit learning. And what it does is it results in you being able to track complex variables in a way, but you don't know how you came up with that knowledge. The things that make it adaptive make us subject to self-deception.