Once (after college exams) I played A LOT of CS (like 400 something hours),and that timeline I didn't had anything to worry or think and at that time,I went from Silver 2 to Gold Nova 3,since then I fell back because of exams etc.(mg1 at rank btw) But,I've Improved the most at that time. My suggestion:Be confident.Don't think about bad or stressing stuff and if you do enter the zone,do not distract yourself,since it is the best time to learn.

Broo I got recommended this vid after going into zone myself! I clutched 4 times, one time it was an ace clutch. I hit some very cool headshots and I carried my friends, which some were 3 ranks higher than me. Sadly we too lost that game, one my friend got tilted and left because of another friend who rushed party with revolver and popped balloons (we played overpass) and we played 4v5. As WarOwl once said, he would always take a whole good team over one hero who carried others.

I think you can enter flow state by staing late at night bc wen your brain is tired it dosen foucus on the envoierment so you can be more concentrated on the game that happend to me kinda allways

VSauce of csgo

Wanna go into flow? I don't know how to. But the precondition is, you have to aim just enough your current skill level, to push just slightly beyond your limits.

I think i've entered the zone, many, many times but i can only remain into it for about 10 rounds, when i hit tab, if i see i am playing very well i tend to get nervous and stop focusing.

unbind tab

My phone is about shut down

Nice

Just went into one. M4A4 Domination.

This is basically just ropz always

I was in flow. I just killed the entire enemy ten person team in casual with a zues and mp7!

Back in the days of 1.6 armed with a scout and a degule on de_dust watching under pass as a T while my team tried to break through overpass I reached GLS (God like state) perform a full team take down. If I saw one, he was dead. twitch headys, beautiful movement and what seemed to be prophesized preordained quick changes. My first realisation of what you call flow. There were many more to follow. Nice content. Ty 4 teh up7o4d x

During 2019, I got really into Mordhau and managed to work my way up to the top 100. I got extremely good at the game, so good, that I could read Twitch chat, respond to people chatting, and win my engagements without thinking about the combat too much. It's definitely a unique feeling, when you do end up getting your ass kicked and you stop paying attention to your surrounding. You get a kind of "tunnel vision" on your monitor and you have a hyper-sensitivity to what is happening onscreen. In Mordhau, when I got super focused, I stopped paying attention to chat and would do super insane moves in the game, things I wouldn't normally do because I wasn't thinking, I just did. Getting to that point is very difficult though, because it's easy to write it off as "the enemy is just good" but if you have confidence in yourself, you can say "I can beat them." which you likely will. I believe that's what you didn't add in, the factor of your own confidence. In CS:GO, there's so many people who get headshot and write it off as "they're cheating" instead of saying "wow, that guy is good!", so you've already given up by then. But if you simply start playing around what they're doing, you'll get into the thought of "this is winnable, if I push myself a little harder, I can win!" But you did a good job of explaining everything else. ^-^

2:36 i am a Hungarian so yeah..... I can confirm that

On aim_botz I average 90kpm with default settings (90°), few days ago I felt different entering the map and hit 104kpm on same settings. Best feeling ever.

I have played many different types of games and I may have entered this state multiple times in different games. Unsure whether its just bad opponents, luck, or me actually playing well. I do feel like sometimes my reaction times, aim and decision making are better than others. And whenever I reflect back on those good games I get really frustrated when I can't perform as well as I had. I don't like performing poorly more than losing a game. I don't like dragging my teammates down cause of my performance.

Nobody pointed out the Vsauce refrence?

thanks for making such great videos!

Man i think i am in constant flow. I can't think a lot of the time and feel like a brain dead zombie almost every day

Lmfao love the "Micheal" mimic 👌

I’m going to have nightmares from the way you pronounced that hungarian person’s name...

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I know the exact feeling you described. I had it while playing as well, but it wasn't just that. I had it while studying or while drawing and also while editing videos. It didn't happen often but when it did I felt invincible and was just going on and on and on and it was awesome

It's also important to not flatten the meaning of the term 'flow' with using it as a synonym for tunnelvision or other concentration terms I think. It's something else, and you will know when it happens. Pretty happy to know now what that feeling was all the time :)

As a Taoist the flow state is essentially you becoming the act. Acting through non action. I reccomend the Tao Te Ching by Laozi its spiritual but the spiritual aspects dont have to be taken literally if you are scared of breaking your own religion.

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'm a simracer and consistency is probably the most important thing there, when you enter the flow you're just on another level

This happened to me yesterday, and my power supply broke mid game

Is his eyes green?

WarOwl, is FlowState linked with sleep deprivation?

Living a healthy life is the key to get the Flow. Starting at 7 hours of sleep.

yesterday i entered flow state, 180º degress turns to 1 tap an enemy felt reallyyyy goood

every time i watch warowl i think im kinda improving

I remember just a few weeks ago I was writing a song and it was already 1 hour in a blink of an eye (never finished the song cos I don't have any more inspiration to write about but I'll get there)

my advice would be mindgames.gg

Flow state games are insane.

That discount vsauce was hillarious.!

Play with people who is better than yourself thank me later

Mr WarOwl you need to check out Elliot Roe! I am an online poker player who also has about 3000 hours on CSGO. Please check out the work Elliot Roe does, particularly his A Game Masterclass (on RunItOnce) it is truly the most life changing thing for mental game you will ever study

the best advice is to read original book “The Flow”. Another advice is not drinking coffee, but get a huge cup of tea instead. Also making it last for 11hours is a rare but harmful thing. It’s better to make it a habit. Like exercises and meditation.

last place I’ve expected to encounter Chicksentmihai’s Flow State. My respect just doubled. Amazing video

I had 1 flow that I can remember. coded my game 10 hours straight

same

when im in dicord with friends it sorta happens we all laughing having a good time and without really realizing i aim correctly and get those headshots.

I once won $600 in a Fortnite tournament and I later realised that I was in flow state the entire 3 or 4 hours what it lasted. I hit every shot, I was playing in my potential, didn't and could not tilt. It was such an amazing experience. Sure I've experienced flow many times before and after the incident, but it was so strong in the tournament.

I once got in the zone in a gold valorant game and they thought I was tenz

Bro I started watching you in 2013 playing csgo and started playing , i became global in 2016 you had the same exact bot movement that you had in 2013 , i left the game, now even in 2020 you still have bot movement

Hey can you give me some advice i wanna also get more healthier and i dont really know how and where to start .

I think I can't be in a constant flow state, just in kind of short bursts of hyper concentration where a develop incredible attention to what I am doing, even when I don't know what in the actual fuck is happening. Like, it just is.

war owl hy this is phehello here Ic3Cr34mM4n on csgo dude i need your help like asap i have been playing csgo for the past 2 months man and nothing is working like i watch all your videos i try and implement them nothing is working please help out i would appreciate

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

Question: I have a teammate that constantly calls me out on my bad plays critisises my miss-thrown smokes and Molly’s. I’ve asked him to talk to me after the game because I’ve found that as the game goes on I get worse and worse, he still callls me out and we end up arguing, I’m trying to get better but I can’t. I’d play with other people in a 5 q but problem is that I play with him and 4 other people and most of the time the 6th person I play wingman with so I’m kinda stuck with this teammate. What should I do?

I'd say if you have a coach/ manager/ IGL ask for their support on the matter. If you don't have any of those things then keep asking him to save his criticism for post match and definitely send him this video to help him understand. Hope it works out for you man.

franzj at all times

What's the link to his favorite pubg edit in the video??

https://youtu.be/uDG6DpN1Jlc

i enter flow state in SSBM Netplay and tournament matches. best achieved by just simply focusing on the game at hand and the knowledge and tools you have

Only entered flow state a handful of times. But that feeling is so addictive. That and I actually destroy the opponents when my team need a hard carry. Too bad I'm not consistent XD

I sometimes achieve flow when I’m programming, and I’ve definitely realized that hunger disappears when that happens. The only other time I get in the zone like that is when I’m cooking. There’s so many things going on and different timings to hit and the thinking part of my brain just shuts down and I start doing it. That’s a great point about flow state not always being a good thing, though. I’ve gotten comments from people that I’m not fun to be around when that happens. They say I’m rushing, or acting too urgently. It’s so fun though!

I always thought this is something everyone knows about. We usually say someone is in a mode.

Use the flow Luke...

You can get into flow without being good

That's what my father tried to teach me to do while studying. Now that i'm in the second year of uni I can do that freely but now instantly. I have to grind at least one week of mediocre concentration to get to that peak where i can study 20 pages to 40 in a hour. But if you do this all day you will get better and better at concentrating a long time on a boring/difficult task. training is key

I had experienced flow in cs go and when driving but since i had a crash i have issues even concentrating when driving

Hello, one of the things about watching war owl is that interesting i find myself talking like him. A lot. Without even noticing.

i remember entering flow state all the time as a kid idk what happened anymore something might've changed in me mentally or psychologically speaking

The only time I remember entering flow was actually the purest desensitizing thing ever. I was playing CS and I remember I kept saying "You keep missing, you keep missing you keep missing", so it was like I was sharpening my aim mid-game with the self talk getting more and more increasingly loud and annoying. It got the point when that voice was lessening because I was landing my shots, and the moment that happened was when I entered the flow. I was badly self-talking myself so much, I entered flow and stopped talking badly about myself. Bruh.

Yes this was amazing! Please keep making more videos! 👽

2:25 otz?

I pour hours into my golf game every summer away from school. One day this past Summer after feeling like I was not improving at all, I entered the zone and shot 1 under par for 18 holes (4 hours of unbroken concentration). This is significant because at the time I played off a 10 handicap (meaning on average I shoot ten over par every round). I was aware that it was happening but still I didn't jinx myself or make a mistake as a result of the thoughts. It was a great experience just thought I'd share in the context of the video :)

TheWarOwl looks like he's always upset at us

Vsauce mode

The way you talk is so beautiful

nice

I'm having a heavy flow month

I had so much late work and 6 tests to study for and I had one day to do it all I was extremely emotional I was angry at myself and at my teachers if I failed that was it for my junior year of high school but when I told myself it’s ok you can get this all done. I suddenly entered flow state you have to have an extremely difficult task at hand for you to enter it I enter it when I’m emotional like the example above so what works for Warowl won’t necessarily work for you. I’m not saying he is wrong but I’m just stating an outlier. Good day to all!

experienced flow state a bit ago

I also feel like motivating music that you once for example heard while you did a really good performance or will trying to improve helps the enter flow state. But then turn it off again or it will distract you.

lol you look like my history teacher but with a sense of humor

Turns out he left himself logged into his alt account where he plays some *interesting* games and went against people who had just installed the game.

3:17 Holy shit this guy actually used Lash's theme from AW2 Black Hole Rising I had to double-check because I couldn't believe WarOwl played AW2. Respect!

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.

Know what you mean, is like past getting kills, its actually where the fun beggins😀

I can count the number of times i've gotten into that flow state on one hand Once in a college jazz recital where I had to take a solo as a guy who never takes solos. Let what I learned come out as smoothly as I ever have for a solo. Once at an actual show where the first half of the set was personally disappointing. I blocked out everything that wasn't the music, and turned my whole night around Once in the recording studio where the band was in the room with me while I was tracking my parts. This one was where the producer/engineer absolutely nailed their role and forced the other members out of the room. Just us two in there and I was able to lose myself in the four songs I had to record that day. The last time was when I was playing Dirt Rally 2.0 and after 2 mediocre stages changed from my speakers to my headphones and forgot all about everything that wasn't the co-driver calls, the car, and the road. I finished the last seven stages of the online event in the top 200 where I usually placed just inside the top 1000.

From my experience I enter flow state in two situations commonly. 1. When making music 2. When playing Beatsaber

5:42 Whether they be a nagging thought, or a nagging thot.

Almost a week in of being bad for no reason

you hav mega 4head

I was playing casual back in 2016 and it was Mirage. SwaggerSouls was doing his "shoutcasting" on stream and I killed him as he tried to rush A, I grabbed his safari-mesh ak. my whole team died without trading any kills as I had solo'd A by myself with bomb down. I believe it was a 1 v 6 when my last teammate went down. I finished the round (winning) of course. Then I proceeded to do another insane clutch 1 v 10 on Cobblestone. Yes I know it was casual but it was still fun as all hell. After my son was born I hadn't played CS for about 6 months or so (he was born late 2017) and after I had seen C9 win the Major in 2018 I knew I wanted to play some comp again. So I got on with a few of my old friends I used to paly with all the time. They welcomed me back assuming I was probably gonna need them to carry me. I entered that flow state once again. off a force buy 2nd round on Nuke T-side. P250 clutched 1 v 4 (1 v 3) post bomb plant. Then immediately kept that pace and one the map. The very next map we played was Overpass. T-Side. 1 v 4 Ace clutched pistol round. Wone that map as well. I have had plenty of these (flow states) growing up with Video games and when I used to play Basketball in school. First video game I remember was Socom II on PS2. Thus the 1st game to get me into competitive shooters. Too many good memories when feeling that flow state.

This was it then

2:22 my man turned into Vsauce

so that's what it is, thanks WarOwl

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.

Damn i love watching WarOwl. Such a wholesome person!

When he said the zone My mind:JOJO

10 years of YouTube and this poor man still has no closer. Someone... anyone... make a closer.

Tyvm for content. Liked, subbed, commented x

this can be applied to any competitive shooter, i was trying to get into flow in siege , i think if you remove all distractions and get enough caffeine you can get into flow pretty easily also i remember i had like 180ms reaction time instead of 230, 240

Flow state is literally the ultra instinct mode

I have 2k hours in r6 and I sometimes just play rounds without thinking at all, and then after wards, I’m like oh wow epic we won

How to get good at CSGO? *laughs in coach*

What's mot impressive is the fact that you were able to hold on to "flow state" for 11 straight hours. The max I can ever maintain it is roughly 45 minutes. I'm in a house with 3 different roommates and it is impossible to hold onto flow state for longer then a match of CS. Though I have learned how to induce flow state somewhat effectively (works probably 40-50% of the time when I try to induce it), I mainly use it to help me study for University and for when I need to crank out papers or articles. It also can happen when I'm practicing music or singing, though I have no idea how to induce it in a musical setting and it seems far more random than when I'm trying to "zone in" for gaming or for University.

You are like Vsauce but for csgo

Even though I don’t play CS:GO, I did hit flow state in game today while on apex. I won like 7 - 8 games today during my session, even winning 3 games in a row at one point which is just crazy because just yesterday I was struggling to even get one win, after playing so poorly for some reason.