Can’t believe no one has said “flow state” yet.

I wait tables, and I’m damn good at it. When everything goes just right on a really busy shift, it’s common for experienced waitresses to hit flow state and it’s one of many addictive patterns that keeps people, especially people with ADHD, in this job.

For those unfamiliar, flow state is a qualitative shift in consciousness that increases awareness of task-related stimuli and decreased awareness of irrelevant stimuli while speeding up reaction time, draining away uncertainty, and making every small success feel like it’s propelling you forward. It’s got some of the energy of an adrenaline rush without the comedown — flow state gracefully fades out without a crash. It’s like you just became more efficient, everything you need is right to hand, and triaging and prioritizing the subtasks in front of you becomes effortless.

It is the second-best part of my job, even better than the feeling of genuinely helping people.

Excuse me for my English. Approximately one and one half meters. Smaller highs are very ordinary but higher highs scare me

Fresh clear water when you’re alarmingly thirsty.

Fixed a tricky bug.

What’s my favorite high?!

non-drug

Aight imma head out

When the code finally works, the computer issues are fixed, the kitchen is cleaned.

Sex

When I finish doing a lot of chores or one big one!

When a recursive function I wrote works perfectly first try

Lifting weights close or to failure.

High ?

Reaching the cloud-base with a paraglider, especially in weak-days where you really need to fight to stay in the hair and fight for every meter of altitude

The goosebumps you get from that part of a song

Shikantaza meditation So smooth

Listening to music, especially while drawing and getting to reflect on how much got done in-between every song. It’s one of the rare times we feel focused, even if only for minutes at a time. - Tabitha (ey/it)

Negative ions