Once again, I take inspiration from Sadhguru’s “Inner Engineering”, where he quotes the great Nijinsky on dancing:

“There is no way I can ever do it. When Nijinsky is not there, only then it happens.”

Above all, this is the meaning of the flow state. When truly in flow, you are liberated from yourself. This is the reason why it is commonly considered the peak human experience. It should not be confused with merely working hard or thinking – thinking is based on memory, which is what constitutes what you consider your personality, what you wrongly identify as the “self”. When you work without that self being present, you can enter into awareness rather than thought, and then the magic can happen…And when you can do this with every task, no matter how boring or onerous, my guess is that you are pretty close to ultimate freedom.