In the Zone

What it means

So absorbed in what you are doing that it starts to feel effortless.

Where it comes from

Psychologists call the same state flow, a term Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi introduced in the 1970s after interviewing people about when work stopped feeling like work. Athletes had already named it the zone.

The puzzle it came from

In the Zone was the answer to the Phrasicle of November 10, 2025. The clue read In the ____, and the words came out of a grid where every neighbouring pair makes a two-word phrase.

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