Without flow, none of this would have been possible. The pattern recognition and information chunking that took place in Switzerland would not have led to instinctive behavior in Chicago. Muscle reaction times would have been slower, intragroup trust weaker. Neither the spotlight attention needed to know when to pull nor the future prediction required to determine which direction to turn would have been in the offing. Panic would have swamped the system and Suicide Corner would have earned its namesake.
