From Rock Wall to Flow State: Why I Built FlowTimer Pro

I've been rock climbing for over a decade, which means I've spent roughly 3,650 days thinking about falling. Not in a morbid way—well, sometimes in a morbid way—but in the way you think about anything that could kill you if you mess up badly enough.

Here's what nobody tells you about climbing: it's not really about the rock. It's about your brain shutting the hell up for once.

When I'm on a wall, my mind doesn't wander to the seventeen unread work emails sitting in my inbox like digital tumbleweeds. It doesn't spiral into existential dread about whether I'm wasting my life or if I remembered to pay my electric bill. There's no mental real estate available for the usual neurotic chatter because every neuron is laser-focused on not becoming a cautionary tale.

It's the only time my brain works the way I want it to.

But the moment my feet hit the ground? Game over. The focus evaporates like morning fog, and suddenly I'm back to being a regular human with the attention span of a caffeinated goldfish.