Time warps (slow or fast)Lose sense of selfIntense focusPerform at highest levelSeems effortless (flow)Internally satisfyingRegain larger sense of self

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Adapted from FLOW by Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi

Clearly it comes from a variety of sources

Is it repeatable?Can it be designed into your life?Could it be transported from one

activity to another?

Study of World Class Performers

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World Class AthletesTouring MusiciansHeart SurgeonsExtraordinary ExecutivesWarriors/Naval Aviators

550 World Class Performers

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dreamdream

WORLD CLASS WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCEPERFORMANCE

Doug Newburg4

Not much happens without a dream. And for something great to happen, there must be a great dream. Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams. Much more than a dreamer is required to bring it to reality; but the dream must be there first.

Robert GreenleafServant Leadership, p. 16

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“When people come to work, it’s important that they be connected to a dream.”

Bill Gates, Fortune, 1/26/04, p. 124

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LD external What you wanted

to be or do. Externally

measured Achievements “Success”

LD internal How you felt at

your best. Internally

measured Experience “Success”

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How many times have you been asked by supervision at work how you want to feel?

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Natural Given Discovered or Built

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Is not a “goal” which is a “false dream” Is a connection between Resonance

producing activities and the Feelings that come at the peak

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Activities

Feelings

Much of the industrial era has focused on goal setting

Achievement orientation often drives our behavior at the expense of our emotional experience

Remember to remember how you feel is equally as important.

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OUTSIDE

INSIDE

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INSIDE OUT ENERGY AND RESONANCE

OUTSIDE-IN GOAL

ORIENTATION

CHOICE OBLIGATION

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“During a race, I never wear a wristwatch, and my bike doesn’t have a speedometer. They’re distractions. All I work on is finding a rhythm that feels strong and sticking to it.”

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Outside, 9/03, p. 122

External Life’s Dream

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Internal Life’s Dream

+ Poor but Happy

ENGAGED

- Lost and

Wandering Rich but Empty

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Easy speed (swimmer) Playing to win at the highest level Out of my chest Being at one with my

surroundings Creative, Intimate, Helping,

Athletic Peaceful, satisfied, alive Buoyant, connected mastery Light, unhurried, engaged and

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Bernie Goldberg:  You are not all that comfortable with all the hoopla...

Sharapova:  I understand it...I understand that part of it...I understand that this is just part of my life.  But do I like doing it all the time?  No.  I'd rather be on the court.

Goldberg:  So being back on the tennis court is more relaxing for you...

Sharapova:  It is a feeling that you have...that I have hit a ball since I was four years old...have I been in front of a camera since I was four years old?  No, that's not why I came to the U. S.  I didn't come here to be in front of a lens.  I came here to work my butt off.

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Dream

WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE

Doug Newburg, UVA

Preparation

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People ask me, “How do you play so well?” I practiced, intense “shedding.” If you’re willing to put in the time, you can do it to a certain level. Maybe I have a special talent that is intangible, but if you are willing to put in the time, you can really get it together.”

Bruce Hornsby

“Confidence doesn’t come from winning. Winning comes from confidence. And that confidence comes from hard work.”

Vijay Singh, Golf Digest, “From the Gallery,” June 2005. Singh won nine tournaments in 2004, was ranked #1 in the world, and is known for his extraordinary practice regimen, hours and hours a day.

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Dream

WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE

Doug Newburg, UVA

Preparation

EnergyCycle

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Dream

WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE

Doug Newburg, UVA

PreparationSetbacksObstaclesSuccesses

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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Samuel Johnson

DREAM

WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE

Doug Newburg, UVA

Preparation

SOS

“DUTYCYCLE”

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CHOICE OBLIGATION

In your experience, what proportion of people are fully engaged at work?

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We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires and comets inside of us. We are all born able to sing to birds and read the clouds, and see our destiny in grains of sand.

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But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it churched out, spanked out, washed out, and combed out. We get put on the straight and narrow and told to be responsible. Told to act our age. Told to grow up, for God’s sake. And you know why we were told that? Because the people doing the telling were afraid of our youth, and because the magic we knew made them ashamed and sad about what they had allowed to wither in themselves.

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After you go so far away from it though, you can’t really get it back, just seconds of knowing and remembering. When people get weepy at movies, it’s because in that dark theater the golden pool of magic is touched just briefly. Then they come out into the hard sun of logic and reason again and it dries up, and they’re left feeling a little heavy, and they don’t know why.

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The truth of life is that each year we get a little further from the essence that is born with us. We get shouldered burdens, some of them good, some of them not so good. Things happen to us. Life itself does its best to take that memory of magic away from us. You don’t know it’s happening until one day you feel like you’ve lost something… and you’re not sure what it is. It’s like smiling at a pretty girl, and she calls you “sir.” It just happens.

From “Boy’s Life,” Robert MacCammon

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DREAM

Breaking through the SOS Barrier

Doug Newburg, UVA

PrepSOS

Revisit your Dream

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Reconnecting with your emotional experiencing

Reconnecting with “why?” Balancing experience with results Getting OUT of the “duty cycle” Paradoxically improves results

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Reconnects with his LDint through photos Patients asked to tell “why they want to

live longer” Reconnects them with their LDints Reconnects him with his LDint Grandfather dying in the living room when

surgeon was six years old.

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DREAM

WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE

Doug Newburg, UVA

Preparation

SetbacksObstaclesSuccesses

Revisit the Dream

RESONANCE

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"Excellence is attained by those who care more than others think is wise, who risk more than others think is safe, who dream more than others think is practical.“

Bud Greenspan

World Class Performance

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…we still had a long way to go. Like ants getting over an enormous obstacle we climbed up without appearing to make any progress. The slope was very steep. . . The air was luminous, and the light was tinged with the most delicate blue. On the other side of the couloir, ridges of bare ice refracted the light like prisms and sparkled with rainbow hues. The weather was still set fine--not a single cloud--and the air was dry. I felt in splendid form and as if, somehow, I had found a perfect balance within myself--was this, I wondered, the essence of happiness.

Maurice Herzog, Annapurna, p. 166

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“Ballard’s 30-year career as an explorer has taught him to see his work as a circular process -- one that he compares with the stages that define the epicjourney of the archetypal hero: dream, prepare, assemble a team, go forth and lead, overcome obstacles, find truth, share new knowledge. They are, Ballard suggest, the same stages that any businessperson need to traverse in order totake a project from original conception to final realization.”

Fast Company, September, 1998, p. 161.

“I think I am a little bit different because everyone that said that was already professional when they said that. And I am not making money right now. I am just playing as a hobby. I guess. I mean, I don’t think I will turn professional in, like two, three years. But right now, it’s a hobby for me, it’s what I want to do. It’s not yet a job… and I think that I am still enjoying it because I am not making money yet.” Michelle Wie, 14, amateur golfer, USA Today, May 6, 2004, page 8C

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“I stopped loving golf at exactly the time I decided to turn pro.”

Tom Weiskopf Golf, July 2004, p. 133

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I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance with our innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth, 1988

INFUSES

DRAINS

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1. How do I wantto feel today?

2. What does it take to get that feeling?

3. What keeps me from that feeling?

4. How can Iget it back? RESONANCE

5. What are you

willing to work for?

Find Your Resonance Invest in Your Resonance Enjoy Your Resonance Help Others Find Their

Resonance

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Pay attention to your internal Life’s Dream as well as your external Life’s Dream

If you’re not resonating, will you be performing at a world-class level?

Pay attention to your experience along with your achieving.

It’s your life, what are you willing to work for?

Ignore Task AND Process at the risk of your enjoyment AND your performance

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Can you distinguish between LDext and LDint?

Can you identify your LDint? Can you identify your team’s LDint? Can you help people reconnect with their

LDint? What will the impact be on performance?

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Amazing grace, how sweet thy sound

That saved a wretch like me

I once was lost, but now am found.

Was blind but now I see.

An American Hymn

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