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 Time
warps (slow or fast)
 Lose sense of self
 Intense focus
 Perform at highest level
 Seems effortless (flow)
 Internally satisfying
 Regain larger sense of self
Adapted from FLOW by Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi
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 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 Athletes
 Touring Musicians
 Heart Surgeons
 Extraordinary Executives
 Warriors/Naval Aviators
550 World Class Performers
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WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE
dream
Doug Newburg
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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 Greenleaf
Servant 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
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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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100%
OUTSIDE
50%
INSIDE
0%
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CHOICE
OBLIGATION
OUTSIDE-IN
GOAL
INSIDE OUT ENERGY
ORIENTATION
AND RESONANCE
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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.”
Outside, 9/03, p. 122
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External Life’s Dream
Internal
Life’s
Dream
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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
connected.
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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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WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE
Dream
Preparation
Doug Newburg, UVA
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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
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“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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WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE
Dream
Energy
Cycle
Preparation
Doug Newburg, UVA
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WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE
Dream
Setbacks
Obstacles
Successes
Preparation
Doug Newburg, UVA
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Adversity has ever been considered
the state in which a man most easily
becomes acquainted with himself.
Samuel Johnson
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WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE
DREAM
Preparation
S
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“DUTY
CYCLE”
Doug Newburg, UVA
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CHOICE
OBLIGATION
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 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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Breaking through the SOS Barrier
DREAM
Revisit your
Dream
Prep
S
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Doug Newburg, UVA
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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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WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE
DREAM
Revisit
the
Dream
Preparation
Setbacks
Obstacles
Successes
Doug Newburg, UVA
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World Class Performance
"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
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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 epic
journey 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 to
take a project from original conception to final
realization.”
Fast Company, September, 1998, p. 161.
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“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
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INFUSES
DRAINS
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1. How do I want
to feel today?
5. What
are you
willing to
work for?
4. How can I
2. What does it take
get it back? RESONANCE to get that feeling?
3. What keeps me
from that feeling?
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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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