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LEADERSHIP, RESONANCE,
and
THE PURPOSE OF LIFE
Jim Clawson and Doug Newburg
University of Virginia
FLOW
 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,
Newburg’s
CAREER SAMPLES
 World
Class Athletes
 Touring Musicians
 Heart Surgeons
 Extraordinary Executives
WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE
Dream
Doug Newburg, UVA
DREAMS
 Natural
 Given
 Discovered or
Built
DREAMS
Activities
Feelings
 NOT goals
or false dreams
 Resonance producing activities
 Feelings that come at the peak
All people dream; but not equally.
Those who dream by night
in the dusty recesses of their minds
wake in the day to find that it was vanity.
But the dreamers of the day
are dangerous people,
for they may act their dream with open eyes
to make it possible.
--T. E. Lawrence
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
WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE
N G D/B
Dream
Preparation
Doug Newburg, UVA
Preparation
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
WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE
N G D/B
Dream
F<-->R
I
Preparation
Doug Newburg, UVA
Freedoms and
Responsibilities
Freedom is born of self-discipline. No
individual, no nation, can achieve or
maintain liberty without self-control.
The undisciplined man is a slave to his
own weaknesses.
Alan Valentine
WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE
N G D/B
Dream
F<-->R
I
Preparation
Setbacks
Obstacles
Successes
Doug Newburg, UVA
Obstacles
Adversity has ever been considered
the state in which a man most easily
becomes acquainted with himself.
Samuel Johnson
WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE
N G D/B
DREAM
F<-->R
I
Preparation
S
O
S
Doug Newburg, UVA
WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE
N G D/B
DREAM
F<-->R
I
Preparation
S
O
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Doug Newburg, UVA
Obstacles
Whether an opportunity for action exists
or not,
and whether it is a daunting obstacle or a
stimulating challenge,
depends more on the mental preparation
of the person confronting it than on
objective material conditions.
Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, The Evolving Self, p. 245
WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE
N G D/B
DREAM
F<-->R
I
Revisit the
Dream
P
S
O
S
Doug Newburg, UVA
Revisiting the Dream
When in the beginning of years,
God mixed in man the raptures and the tears,
And scattered thru his brain the starry stuff,
He said, “Behold! Yet this is not enough,
For I must test his spirit to make sure,
that he can dare the vision and endure.
Edwin Markham
WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE
DREAM
Revisit
the
Dream
Preparation
Setbacks
Obstacles
Doug Newburg, UVA
Resonance
…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
Robert Ballard on Success
“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.
PURPOSE OF LIFE
 Find Your Resonance
 Invest
in Your Resonance
 Enjoy Your Resonance
 Help Others Find Their Resonance
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