Resonance for L3L

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Resonance for L3LResonance for L3L

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Does how you Does how you feelfeel affect your performance?affect your performance?

• How many times in your life or career have you been asked HOW you want to feel?

• Why not?• PWD WTHTD ROHTF!!• What is the top thought on the minds of

most people on their way into work in the morning?

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Dave ScottDave Scott 49, Six-time Ironman Hawaii Champion49, Six-time Ironman Hawaii Champion

“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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Maria Sharapova on “feel”Maria Sharapova on “feel”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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John Molo, drummerJohn Molo, drummer

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Risky RecreationsRisky Recreations

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

Adapted from FLOW by Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi

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What do you think of Flow …What do you think of Flow …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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NEWBURG’S NEWBURG’S CAREER SAMPLESCAREER SAMPLES

World Class AthletesTouring MusiciansHeart SurgeonsExtraordinary ExecutivesWarriors/Naval Aviators

550 World Class Performers

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Dream

WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE

Doug Newburg, UVA

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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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Life’s DreamsLife’s Dreams

LD externalWhat you wanted to

be or do.Externally measuredAchievements“Success”

LD internalHow you felt at your

best.Internally measuredExperience“Success”

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Life’s Dream internal (LDint)Life’s Dream internal (LDint)

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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Examples of LDints …Examples of LDints … 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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Dream

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Doug Newburg, UVA

Preparation

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PreparationPreparation

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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The Relationship between Dream The Relationship between Dream and Preparation, Vijay Singhand Preparation, Vijay Singh

“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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Doug Newburg, UVA

PreparationSetbacksObstaclesSuccesses

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DREAM

WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE

Doug Newburg, UVA

Preparation

SOS

“DUTYCYCLE”

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What happens when energy crosses the What happens when energy crosses the divide between divide between

choice and obligation?choice and obligation?

CHOICE OBLIGATION

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First in yourself …First in yourself …

• 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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Revisiting the DreamRevisiting the Dream

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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One surgeon …One surgeon …

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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Doug Newburg, UVA

Preparation

SetbacksObstaclesSuccesses

Revisit the Dream

RESONANCE

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LDint is not the “goal” …LDint is not the “goal” …

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

Tom Weiskopf Golf, July 2004, p. 133

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How do you want to feel today?How do you want to feel today?

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ResonanceResonanceI 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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Easy SpeedEasy Speed

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Leadership is about managing Leadership is about managing energy, first in yourself and then energy, first in yourself and then

in those around you.in those around you.

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Leadership is Leadership is Managing Energy Managing Energy

INFUSES• • • • • •

DRAINS• • • •

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Five Key QuestionsFive Key Questions

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?

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THE PURPOSE OF LIFETHE PURPOSE OF LIFE

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

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Key Points …Key Points …

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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Implications for ManagersImplications for Managers

• 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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