Resonance Base

FLOW: 

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 Csikzentmihalyi,

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

NEWBURG’S CAREER SAMPLES: 

NEWBURG’S CAREER SAMPLES World Class Athletes Touring Musicians Heart Surgeons Extraordinary Executives Warriors/Naval Aviators 450 World Class Performers

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Dream WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE Doug Newburg, UVA

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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

Life’s Dreams: 

Life’s Dreams 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”

Does how you feel affect your performance?: 

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

DREAMS (LDext & LDint): 

DREAMS (LDext & LDint) Natural Given Discovered or Built

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

LDexts & LDints: 

LDexts & LDints

Goals vs/and Experience: 

Goals vs/and Experience 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.

The Dark Side of Goals: 

The Dark Side of Goals OUTSIDE INSIDE

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INSIDE OUT ENERGY AND RESONANCE OUTSIDE-IN GOAL ORIENTATION CHOICE OBLIGATION

Dave Scott 49, Six-time Ironman Hawaii Champion: 

Dave Scott 49, 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

IMPACT OF YOUR DREAM FOCUS: 

IMPACT OF YOUR DREAM FOCUS

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What are you deeply passionate about? What can you be the best in the world at? What drives your economic engine? Core BHAG Collins’ Hedgehog Concept

Examples of LDints …: 

Examples of LDints … Easy speed (swimmer) Playing to win at the highest level Being at one with my surroundings Creative, Intimate, Helping, Athletic Peaceful, satisfied, alive Buoyant, connected mastery Light, unhurried, and engaged.

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Dream WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE Doug Newburg, UVA Preparation

Preparation: 

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

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Dream WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE Doug Newburg, UVA Preparation Energy Cycle

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Dream WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE Doug Newburg, UVA Preparation Setbacks Obstacles Successes

OBSTACLES: 

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

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DREAM WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE Doug Newburg, UVA Preparation S O S “DUTY CYCLE”

What happens when energy crosses the divide between choice and obligation?: 

What happens when energy crosses the divide between choice and obligation?

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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 Prep S O S Revisit your Dream

Revisiting the Dream: 

Revisiting the Dream Reconnecting with your emotional experiencing Reconnecting with “why?” Balancing experience with results Getting OUT of the “duty cycle” Paradoxically improves results

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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DREAM WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE Doug Newburg, UVA Preparation Setbacks Obstacles Successes Revisit the Dream RESONANCE

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

Robert Ballard on Success: 

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.

For fun or pay?: 

For fun or pay? “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

How do you want to feel today?: 

How do you want to feel today?

Resonance: 

Resonance 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

Leadership is Managing Energy : 

Leadership is Managing Energy INFUSES DRAINS

Five Key Questions: 

Five Key Questions 1. How do I want to feel today? 2. What does it take to get that feeling? 3. What keeps me from that feeling? 4. How can I get it back? RESONANCE 5. What are you willing to work for?

THE PURPOSE OF LIFE: 

THE PURPOSE OF LIFE Find Your Resonance Invest in Your Resonance Enjoy Your Resonance Help Others Find Their Resonance

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

Implications for Managers: 

Implications 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?

Leadership is about managing energy, first in yourself and then in others.: 

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

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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