Resonance for L3L

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Resonance for L3L
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Does how you feel 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 Scott 49, Six-time Ironman Hawaii Champion

• During a race, I never wear a wristwatch, and my
  bike doesnt have a speedometer. Theyre
  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

• 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, drummer
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Risky Recreations
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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
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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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NEWBURGS CAREER SAMPLES

• 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, UVA
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• When people come to work, its important that
  they be connected to a dream.
• Bill Gates, Fortune, 1/26/04, p. 124

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Lifes 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

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Lifes 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

• 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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WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE
Dream
Preparation
Doug Newburg, UVA
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Preparation
People ask me, How do you play so well? I
practiced, intense shedding. If youre 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 and Preparation,
Vijay Singh

• Confidence doesnt 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
Energy Cycle
Dream
Preparation
Doug Newburg, UVA
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WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE
Dream
Preparation
Setbacks Obstacles Successes
Doug Newburg, UVA
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WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE
DREAM
Preparation
DUTY CYCLE
S O S
Doug Newburg, UVA
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What happens when energy crosses the divide
between choice and obligation?
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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 Gods
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
cant really get it back, just seconds of knowing
and remembering. When people get weepy at
movies, its 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 theyre left
feeling a little heavy, and they dont 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 dont know
its happening until one day you feel like youve
lost something and youre not sure what it is.
Its like smiling at a pretty girl, and she calls
you sir. It just happens. From Boys Life,
Robert MacCammon
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Breaking through the SOS Barrier
DREAM
Revisit your Dream
Prep
S O S
Doug Newburg, UVA
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Revisiting 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

• 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
RESONANCE
Preparation
Setbacks Obstacles Successes
Doug Newburg, UVA
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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?
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Resonance
I think that what were 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 Speed
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Leadership is about managing energy, first in
yourself and then in those around you.
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Leadership is Managing Energy

• INFUSES

• DRAINS

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

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

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Key Points

• Pay attention to your internal Lifes Dream as
  well as your external Lifes Dream
• If youre not resonating, will you be performing
  at a world-class level?
• Pay attention to your experience along with your
  achieving.
• Its 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 Managers

• Can you distinguish between LDext and LDint?
• Can you identify your LDint?
• Can you identify your teams LDint?
• Can you help people reconnect with their LDint?
• What will the impact be on performance?

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