LEADERSHIP, RESONANCE,

and THE PURPOSE OF LIFE

Jim Clawson and Doug Newburg

University of Virginia

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

Adapted from FLOW by Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi,

Newburg’s CAREER SAMPLES

World Class AthletesTouring MusiciansHeart SurgeonsExtraordinary Executives

Dream

WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE

Doug Newburg, UVA

DREAMS

NaturalGivenDiscovered or Built

DREAMSActivities

Feelings

NOT goals or false dreams Resonance producing activitiesFeelings 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

Dream

WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE

Doug Newburg, UVA

Preparation

N G D/B

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

Dream

WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE

Doug Newburg, UVA

Preparation

N G D/B

F<-->RI

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

Dream

WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE

Doug Newburg, UVA

Preparation

N G D/B

F<-->R

I

SetbacksObstaclesSuccesses

Obstacles

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

Samuel Johnson

DREAM

WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE

Doug Newburg, UVA

Preparation

N G D/B

F<-->R

I

SOS

DREAM

WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE

Doug Newburg, UVA

SOS

F<-->R

I

N G D/B

Preparation

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

DREAM

WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE

Doug Newburg, UVA

PSOS

Revisit the Dream

F<-->R

I

N G D/B

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

DREAM

WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE

Doug Newburg, UVA

Preparation

SetbacksObstacles

Revisit the Dream

RESONANCE

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 epicjourney 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 totake a project from original conception to final realization.”

Fast Company, September, 1998, p. 161.

PURPOSE OF LIFE

Find Your ResonanceInvest in Your ResonanceEnjoy Your ResonanceHelp 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