Chasing Flow

Trail Runner Nation

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2016

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Mihály Csikszentmihályi describes flow as being "completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one...Your whole being is involved, and you're using your skills to the utmost".

Wow! How do we bottle that and release it on race day?

AJW's article on Flow "The Pleasure of Flow"
Podcast with Phil Maffetone, "How can Rhythm Improve Your Efficiency?"
Dr. Mihály Csikszentmihályi's book, "Flow: The Psychology of Happiness: The classic Work of How to Achieve Happiness"
AJW's mother's best selling book, "A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman"

If you want to read ahead, here is the basis of an upcoming podcast on Vulnerability.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Health IQ, it's worth going to health IQ slash TRN.
0:08.4	If you're looking for life insurance rates or you're wondering if you have the best rates
0:12.7	currently, you need to go check out health IQ.
0:15.4	It's great to compare.
0:16.4	I have a life insurance policy that I got probably, I don't know, eight, nine, ten years ago.
0:22.9	And I just signed a thing, did a physical and they gave me the rate and you pay.
0:28.1	And it was based on a medical examination.
0:32.2	Health IQ has realized that runners typically have lower risks than non-runners.
0:39.4	Absolutely.
0:40.4	And so you can go to Health IQ and they will match you up with a rated insurance companies
0:46.2	at lower rates.
0:47.2	I think it's a brilliant business model.
0:48.8	Go out there and find the segment of the population, the demographic that has the lowest
0:54.2	risk of catastrophe and bring them into your pool.
0:59.2	It's just good stuff.
1:00.4	Go to Health IQ slash TRN.
1:05.7	Hello, sir.
1:06.7	How may I help you?
1:07.7	Scott, it's me.
1:08.7	We don't have to keep roleplay.
1:09.7	Don, I'm not going.
1:10.7	I'm not an actual customer, but we are in the TRN store because of the cowbell.
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