Flow Unleashed
Flow Unleashed
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Interested in HUMAN performance? Want to be kept up-to-date with the latest science and practice? Join Cameron Norsworthy, scientist and coach to multiple world champions, as he unpacks key topics to peak performance, deep engagement, and life satisfaction.
After a career-ending injury as an athlete, I became fascinated by human experience; why in one moment, we can be feeling and acting our very best, only to struggle and stress moments later. I studied sports and performance psychology, neuroscience, coaching, and life-hacking, and did my PhD in advancing our understanding and application of flow. I became a scientist, an entrepreneur, and a coach, and found my life’s purpose in helping some of the world’s best athletes, entrepreneurs, and professionals find their flow. My drive to keep learning and growing genesis an organisation to innovate human performance and set the standards for performance coaching. In this podcast, I share everything that I am working on, giving you a window into the skills, insights, research, and practices that I use every day working with elite professionals. Meet experts from around the world and famous performers with unique stories as we unpack specific topics to help you evolve, raise your game when it matters, and help others to find success.
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Focuses on human performance, mental fitness, emotional intelligence, and resilience, with episodes covering topics such as the science of habits, mastering character in leadership, and transforming anxiety into engagement through performance psychology.
Interested in HUMAN performance? Want to be kept up-to-date with the latest science and practice? Join Cameron Norsworthy, scientist and coach to multiple world champions, as he unpacks key topics to peak performance, deep engagement, and life satisfaction.
After a career-ending injury as an athlete, I became fascinated by human experience; why in one moment, we can be feeling and acting our very best, only to struggle and stress moments later. I studied sports and performance psychology, neuroscience, coaching, and life-hacking, and did my PhD in advancing our understanding and application of flow. I became a scientist, an entrepreneur, and a coach, and found my life’s purpose in helping some of the world’s best athletes, entrepreneurs, and professionals find their flow. My drive to keep learning and growing genesis an organisation to innovate human performance and set the standards for performance coaching. In this podcast, I share everything that I am working on, giving you a window into the skills, insights, research, and practices that I use every day working with elite professionals. Meet experts from around the world and famous performers with unique stories as we unpack specific topics to help you evolve, raise your game when it matters, and help others to find success.
In a conversation with Cameron, Andreas Krafft explains why hope is an existential human phenomenon needed to survive, flourish, and act, especially amid environmental, political, and societal crises. He describes hope as an emergent property with three necessary elements: a meaningful wish, belief that it is possible, and trust in personal and external resources to cope with setbacks. They discuss how young people have faced helplessness and a lack of positive prospects since the pandemic, and how negativity bias can fuel spirals of despair, countered by attention to positive experiences, strengths, solidarity, and success. Andres emphasises relationships—warning loneliness is a “hope killer”—and notes fear of disappointment often blocks hope, though disappointment is part of it. He outlines the Hope Barometer, a 15-year multinational survey mapping cultural patterns of hope and its links to wellbeing, resilience, values, and beliefs, and argues for new positive narratives to reduce polarisation and motivate shared societal goals.
00:00 Why Hope Matters
02:42 Hope Fuels Action
05:20 Three Elements of Hope
12:43 Hope in Hard Times
20:20 Negativity Bias Trap
25:15 Rebuilding Hope Daily
28:56 Belief and Disappointment
32:22 Hope Needs Connection
34:04 Love as a Metaphor
35:12 Rebuilding Hope Together
35:47 Hope Barometer Origins
38:26 Hope Across Cultures
40:33 Hope Links to Resilience
43:53 Crisis Focus Fuels Polarization
49:25 Young People and Lost Prospects
52:18 New Narratives for the Future
58:14 Practical Ways to Foster Hope
01:01:27 Books That Shaped Him
01:02:57 Hope Beyond the Self
01:08:51 Sharing the Candle of Hope
01:09:43 Final Thanks and Farewell
For shownotes see: https://www.cameronnorsworthy.com/flow-unleashed
To purchase the book ‘How to Find Flow’, visit https://geni.us/HowToFindFlow
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