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Ulmer had realized that ecstasis can be accessed through a host of different pursuits. And that realization, as she says, “saved my life.” Since making this discovery, she has designed and built some of Burning Man’s most famous art cars (including the one Tony Hsieh moved to his Downtown Project in Las Vegas). She also trained as a meditation and performance coach, and now leads Zen ski camps. She hasn’t had to risk her life for a thrill in years. “I still measure the quality of my life by the number of times I get into the zone,” explains Ulmer. “If I spend two weeks at Burning Man and only get that experience a handful of times, then I feel cheated. It wasn’t worth it. But now I can try different things. That’s the real change. Now I know I have options, that there are actual comparisons to make.”
Stealing Fire
Steven Kotler, Jamie Wheal
I focus on these five initial focus points with students (overlap with Diamond's definitions of core and higher-order executive functions in parentheses):
1. Organizing (planning, problem solving)
2. Planning (planning, reasoning, cognitive flexibility)
3. Prioritizing (reasoning, problem solving)
4. Starting tasks and completing tasks (inhibitory control, working memory, planning)
5. Adaptable thinking (cognitive flexibility, reasoning, problem solving)
How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes
Melinda Wenner Moyer
Coaching for development is about turning the focus from the issue to the person dealing with the issue, the person who’s managing the fire. This conversation is more rare and significantly more powerful. If I ask you to think back to a time when someone coached you in a way that stuck and made a difference, I’ll bet that it was a coaching-for-development conversation. The focus was on calling you forward to learn, improve and grow, rather than on just getting something sorted out.
The Coaching Habit
Michael Bungay Stanier
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