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1. Happiness Lab Season 1, Episode 3 podcast “A Silver Lining” (Links to an external site.) (audio) with Dr. Laurie Santos or transcript: Silver Lining Transcript.rtf

2. Read the following selections from Steven Kotler’s Rise of Superman (Amazon link to ebook or hard copy). (Links to an external site.) Ammons and Potter are wonderful examples of record-setting extreme athletes who succeed because they are so good at inducing joyful flow states in which they lose all sense of self-criticism or self-consciousness or ego.

• Chapter 6 “Outer Flow” on extreme solo kayaker Doug Ammons
• Chapter 3 “The Where of Flow” on free solo climber Dean Potter

3. Read the transcript or listen to Hidden Brain podcast: “Would You Rather Win Silver Or Bronze? (Be Careful What You Wish For)” (Links to an external site.) (August 3, 2012)

4. “Mindfulness Meditation for Athletes: Get in the Zone” (Links to an external site.) on the benefits of self-awareness without self-judgement in sports. Athletes often struggle with performing well under the stress of competition; mindfulness meditation technique are shown to improve performance by drawing all the athlete’s attention on the present moment and thus silencing the voice of self-criticism and self-comparisons to others.

5. Kris Heap’s “The Day Michael Phelps Went Blind” (Links to an external site.) on an Olympic swimmer’s ability to win gold even when blind because of his daily meditation practices he calls mental “videotapes.”

Please write full sentences as you are writing a normal essay.

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