Cameron Norsworthy
#1: Unlock Your Inner Game: Mastering Flow and Performance with Dr. Cameron Norsworthy - Get to know your host (solo episode)
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In the inaugural "get to know your host" episode of Flow Unleashed, Dr. Cameron Norsworthy, a scientist and high-performance coach to world champions, introduces the podcast by exploring the fascinating world of human performance, optimal functioning, and flow. Drawing from his experience as an athlete, coach, and researcher, Cameron delves into how we can elevate our inner game to achieve flow and peak performance. He shares personal stories of overcoming challenges like career-ending injuries and anxiety, while offering insights into the science of flow and how it can transform both professional and personal life. This episode lays the foundation for future discussions with elite performers, academics, and experts from around the world. Tune in to gain actionable strategies to unlock flow and thrive in life.
ABOUT THE GUEST
Cameron Norsworthy
Cameron Norsworthy is a performance coach, scientist, and entrepreneur with a background as a junior tennis player for England. After injury ended his athletic career, he became fascinated by performance psychology and flow. He holds a PhD in flow science and has published influential research on optimal performance. As the CEO of The Flow Centre, he has coached world champions, leaders, and professionals to enhance their performance. Cameron also has extensive experience founding companies and advising businesses, helping them grow, innovate, and succeed.
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00:00:02:10 - 00:00:25:13
Cameron Norsworthy:
Flow unleashed. Hello and welcome to Flow Unleashed. My name is Doctor Cameron Noseworthy. I'm a scientist and High-Performance coach to multiple world champions. When I started this podcast, because many of the coaches that I train and mentor wanted regular insights on specific topics so that they can be kept up to speed with the latest science practice within team and performance.
00:00:25:15 - 00:00:56:10
Cameron Norsworthy:
I hope the show can now also help you collect ideas, stay informed and inspire your own performance or those that you work with when helping them to be their best. I'm fascinated in human performance, human experience flow, optimal functioning and everything peak performance related after career ending injury as an athlete. I became curious with how I could be playing out of my skin in one moment, hitting the ball exactly where I wanted to be without hesitation.
00:00:56:12 - 00:01:24:13
Cameron Norsworthy:
I need to find myself tightening up, stressing and making mistakes moments later. Subjective experience in any given moment underpins everything we think, feel and do. Yet I was always amazed at how rarely the quality of our moment to moment experience and our inner game surrounding that is actively prioritized in our training, in our performances. Or is life as a whole?
00:01:24:15 - 00:01:54:13
Cameron Norsworthy:
We often happy to pay money for better tasting coffee, better equipment, or a more immersive holiday. Yet rarely do we spend five minutes to manage our mindset. Rarely do we wake up in the morning and focus on increasing the quality of our mental landscape, and in a game which might otherwise bring us greater satisfaction, performance and results. I studied sports performance psychology, neuroscience, coaching and many life hacking disciplines.
00:01:54:16 - 00:02:20:17
Cameron Norsworthy:
I spent years peeling back the layers of my mind to further mine development. I experimented with my own inner game to face some of my biggest fears, such as swimming with sharks and overcoming the anxiety of stammering to become a keynote speaker. Along the way, I was drawn into the concept and application of flow, flow being the scientific term for optimal functioning.
00:02:20:19 - 00:02:51:23
Cameron Norsworthy:
Why? Because flow seems to deal with what matters most. Living and breathing a meaningful and deeply rewarding life, whether it is an interaction that sparks a conversation with a life of its own, or losing self in the music, or smashing through an inbox as the emails seem to write themselves, or perhaps cooking like a composer delivering an effortless presentation, or even surprising ourselves as we score that perfect goal.
00:02:52:00 - 00:03:26:05
Cameron Norsworthy:
These moments of flow that beckon, such internal synchronicity, intuitive action and intrinsic reward are often at the core of what make life great. Flow also grabbed my attention because of the benefits that seem to arise when we actively prioritize flow in our day to day life. To further my understanding of these rich moments, I carried out a PhD specifically to help advance our scientific understanding and practical application of optimal performance and flow.
00:03:26:07 - 00:03:54:01
Cameron Norsworthy:
And over the years, I have found my life's purpose in helping others understand this knowledge and practice so that they can raise their game and find their flow when they need it most. My drive to keep learning and evolving this wisdom. Genesys. In an organization with the sole aim of innovating human performance through research, training and coaching, helping to set the standards for the profession of performance coaching.
00:03:54:03 - 00:04:30:10
Cameron Norsworthy:
In doing so, I became a scientist, an entrepreneur, CEO and a coach, and now a podcast host. In this show, I share everything that I'm working on, giving you a window into the skills, insights, research, and practices that I use every day whilst working with elite professionals. You will be able to meet experts from around the world and famous performers with unique stories as we unpack specific topics with the aim of open sourcing, practical tips that you can use to help yourself and others find the successes you're aiming for.
00:04:30:12 - 00:05:01:03
Cameron Norsworthy:
I love having conversations that have the potential to impact lives, and I hope you like listening to these discussions to. From surrendering into the pressure whilst hanging off the cliff, to learning how to forgive ourselves in order to give for our future self. This first series brings together discussions with a world champion, leading academics, expert authors and specialists who I think have an important message worth listening to.
00:05:01:05 - 00:05:05:24
Cameron Norsworthy:
So strap in. Hit subscribe and let's jump into the first adventure.