#18: Find Your Flow with Derek Tate

About this episode

Derek Tate discusses the key factors to finding your flow in various aspects of life.

Meet DEREK TATE, who will reveal the key factors to finding your flow on the ski slopes, at work and in your life. As a trainer of ski instructors and novices alike; Derek is on a mission 'to help as many people as possible experience the health and wellbeing benefits of sport and mountain life whatever your level of participation and involvement'. KEY THEMES Focus Flow Growth Mindset Personal Growth Dedicated Practice Role Models Optimal Performance Mindfulness Meditation BOOKS The Evolving Self by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Life's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl FILM High Society – with Ben Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Grace Kelly QUOTES 'Between stimulus and response there is a space and in that space is our power to choose a response, and in a response lies our growth and our freedom' ~ Victor Frankl

People in this episode

Host: Tania Cotton

Guest: Derek Tate

Topics covered

• flow
• personal growth
• mindfulness
• optimal performance
• growth mindset

Keywords

• flow
• mindfulness
• personal growth
• skiing
• optimal performance

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Evolving Self, Life's Search for Meaning, High Society

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