Friday Five #4

Hey, good morning!

Here is my Friday 5 roundup of this week’s facts, fun and f’ups…

😍 Is freediving one of the most addicting sports in the world?!

• Nicolas Wallace writes in Blue Mind about how surfing is the most addictive sport in the world! Addiction occurs when your dopamine release is associated with several factors. Surfing, ticks ALL of the boxes! And guess what? So does freediving!
   
• Here are the 8 factors that makes an activity addicting: (the more boxes it ticks, the more addicting it is!!)
   
  1. novelty – a new experience every time, never boring
  2. risky / challenging
  3. always learning and improving yourself
  4. effortful activity
  5. takes place in the natural environment – bonus points for water!
  6. aerobic activity – (freedives start out aerobic and then change to anaerobic)
  7. desire / anticipation – desiring that reward for that feeling right after the dive!
  8. community
      
• So if you haven’t freedived in 48+ hours and feel like you’re going crazy like Stewie, you may be addicted to freediving
  
  

🔢 Why to forget about the numbers to dive deep?

• Lately, I’ve been researching the mental techniques that top freedivers use for my next podcast episode, and something interesting I read in One Breath was that:
  
  “top athletes often say that fixating on a number pulls their focus away from the feeling of the dive, and that the only way to dive deeper is to forget about the number they’re aiming for and stay with the feeling.”

✨ What is life?

• According to Gary Keller, life is a question. Because when you are looking for any answers in life (i.e. what to do in your career, how to train, what goals to pursue, etc, it can be anything…), answers come from questions. And the quality of the answer is determined by the quality of the question. If you ask the wrong question, you get the wrong answer. If you ask the right question, you get the right answer. ‘Ask the most powerful question possible, and the answer can be life altering.’
  
  “One of the most empowering moments of my life came when I realized that life is a question and how we live it is our answer. How we phrase the questions we ask ourselves determines the answers that eventually become our life”
   
• Everyday (sometimes a few times a day!) I ask myself Gary’s Focusing Question: “What’s the ONE Thing I can do, such by doing it, everything else will be easier or unnecessary”. It’s helping massively, not only for prioritizing things to do for work, training, personal life but I’m seeing amazing results and more joy in every area 🙂

💬 What quotes I’ve been thinking about –

“The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.”

– Bob Hawke (former Prime Minister of Australia)

“Multitasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.”

– Gary Keller

🎁 Why to give thanks?

• “Gratitude is the key to growth and fulfillment. If you were to give someone a gift and they just looked at it and then tossed it aside without thanks, would you be inclined to give them another? Of course not, and the universe responds just as you do.”
   
• In The Breakthrough Experience, John Demartini writes about how the universe behaves like us (!!), just on a grander scale. An important reason why to be grateful for what you’ve been given, otherwise why will the universe want to give you anything more? Just a reminder to give thanks 🙂

As always, it’s a pleasure and honor getting to spend some time with you, I hope you have a great weekend!

Renee