18 Mar Endurance Innovation 96 – Boredom and Willpower with Drs. Wanja Wolff and James Danckert
Dr. Wanja Wolff and Prof. James Danckert are on the show to cover the surprisingly interesting topic of boredom – and willpower too – as it pertains to endurance sport performance.
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- 1:45 meet Dr. Wanja Wolff
- 2:15 meet Prof. James Danckert
- 5:00 the clinical definition of self control – aka willpower
- 7:00 the clinical definition of boredom
- 9:00 how prior self control exertion affects a subsequent endurance task
- 12:30 how boredom may be a confound in above experiments
- 14:30 the very real struggle of boring easy workouts
- 18:00 boredom can occur in both under and over-aroused situations
- 22:00 the flow state: the opposite of boredom
- 25:00 the role of time in boredom
- 26:30 boredom and mind wonder
- 27:45 boredom is relative in short vs long intervals
- 31:15 the importance of meaning / your personal ‘why’
- The advantage of even virtual competition
- 36:30 possible interventions to address boredom in training
- Find your own meaning and create your own agency
- Try social and/or competitive forms of the sport even if they are virtual
- First step is recognition that you ARE bored
- Don’t ignore it, rather try to understand why you are bored
- Deliberate mind wandering practice
- Music, audiobooks, and podcasts
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