Peter Attia· MD
so my dad's like I'm gonna take you to one of my friends and we're gonna really test you for this so I have a pretty severe case of a DD and I have an LD as well and so I started realizing that in what is the particular LD did they define it clearly probably but I would not know unless I gave you my eval it's kind of a thick eval and I probably have it somewhere so what I learned was in archery I kind of zone out in archery I really feel like that's a big part of why I'm good at it and I'm the same when I weight lifts like I can do something repetitive so many times that I almost get it to a trance in it and it takes someone to like snap me out of that and in competition it's been that way to where I've been competing and for example like a cameraman or a videographer says hey man sorry for bumping it up during that shot I'm like when he's like I bumped your elbow and I'm completely oblivious to it because to me I'm so zoned out on that so I really started diving into this I really wanted to find out some of these people that write sports psychology books I was really curious if there's some type of connection between high level athletes that have a DD in other words they're hyper focused they're hyper focused just kind of by makeup and there's certainly times where if a lots going on I can be distracted but during those same times I can be having a conversation with you and people can be trying to get my attention and equally I don't get so I was kind of diving down this road of is this 82 e making me better me getting into my own zone because I also got to the point where during certain practices when I would practice with certain music there were times where I could get into flow states that were honestly that most people don't believe I mean I've had times where I shot 99 shots one time into the same era hole without stretching it it took an hour and a half of doing it but I remember I had I had like kind of a meditative type album playing it was just I didn't even know it but it was on repeat like it was on repeat on my playlist so the same song had been playing for an hour and a half and I never knew it and then I would just get into these flow States like that so I started looking up there a connection between people that have these types of hyper focusing and are these people also people that get into a flow state better because then at that point I was almost at the point of retirement and this stuff was starting to become clear to me and I'm thinking as a coach if I get to the point where I'm coach and national team's I'm gonna be looking for this I want to be able to find this and so then at that same time I started going into these books and I started to see the difference in personality types between ego driven and task driven personality types so and then clearly I am a task driven mentality I looked at a lot of times the task driven personality type athletes are normally the ones that kind of go down at their peak levels for the longest period of time they might not peak as high as the ego driven but as fast as the ego driven can peak they can also to sell so when people are looking at do you want the superstar the ego driven is like your route do you want the task driven the task driven is what you build a team off of yeah it was pretty interesting to go down those if you looked into that stuff have you ever dove down those roads