Jerry Frentsos

 Spud Webb

At 5’3”, he dunked a basketball.
At 5’6”, he won the NBA Slam Dunk Contest and played in the NBA for 12 years.

“There is something more to the world than meets the eye.”
-Anthropologist John Bowan

As you watch any and all athletes, there is more to their world than what you see, involving a physical, mental, and emotional drive fueled by six flow hormones…
Oxytocin, Serotonin, Dopamine, Adrenaline, Endorphins, Anandamide.
(But the order of these flow hormones is NOT the same for every athlete.)

“Become the Warrior” athletes are driven by dopamine, one of the flow hormones that strongly influences their mental and emotional drive. These individuals are the “calm before the storm.”

These athletes depend on cognitive stability rooted in “you know what you know,” with the ability to block out irrelevant information, grounded in consistency and experience. (Known as crystallized intelligence.)

“Warrior” athletes are adrenaline-driven, another flow-related hormone that strongly influences their
physical and emotional drive. 

These individuals thrive on the adrenaline rush that brings the event to them, enabling cognitive flexibility to “figure it out” and “shift gears” more quickly between emotions and actions. (Known as fluid intelligence.)

Side note: The nutritional needs and actions of an adrenaline-seeking athlete differ from those of a dopamine-driven athlete, and vice versa, based on the four principles of...

What you do.
How you feel.
How you think.
What you eat.