John K. Coyle, an internationally renowned speaker and author on the topic of “chronoception,” referring to the perception of time and the quest to slow down its passage, is this week’s guest on the NEW Manufacturing Insights podcast, the same day he is scheduled to speak at the NEW Manufacturing Alliance’s quarterly membership meeting in Manitowoc.
Coyle started in speed skating. He found success when he walked away from the structured U.S. Olympic Team program that focused on addressing his weaknesses and instead leaned into his strengths, ultimately setting a world record and earning the silver in Lillehammer.
He started his work in chronoception following a meditation on the tenths and even hundredths of seconds that separate elite racers and making the common observation that time seems to speed up for people as they get older. Hear more about what he has discovered on this week’s episode, including the power of moments, sometimes extremely brief moments, in time to change the trajectory of our lives.
“The idea that the future trajectory of your path hinges on moments is something the Greeks figured out thousands of years ago,” Coyle shares on this week’s episode. “Almost everything that resets the trajectory of our lives happens in a moment. There might be years leading up to it, but our lives tend to hinge on moments.”
Listen to the full episode on Spreaker or anywhere you listen to podcasts.
NEW Manufacturing Insights is hosted by Franz of the NEW Manufacturing Alliance and Bruns of Insight on Manufacturing magazine and is produced by B.J. DeGroot of Woodward Community Media. New episodes are released on Thursdays.
