Episode 5-510 – Dr. Andre – The Group dynamic of Hate
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Hello my running friends. Welcome to episode 5-510 of the RunRunLive podcast.
Today we are going to continue our series on the current culture of hate and outrage with the goal of potentially having a better understanding of the causes and hopefully potential remediation. To this end we talk to Dr. Andre about the role groups play in amplifying hate.
In Section One I’m going to talk hopefully about how you can still push yourself athletically as you age and my plan to put this theory to the test this summer.
And in section two I will summarize the influence of groups on how we think and act and the group role in hate. And some suggestions to get out of it.
Now – you may ask – what does all this hate stuff have to do with running and endurance sports? Well, I mean, everything is connected right? I think as runners we have a better grasp of self-management than other demographics. And by using the word ‘demographic’ I am talking about distance runners as a defined group that you and I are members of.
We have our rules and our own code, right? We praise effort and achievement. We try not to disparage those of lesser ability. We try to lift up and encourage our brothers and sisters in sweat. We don’t like to be called joggers. We don’t like people who line up in the wrong corral or cheat.
But, do we hate non-runners? Do we think they are stupid and evil? Probably not. The strongest we ever get is “you don’t know what you’re missing”.
The first episode in the hate series focused more on the individual and potential causes of the current climate of hate. This episode is going to dive into the group dynamics.
My intention when with this journey was to learn. And it is the steering of my own little boat through the storm that I am playing at. This current climate has upset me, and my world, and I seek to understand.
My experience is that if I am having these thoughts, you are too. There is some sort of karma in a cultural moment where we are all experiencing the same zeitgeist. So, I chose to act, in my own way, which is to learn what I can and find tools for us to all live better as a result.
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Enough about that.
Let’s talk Spring time! Yes, it is starting to get beautifully warm. The days are long. It is my favorite time of year. A time of rebirth and hope in New England.
It is the time of planting and cleaning and growing.
All things rising green from the good earth once again.
I’m two weeks out from our Grand Canyon adventure. I feel like I have the fitness. Nothing hurts too bad and the workouts are going well.
I’ll tell you a story.
I have a North Face water pack that I acquired in 2007 from someone who won it at a mountain bike race and didn’t want it. I’ve worn that pack through many long training runs and long races. I’ve kept the water bladder and hose in the freezer the whole time so it wouldn’t get gross and moldy. I never put anything except water in it.
It’s been a good soldier.
I have dusted it off recently because I am going to need a pack for the Canyon crossing. And last Sunday morning on my long run I realized the bladder was showing its age. The hose connection is leaking. The bladder developed a pin-hole leak at Leadville a few years ago and I patched it with Eric’s Hello Kitty Duct Tape – which has surprisingly held up very well. I’ve replaced the bite valve a couple times.
So – I figured I should probably make a decision. Either buy a whole new pack or see if I can swap out the bladder.
On further thought, I remembered I have an extra bladder and hose from the other pack I bought. So this morning I tested putting this unused bladder in my old North Face pack.
It is the right size. It has a different configuration, but I can work around that. The old bladder had a large, screw-on, rigid fill cap on the top that worked really well. This new one has a slide-on closure – so the bladder itself is open ended – like a paper bag – then to close it you fold the top over and slide the closing clip across the fold.
Anyhow – I put some water in it and mounted it in my old pack to see how it would ride. One thing that was immediately noticeable was the hose was quite a bit longer than the old hose.
When I tried to drink out of it, I found that I couldn’t get the syphon to work. Here I was out in the woods running hard, trying not to fall and uselessly sucking away at the bite valve and getting only drops of water.
The way it is supposed to work is once the hose fills with water it creates a syphon, and the water flows due to gravity when you bite the valve.
At a rest break I did try filling the hose by squeezing the bladder and it worked well in the moment, but once I started running it drained out and the syphon broke.
I think the hose is too long. They probably made it too long intentionally. I need to cut it to the appropriate length. I’ll give that a try tomorrow. I believe the long hose may be violating some law of fluid dynamics or maybe Bernoulli’s principle.
The pack rides well enough with the new bladder, but other than getting practice at sucking, there is no water to be had.
And let’s face it. I suck enough already, right?
Postscript: I did cut down the hose to a more manageable length. But that was not the issue. There is an additional slide mechanism in the bite valve assembly that I didn’t know about. So – it’s not just a bite valve. It’s a slide and bite valve.
But now that I have it figured out I suck a bit less.
On with the show.
Section One – Old running
Featured Interview – Dr. Andre Walton
Good to talk to you Chris, it was a very enjoyable conversation.
Here are links to various pages that have more information about me, my book and what I do:
https://www. hiredrandre.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/plan4change/
https://www.facebook.com/drandrewalton
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andre-Walton
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B006VY9QU4/about
Best wishes,
Andre
Andre P Walton, Ph.D.
‘15 years as an entrepreneur taught me it is lonely at the top! Ten years as a business coach has taught me it doesn’t have to be!’
Author: Embracing the New Era – Managing Oneself and Others in the Era of Creativity
Visiting Professor of Creativity and Entrepreneurship: Newport Business School, Wales, UK
Adjunct Faculty: Justice Management Master’s Degree Program, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
Professor, Marketing and Management, Business School, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
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Section Two: Group dynamics in hate summarized
Outro
Well my friends, you have run, with your group, to the end of another RunRunLive Podcast, Episode 5-510 Done, done, done.
My training has been going well over the last couple weeks. I’m getting 4 solid efforts in a week including a decent long run. All of this has helped me keep the weight stable and I’m quite happy with my fitness.
I think I have the required fitness for the canyon. I’m certainly not in shape to race a 52 mile course with 2 miles of elevation loss and 2 miles of elevation gain, but we’re not racing.
Understanding that we are doing it at a casual pace and effort. Should be ok.
Yes – I did go down to Asheville NC for the wedding I referred to in the last episode. It was fun. Asheville is an interesting place. It’s a bit of a hippie town.
I had the opportunity to get out and explore. I ran down by the river and there is still a lot of destruction from the hurricane floods, but they are cleaning up and the tourists are back.
My wife and I drove down for the long weekend. It’s a bit of a haul from where we are outside Boston to Asheville. On the way down we cut it up into a 3-day trip, stopping in Delaware, then at our daughter’s place in Virginia for a visit.
But when we started back on Easter Sunday, my wife decided that since there was no traffic and no construction we should just push through. And we did. Up the Shenandoah Valley, across Pennsylvania and home in about 15 hours.
Zoom. Zoom. Zoom.
Ollie was glad to see us after spending 5 days at the kennel.
This weekend is the Groton Road Race. I mention this because I have been running the Groton Road race every year since it started in 1991. This was the race the heralded my return to running. I was the race director for 10 years. Now I just volunteer and support where I can.
I need to figure out how to get my yearly course run logged in addition to my last long effort for the canyon over the weekend. I’m probably going to do my long run on Saturday and then run the course Sunday morning.
Hope everyone is having a fine week.
Don’t forget to check out the first book in my apocalypse series – links in the show notes.
And I’ll see you out there.
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