We often speak about attitude, discipline, preparation, leadership requirements at all levels with individuals. It becomes difficult to develop a cohesive flow with so many different individuals involved.
This highly qualified Scientist gives us an understanding of how the brain works in all of us. How can this information from her be used in applying it to a culture in an organisation like a football club? I am not sure it is possible though I think she would say it is possible..
This presentation goes for an hour and may lose you at times as it did me. I do think the considerations she brings out are valuable for all of us in how we make sense of everything we encounter in our daily lives ----- including sport.
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i will watch this later. I am familiar with her earlier book "Stroke of Insight"
"Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained neuroanatomist"
If anyone can gain/explain neurological insights from experiencing a stroke, it is a trained neuroanatomist who examined the effects of her own stroke in real time......what a mindfuck!!!
Her unique circumstances may may bring her to conclusions that are not obvious or expected, but probably should be respected unless disproven.
Gee Randy you have a wealth of knowledge and a very broad range of knowledge in so many topic areas
The Dogs have actually hired a 'mind coach' especially for Reed for the 2024 season.
There's no cure for small man syndrome. Reed is the NRL version of Napoleon.
I reckon he's cooked. Imagine what his mind pictured season 2023 going like in January , compared to how it went for him.
We all see the world through the lens we do not see.....until, like poor Reed, that lens becomes so covered in shit and reality that you can't ignore it anymore,
It can really suck when reality intrudes... and i hope the traitorous shit has a particlarly rough time dealing with it.
Each brain is divided into two. Left side and right side.both sides are also divided into two.Making 4 sectors of the brain that need to work towards a effective response in one individual. Multiply it by say? 20 people in a team ( possibly more)X 4 parts of the brain gives you an idea of how complex the task is to get a cohesive one team discipline.You will never get that perfection in mindset. Maybe you can get a higher result if you understand how to approach a task like that. That,s how I understand the task. Money spent in this area should be looking for the best people to approach this.
Thinking about Sarandis (sp) statement about a commitment to excellence. Barrett talked about wanting players to leave Legacy. Excellence in coaching and internalizing a desire in ones soul to leave a legacy is not about working on simply one level of the brain. Most work on one level of consciousness .The excellence standard is working on the subconscious. According to Dr Jill Bolte Taylor their are 4 parts of the brain involving the sub conscious to get you to the level of . commitment towards excellence.That requires a coach trainer who can help players particularly key players to get you there . Working purely on the consciousness will be difficult to get you to excellence.
That applies to every endeavour in life
There is an awesome book called "the art of learning" which at the crux is about the mind set to maintain constant improvement. Covers all the bases from dealing with adversity to the esoteric of triggering yourself into peak performance by building internal activating blocks. The problem with mind coaches is, if you have no buy into the organisation then your players are already checked out. Brad gets that buy in, so any mental conditioning would go far better here than the rabble elsewhere.
Jacob I think at some level you can guide players in a certain way.The difficulty is that we all have a lot of noise in our heads and we have to get beyond that Impulse control .It is usually a problem most of us have in anything we do to our detriment.Performing in a high activity intense sport , requires a quiet mind where good decisions are best made instinctively with controlled emotion.Training to do that can take a lifetime.. The Art of learning is a good title
As one of the presenters notes information and science is continually evolving and that things change all the time. I think coaching in general doesn't keep up with the evolution like so many other ways we handle in life.The next big thing around the corner will always Eventually become outdated
Yes but at the end of the day there is a limit, have been in management for many years and sometimes all they do for their new big thing is rebrand an old idea. I try to keep it simple and focus more on buy in and getting the right people in the team. But I fully understand that you need someone to stay abreast of the new developments.
I maintain that if Brad is aware of his shortcomings and is ego free enough, he can be the mast head that the boys rally around while Trent and the forward coaches do the skill set.