Thomas Edison
Are You Great?
Spring has brought the usual array of new baseball books, and one of them should catch the eye of coaches everywhere.
It’s called “The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About Genetics, Talent and IQ is Wrong,” by David Shenk.
The content shouldn’t come as any surprise if you’ve read books like “The [...]
Fighting Frustration
Yesterday I spent a pleasant hour helping two athletes work on their free throws.
We used the model for deliberate practice:
Conscious effort to improve.
Task is just outside your area of competence.
Many repetitions, with feedback.
I encouraged them to use their own feedback, namely, look where the ball went and make adjustments. And just to make it more [...]
Staying Excited
“I feel sorry for the person who can’t get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.” – Walter Chrysler
Yesterday I had the occasion to walk through Times Square.
Having done it thousands of times, I now enjoy the tourists more than the site itself. [...]
Actions Ripple Outward
“He led no armies into battle, he conquered no countries, and he enslaved no peoples… Nonetheless, he exerted a degree of power the magnitude of which no warrior ever dreamed. His name still commands a respect as sweeping in scope and as world-wide as that of any other mortal …” — Said of Thomas Edison
On this day in [...]
