This is beautiful and so helpful to focus on as a young coach. Focusing on developing the whole person will stick with me. Who cares about dropping a few seconds off your mile time, at the end of the day? Your family will remember the kind of person you were.
The part about approaching an unthinkable goal without straining stuck with me. I have a small version of that: from what I looked up, once I've moved by 4, "start from the origin" splits into two meanings, so I decided in advance to read F3 and say the difference as a subtraction, so I don't freeze. I've written the drill but haven't said it out loud yet, and the article made me want to do that next.
Really interesting and helpful Steve
This is beautiful and so helpful to focus on as a young coach. Focusing on developing the whole person will stick with me. Who cares about dropping a few seconds off your mile time, at the end of the day? Your family will remember the kind of person you were.
The part about approaching an unthinkable goal without straining stuck with me. I have a small version of that: from what I looked up, once I've moved by 4, "start from the origin" splits into two meanings, so I decided in advance to read F3 and say the difference as a subtraction, so I don't freeze. I've written the drill but haven't said it out loud yet, and the article made me want to do that next.
Great thought provoking essay. Thanks Steve. I think how to coach an athlete to own their seat would be a great topic for the On Coaching podcast.
Very interesting.
I would have appreciated to know whom you were quoting and the source you were quoting from