🏀 How to Overcome Expectations and Raging Mastery

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Here’s what we’re serving up:

🏀 #1 - Favorite thing we watched  📺

🏀 #2 - Favorite Action 🎥 

🏀 #3 - Best thing we heard 💭

LET’S DIVE IN ⬇️

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Managing Expectations 📺

Happy New Year and Mid-Season!

We are sure a lot of you are or have faced some sort of adversity so far this season.

Mike McDaniel head coach of the Miami Dolphins says he is at his best in times of adversity. He sees adversity as an opportunity.

Playing and being in the moment is a never-ending practice. Especially when expectations are high. But when you master it, it can take you to a whole new level.

Here was Iowa’s national rankings week by week last year. They went most of the season below expectations…

Watch the full video by What Drives Winning here:

"We don't need to be perfect. We just need to cover for each other."

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Must Add Action 🎥 

BYU Zoom “Over”

• Zoom is used by many 5 out offenses this season (most teams ever)

• BYU utilizes timely cutting, & spacing to use a pin down/DHO into rim pressure over the top.

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Grouping Memory 💭

"Breadth of Training predicts Breadth of Transfer"

Transfer: Ability to take skills and knowledge and apply them to a new problem you haven’t quite seen.

Training: The diversity of problem types you see in training will predict your ability to do that.  

Narrow problem types create "procedure knowledge", of how to do one thing well.

Diverse problem types allow you to create "connective knowledge" where you can match a strategy to a type of problem. Knowledge is needed when improvising.

Here’s an extreme example:

Two qualities of people who change their field:

1. Rage to master: being so consumed with wanting to improve at something.  The work has to be the win.  Every man has two lives, and the second one begins when he realizes he only has one.  This is the mindset and the headspace of someone pursuing mastery in a domain.  A combination of gratitude and a perspective of time.

2. Ability to learn quickly:  when someone is pursuing mastery and enjoys what they do, failure is just part of it.  Their craft is something that looks like work to others but feels like play to them.  It's hard to work as hard as somebody when they genuinely enjoy what they are doing.

Until next week!