When an athlete is struggling with motivation, a coach’s first instinct is to step in and offer an external motivator to kick-start the athlete’s motivation. A coach will either default to a carrot or stick depending on their coaching style. More often than not this is the wrong answer. Although this may feel like the […]
Just because Nick Saban is arguably the greatest college football coach of all time doesn’t make his definition of talent better than Merriam-Webster or anybody else’s definition of talent. Nick Saban’s definition is better not because of who he is, it’s better because of the mindset it instills. If you Google the definition of talent […]
A coach’s coaching style is largely dependent on their philosophy around hard work and talent. A coach typically falls into one of three different philosophical categories. Coaching Philosophy 1: Being a Hard Worker is an Innate Characteristic The first philosophical category of hard work and talent is that you can’t teach a young athlete how […]