I would argue that coachability is the #1 lesson a young athlete must learn before they get to high school. Coachability is the ability to listen, learn, and execute coaching suggestions. Furthermore, to teach a young athlete coachability three things are required: Consistent mentoring from a great coach. (Please read: Great Coaches Go Beyond Teaching Only […]
Jordan Burroughs is the greatest American freestyle wrestler of this generation. He is an Olympic wrestling champion, a 5x world champion, and just won his 9th world medal in total. Yesterday, in his post-match interview, Burroughs dropped several meaningful nuggets of wisdom, so I highly recommend you watch the full video. However, one short quote […]
Yesterday I wrote about a Jordan Burroughs quote on sacrifice. In this quote he explains that sacrifice is both doing more and doing less. Today I want to juxtapose that concept with Seth Godin’s perspective on goals in the context of setting goals in youth wrestling. Godin breaks goals down into two types: Give up […]