By definition, this means the height of your potential tops out at average.
“Serious athletes/parents critically think.
They aren’t just going to blindly jump into the soup of the over prescription of a specific sport because everybody else is.
They know and understand athletic development is a process, not an extra money grab ‘showcase’.”
-Ray Zingler on Twitter
I’m not a very smart guy, but one thing I am always doing is paying attention.
Paying attention especially to the high achievers and successful people.
How do they do it?
And not the pseudo success stories littered all over social media pages, the real stuff.
Sure, there is stuff to be learned from unsuccessful people, but the learning that takes place there is mostly about what not to do. I’d rather invest more of my energy into learning about action and what to do because after all we are largely products of who we associate with and what we consume, physically, mentally, and digitally.
I understand the youth sport landscape we are in arguably as well as, if not better than anybody else.
I work with kids of all ages, in all sports, competing at all levels in one of the biggest athletic hot beds on the globe. I’ve been doing this everyday of my life for over a decade and don’t have a dog in the fight either.
I see and live within the good, bad, and ugly every single day and my investigators cap doesn’t leave my head. Again, I’m always paying attention.
Do you think the best of the best are getting lost in the sauce?
Do you think they are trying with every ounce of their might to “get noticed or recruited?” Or do you think they’re largely focused on improving their actual crafts that have real tangible impact on their performance?
Remember, statistically speaking, per capita, a kid in a 3rd world country playing baseball without shoes on and using a saw mill slat for a bat today is more likely to make it to the top than our 12-year old’s whose souls we’re selling to travel ball.
Do you think the successful folks are just doing the same thing as everybody else? Or are they doing more/different things to differentiate themselves?
A coach asked me one time, “I just don’t understand why the kids just don’t get all their training in the school, we have everything here?”
Most kids will rely on that and that’s fine.
But is that the best product?
Is doing the same thing that everybody else does going to get you different results?
If you think so, google: definition of “Insanity”.
