Some science for a Monday morning...

[Feedthewolf 4,844]

For anyone who's feeling negative about our current plight, give this article a read. With a little bit of self-coaching, you can teach yourself to enjoy your life and its situations a little bit more. You can reprogram yourself to recognise the positivity in situations with some application.

https://www.verywellmind.com/negative-bias-4589618

[Making Plans 936]

Let's hope our players read it

[Feedthewolf 4,844]

2 minutes ago, Making Plans said:

Let's hope our players read it

They don't seem to have given up to the extent of many people on here!

[Ray 111]

 

Feedthewolf,

 

An interesting topic - thank you, my take on it follows.

 

The human brain is hard wired to achieve, evidenced by the fact we learn to walk and talk, etc.  If you want to see this in action just watch a one year old learn to walk, no matter how many times it falls, it tries again and again until such time as walking becomes a natural subconscious occurrence.  The human brain will also move toward its dominant thoughts, hence the quote from Henry Ford, “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you are right.”  is apt.  This is why ‘mindset’ is so important.  The first person to hear what you say is you, once in formulating the words in your head and then listening to them when they come out of your mouth.  This becomes alarmingly apparent if as a footballer supporter, you have a low opinion of a player’s ability to make a pass and you see he has been named on the Team Sheet, I promise you, you will then form negative thoughts about the player’s upcoming performance and potentially verbalise them to anyone prepared to listen (or not listen as the case may be), you will then see all his passes as misplaced, or should he make a killer pass, your thoughts will be along the lines of, ‘About time, it’s only taken 20 attempts’.

 

How many people, when asked, “How are you today” reply “Oh, not too bad.”  So their dominant thought is, they are bad just not too bad, I wonder what sort of day they had?  I once heard a larger than life American reply incredibly enthusiastically to the, “How are you” question, “Awesome mate, awesome”.  I wonder what sort of day he had?

 

All of this becomes key particularly when linked with the understanding that there isn’t a single event (actions and/or words) that has any intrinsic meaning, in fact, in and of itself every event is neutral.  Of course, as individuals as soon as we become aware of the event we will give it meaning, we will overlay it with our values and beliefs, values and beliefs we have formed throughout our lifetimes.  Therefore, to be a truly successful manager, it is important to establish and help to shape mindset (values and beliefs) within the squad, whether you as the manager have the ability to do this or whether you bring in specialists to do this for you, aka a specialist goal keeping coach, is somewhat irrelevant, as long as it is part of the ‘training regime’.

 

Performance is 20% Ability plus 80% Attitude (Mindset) consequently, I hope we have the skills to hone Attitude, or are prepared to recognise its importance and take the appropriate action, it is perhaps more important now than it ever has been at Carrow Rd.