We have many rules in this world. Be it for the traffic, the best relationship, the working rules and many more. The thing with rules are, when you follow them, many will get to the goals they want. Follow the rules in business, you get more sales. Your business grows bigger. Sure there are things in building success, but when you solve it, you will get to another different level, higher level.
Many have said about talent in top pros, but many has overlooked the things they do to become “talented”.
One of the most important things is practice practice and practice.
Mathew Syed in his book Bounce have describe this bery well. This is what the book is all about. Some of it.
I have came across the summary of the books in https://www.samuelthomasdavies.com/book-summaries/psychology/bounce/
One:
“If we believe that attaining excellence hinges on talent, we are likely to give up if we show insufficient early promise”.
We can’t base results on talent. Talent is built with a lot of practices through years. When we see talent, it is not actually born with it. It is just the tip of the iceberg. The effort to build things up until everybody around seeing it as “talent” is huge. Some may have built it coincidenttally since they have the access to playing more.
Two:
The iceberg illusion: “When we witness extraordinary feats of memory (or of sporting or artistic prowess) we are witnessing the end product of a process measured in years. What is invisible to us – the submerged evidence, as it were – is the countless hours of practice that have gone into the making of the virtuoso performance: the relentless drills, the mastery of technique and form, the solitary concentration that have, literally, altered the anatomical and neurological structures of the master performer. What we do not see is what we might call the hidden logic of success”.
The hidden logic of success is where parents and coches need to ponder. There is no one night wonder to be champion. The thing with champion is, the have a mindset to do better and more than anyone else.
Three:
“Speed in sport is not based on innate reaction speed, but derived from highly specific practice”.
When you looked at the speed in sports, one is better in tennis but not in other sports. Even the player is the world champ in one sport, that person is no where in other sports. Because of the specificity of practices and training that took place over the years. No body can be good in everything.
Four:
“It is also worth noting that the development of motor expertise (skilled movement) is inseparable from the development of perceptual expertise (chunking patterns)”.
Experience plays key role in the above statement. The players need to have learn the things they need in sports. This comes to thounsands of match plays to players to gain more experience. Every players that they met, win or lose will make them better player through experience. This is the thing that could not be passed down by coaches, parents or peers.
Five:
“The essential problem regarding the attainment of excellence is that expert knowledge simply cannot be taught in the classroom over the course of a rainy afternoon, or indeed a thousand rainy afternoons”.
Players need to experience this themselves. Once they have the understanding of the game and sports, the make better decision on courts. This is where building thinking players comes from, through experiences.
A lot of good books out there to be read to gain knowledge on how to build a good player. Parents and coaches should look for it and invrease knowledge on how to do it. Once the understanding of how things should be done, its easier for crafting the journey of players.
No matter what goals you have for your kids, knowledge will not give you harm.