"Mentoring is the only shortcut to excellence."
Everyone benefits from coaching. Dr. Atul Gawande, author of The Checklist Manifesto and Being Mortal, hired a surgeon to oversee his technique. Kentucky Coach John Calipari has a Personal Board of Directors, a group of trusted advisors, with whom he meets periodically.
Mentors help us examine our strengths, weakness, and process. We decide how to use that advice through creating better habits and tracking our progress.
Long-term become your own coach. Make lifelong learning a priority to become a "learn-it-all" not a know-it-all.
- Be specific. Ask how you can improve.
- Ask better questions.
- Pay attention to details like footwork for hitting, hand position for blocking and setting.
- Practice more efficiently by finding workout partners.
- Be a tracker. "Winners are trackers."
Establish better habits - pick, stick, check.
- Pick habits that will help you improve skill, strategy, physicality, and psychology
- Stick to them. Find ways to make them easier (e.g. take your gym gear with you)
- Check that you are fulfilling your habits. "Don't miss twice."
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