"Read. Read. Read. Read. Read."

"How you do anything is how you do everything." 

Director Werner Herzog shares simple advice for his students. "Read. Read. Read. Read. Read."

He assigns The Peregrine to them. 

Gary Fowke recently shared an MVB team picture. Like the peregrine on a page, that picture won't be seen again. 

In The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande informs that a building is a living thing. The framing is the skeleton, plumbing is circulation, ventilation is respiration, electrical is the nervous system.

Teams likewise are living beings with infinite complexity among the coach-player, coach-coach, and player-player interactions. You may know the expression, "it takes a village to raise a child." Do you know the corollary, "and one child can destroy a village?" 

Anna Karenina tells the story of an incredibly gifted but horrifically needy woman and her impact on everyone around her. Tolstoy's first sentence is telling, "Every happy family is alike and every unhappy family is unhappy in a different way."

Team sports teaches lessons in collaboration, growth, excellence, negotiation, justice, and more. Make the experience a great one by realizing that every happy family is alike. 

Lagniappe. Take up space in the server's head. 

"Position yourself to handle the most likely serves."