“A kid who practices hours of sloppy pick-up basketball every day is going to develop less than a kid who practices really well for two hours a day with good instruction and feedback,” Michael Goldstein, one of the best teacher trainers in the country, recently told us.
John Wooden seems to concur, offering would-be coaches this singular advice: “Never mistake activity for achievement.”
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What can one say about George Clooney?
Leaving aside his job as an actor, in the following 22:31 minute interview with Charlie Rose, the affect that Clooney leaves with me – is of someone who is comfortable in his own skin, self-assured and playful.
Here is the LINK to the interview clip.
I posit that by watching good actors, whether in films or in interviews like this, you can always come away with some insight, or a model that you might adapt to your own speaking and presenting.
For me, what I’ll take away from the clip is a reminder to be playful at work. To take my work seriously (but not too seriously) while being light about myself.
What will you take away?
p.s. Check out his post with insight from legendary US basketball coach – The Wizard of Westwood – John Wooden.
Continue readingJohn Wooden, legendary US basketball coach taught in chunks, using what he called the ‘whole-part method’. He would teach his players an entire move and then he would chunk the entire move into individual parts.
I read about this particular Wooden technique in the book, The Talent Code, by Daniel Coyle. (a good book I’d recommend).Continue reading