You gather a foundation when you learn by reading, watching, assimilating, asking questions, and comprehending – that is foundational learning. But real learning? Real understanding? You learn by doing. If you’re not doing, you’re not learning.
I never put “Focus Time” into my calendar but it’s now such a thing that we see it all the time in everyone’s calendar. I’ve done this a few times myself just to get work done – it feels wrong to schedule something that I used to feel was so completely spontaneous and now the work that I love has to be scheduled to complete. I’m trying to figure out how to reverse the trend…
Scoring an open-net goal should be easy, but it’s not. It’s the dream, there is no opposition, no complicated shot needed and all you need to do is drag it in with a little tap. And yet we miss so many of them. We become hyper-focused on not missing because it should be an easy goal, it should be a guaranteed gimme but instead, we forget everything we have practiced up until that point -…
They don’t do Hurdles on Hills. Probably because it would be insanely difficult. No one would ever think to try it. You would probably get hurt more often than not. But if you did do it, you would probably develop muscles you never knew you had to propel yourself further up the hill, against gravity past the hill. You would probably need to be more aware of your surroundings when pushing up and you would…
The implicit goal behind any training is growth. It can mask itself in a job, in a game, or in the final outcome of a hobby. But it’s everything before that, which is growing and which matters to those big moments. And yes, training is hard, that’s because you can’t always see the end while you’re doing it. That’s why it’s called training.