Tag: resilience
All the articles with the tag "resilience".
What Makes Players Go All In
A 12-year-old dives full-extension for a perfect game. My video game league can't finish a match without someone quitting. Same kids, opposite behaviors. The difference? Environment shapes commitment
Strong Enough To Risk Failure
Why would a kid who knows how to catch the ball let it drop? What I learned about shame, resilience, and making it safe to try.
Defeating the Hedonic Treadmill
The hedonic treadmill, named from a 1971 study of lottery winners, explains why we snap back to a happiness baseline after good and bad alike — and how a digital second brain helps me beat it.
One Lesson Coaching Baseball Taught Me
When I coached my son and his friends on a neighborhood little league baseball team, I learned an important lesson about helping kids succeed.
Day 21 - Small Town America To the Rescue
Start the day with a load of optimism... and a dead battery. But thanks to small town America I get back on the road in no time.
Practice
At every level of baseball I coached, I assessed the players in relation to the skills they possessed and the skills they needed. My goal was never to…
Break it Down
I love Will Guidara's advice to new managers, \"don't cannonball\". I realize people want to make a good impression, and prove their value, however to me…
Expectations are Invisible
This is Part 4 of My LinkedIn Series: Leadership Lessons from Little League As little league manager, I become the repository of knowledge about the game.…
Coaching Attitude and Effort
This is Part 3 of My LinkedIn Series: Leadership Lessons from Little League Baseball is interesting because players of all shapes and sizes can play any…
Learn The Game
This is the second article in my LinkedIn series on Leadership Lessons from Little League.
Leadership Lessons From Little League
About 15 years ago, the president of the Tempe Little League invited me to coach my son's Tee Ball team. A few years later, I started GameTruck, Left…
What is Better Than Winning?
'Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.' We all know the quote. But evenly matched contests are rare — so what is actually better than winning?