9/ Training programs: Danaher is biased, he's dedicated his life to create the best training program for jujitsu.
(Amongst other things, Danaher invented a system for performing leg locks that made leg locking acceptable in jujitsu; it was mostly ignored before).
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10/ "I believe that all of the students I've taught who became world champions would've been great athletes whether they met me or not, but I also do believe that it would have taken them much longer, and maybe not to the level that they got."
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11/ There's a lot of evidence for this — "Look at Russia; the number of people who wrestle in Russia is smaller than the number of people who wrestle in the United States."
"Ostensibly if it comes down to numbers, the US should dominate in the Olympics ..."
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12/ Danaher does say that there are confounding factors (e.g. the US does a different style of wrestling), but at some point "you have to ask what they're doing differently (in training)".
(The Judo equivalent, btw, is Kosovo. Tiny war-torn country. 3 Olympic gold medalists.)
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13/ They then get to, in my opinion, the most interesting part: "the majority of what creates success is the interaction between the athlete and the training program — the training program is one thing, the most important thing, but right behind that is the athlete."
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14/ "People always talk about the athletes I've trained successfully, they never talk about the athletes I've trained unsuccessfully.
"Always remember for every champion a coach produces, there's 100 people they coached that people've never heard of. And that's perfectly normal"
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15/ Lex asks the obvious question: "What makes the difference between those you've coached successfully, and those you didn't?"
"Persistence."
"What kind of persistence?"
"Persistence in THINKING."
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16/ And then the final bit, which illustrates what persistence in thinking looks like:
“Travis Stevens made this comment, at the end of a good training session, your mind should be exhausted, not your body.”
“That’s absolutely right.”
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17/ Apply that to your skill domain however you will.
My takeaway is that you really only grow when you're sensemaking — that is, when you're (heh) making sense of your experiences and coming up with new ideas to test.
Doing the same thing again and again isn't practice.
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How does this incremental approach fit with the idea that for huge improvements we need to completely switch mental models?
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I’m assuming you’re talking about commoncog.com/blog/the-hard-
It’s not mutually exclusive. We learn through trial and error cycles, but only make progress in discontinuous jumps when we can unlearn old mental models.
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Make sense, after all you can't even spot opportunities for leaping if you are not actively reflecting regularly.
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