This episode of The Daily Coach: Sports Leadership Lessons revisits the classic water jar experiment and the Einstellung effect, the tendency to keep using a familiar method even when a simpler solution is right in front of you. It explores how expertise can create rigidity, functional fixedness, and blind spots that quietly kill innovation. Leaders are reminded to interrupt their patterns, challenge assumptions, and force divergent thinking so experience stays an asset, not a constraint.

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Einstellung Effect