The By Any Means Coaches Podcast Confirmation Bias: The BIGGEST thing holding you back as a coach
"If it ain't broke don't fix it"
“Well, these drills worked for me,”
“The kids just need more reps,”
“We’ll get to that later.”
We've all heard these phrases and even used them ourselves, it a part of your evolution as a coach and as a person. We all go through our own journey's while on the pursuit of becoming our own person and coach, where it becomes harmful is when you just blindly follow and use what YOU were taught with no reflection or digging into why you're doing something or if there's even another way potentially.
Alex and I discuss the concept of confirmation bias and how a lot of us will use anything as proof to confirm a bias (ex: I'm winning games, so.... why would I change what I'm doing?), yes, you are winning games that's great - how are you winning games though? Is there nay even better way, can you repeat this, did you put any thought into this or are you just using this because your coaches did? All very important questions and reflections to ponder on your journey as a coach
If you believe in what you do, you have a reasoning that makes sense to you, you get the desired results, you can be happy with that of course. My challenge to you, is to never become satisfied and even stagnant with that though, coaching is fluid and ever changing - we work with different athletes every day that present different challenges every single practice, rep, game, etc. Be willing and even eager to find more approaches, philosophies, methods etc to help your players.
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