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095 - Why You Get Worse Before You Get Better
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Ever started working on a skill and suddenly felt like you were performing worse instead of improving? That’s not failure — that’s the learning process doing exactly what it’s supposed to do. In this episode, we break down why performance often drops right after coaching, feedback, or technique changes, and how that frustrating phase is actually the gateway to mastery.
You’ll learn the four stages of skill development, why confidence crashes before it climbs, and how elite athletes push through the uncomfortable middle stage where most people quit. Whether you’re a coach, athlete, or leader, this episode will help you reframe struggle as progress and give you a mental model you can use to train smarter, stay patient, and build real competence.
Key Takeaway: Feeling worse doesn’t mean you’re regressing — it means you’re becoming aware. And awareness is where improvement begins.
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Introduction to Feedback in Learning and Podcast Overview
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Action! If your confidence drops after you receive feedback, then congratulations, you're finally starting to learn. Welcome to the Captains & Coaches Podcast. We explore the art the science of leadership through the lens of athletics and be beyond.
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Today is all about learning skill. Beginner's luck is real. The more you play, it suddenly feels like you start to get worse.
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You hit the ball fine. Then somebody started to give you feedback, critique, tips, tools, and you were listening intently and focused on applying them, and everything started to fall apart. You were missing shots, shortened putts, ball was going off wherever you were not aiming, timing was off, and confidence fell off.
Understanding Feedback and its Impact on Performance
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drop to the middle of nowhere. You think, what's wrong with me? I'm going to tell you something that might change the way you're training forever. That frustration is not failure, it's progress, a sign that you're finally starting to learn how to do that skill.
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We're going to dive into what's known as the competency model, conscious competency model. I first ran into this in grad school. In health behavior change, we were learning tons of different models for connecting, educating, and leading people to healthy behaviors.
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Then about four years later, it was then reintroduced to me through a lens of athletics from an amazing coach named Mark Watts. He used to do a lot of education materials for Elite FTS.
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Awesome stuff. he's He's an amazing coach. Amazing man. He's out there. D3 All-Star as well. So then he taught me to look at skill development and progress through the lens of this competency model. I continue now to work that into my training of coaches, my education, and then a lot of the tools and questions when I get new athletes or advanced athletes, I'm going to give you the questions that I ask to try to gauge where we are at, what level of learning, what level of competency, to see then what feedback I give them.
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Instead of just seeing and giving feedback that I think is appropriate for them to try to fix it, I need to find out where they're at, what level of learning that they believe they're in to see if they are willing to receive feedback from me.
The Conscious Competency Model in Sports Coaching
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All right, so stage one. This is known as unconscious incompetence. You don't know what you don't know. This is where everyone starts. You don't understand the skill, and you don't realize you don't understand it. That's that beginner's luck.
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It feels like it's always going in and you're just winging it. No conscious effort or focus or I mean even aim sometimes. This stage, it's blind confidence, it's blissful ignorance, and highlight real illusions.
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I see this all the time with a sport of lacrosse. You get baseball guys that are going to the game to watch their friends And they pick up this little fiddle stick just like this. And my my buddy, Coach Cav, tells this hilarious story. Johns Hopkins University brings him in. He's working speed, agility.
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With Paul Rabel, one of the greatest players of all time, Hall of Famer. and can teach that man speed, but he just picks up a stick, tries to follow through, overthinks it, and then hits hits himself in the junk. Hilarious story from Coach Cav there. But that's that unconscious incompetence. You don't know how bad you are, so you just go in there with, ah, this is going to be easy.
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And I mean, anyone that ever tries golf, I do this every time I go to a bachelor party, and then it takes me a minute to realize and remember, oh yeah, no. yeah No, I'm bad.
00:03:46
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ah Yeah, it's that doesn't look that hard or the the freshman who comes in and believes that they could start on varsity. So there's a fun beginner's luck side of this, but there's also a limiting portion of this where you are not willing to listen to anyone in the feedback they that they have for you.
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You believe that you're better than them and you know it. That is unconscious incompetence. You don't value any of the feedback, the coaching that people are trying to help you and give you there.
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And sometimes it's not a disrespectful, but sometimes it is, that arrogant side of things. So that's why I always have specific questions that I go in with athletes to make sure that they're not in this and they're willing to listen to to anyone.
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right Coach me the otherwise. And this this stage, it's it's it's not that you lack the skill. It's just you don't have the tools yet to start to understand the depth and the complexity of a skill.
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And that's what we would need to do. The problem is it's a lack of awareness. Could be spatial awareness. A lot of the high school athletes that I'm working with, it's more their own body awareness that prevents them from to learning this. Then you start to add in the the stress of an opponent and the layers and the complexity of sport, and it can be overwhelming and daunting.
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um so this unconscious incompetence you don't know what you're missing and you don't go looking for it some guys catch the bug oh this is fun and that's why being such a good coach with a positive attitude and encouraging especially when people are trying new stuff they're going to stick around because of how you made them feel versus whatever's going on with the skill set that they're learning and it's you're stuck in this stage from the positive sense until you have a wake-up call that you're willing to listen to you miss a shot you did it your way versus the way that coach is asking you to do and it failed it let you down it let your team down it's
00:05:59
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game film often it's a moment where it breaks you out of this unconscious incompetence and you're finally willing to learn a place that you can learn and value that feedback you're made aware of the gap of where you want to go and where you actually are versus the inverse of that and that moment as ah uncomfortable as it is it's actually the doorway to growth So when I see i kids, athletes, whoever working on this, and I've been very fortunate to travel to six continents,
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And then our first warm-up session in any of the lectures and presentations and clinics and seminars that I ran, it was all about this, finding out if they are in a position to learn.
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If they're not, then it's teaching them something, breaking them down, and showing something that they were completely unaware of that is broken in their movement, a weakness, and something like that.
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So I love to use simple isometrics and pillars when working in the strength and conditioning field to find this out. If it's sports skill, example I'm going to use with the lacrosse guys, I ask them, hey, did you notice?
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And then mention this. Because are they moving with intent or are they just winging it? If they're still in the winging stage, hey, we're going to have fun. It's going to be a great time.
00:07:22
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If they're actually trying and failed to know what their elbows were doing or they forgot to step on a throw. Okay, well, let's bring some awareness to that. How I go about this is always starting with setup corrections.
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Point your shoulder, step, throw. And I keep it very simple within those forms of of feedback and cues and directions that I get them give them. I get them set up well,
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give them some step-by-step instructions to see if they can flow through that steps, and I just set them free. But I keep reverting back to, okay, now reset.
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Try it again. Point your shoulder, step, throw. Then when they start to get that pattern, then I can add one more thing for them to to fix on, which with lacrosse, usually it's just finish pointing your stick at your partner versus allowing it to stop short like a ah like a catapult.
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So then I'm using very visual ah representations like a catapult. They know what a catapult is and it stops short. Finish pointing at your partner. So I'm using visuals that are outside of athletics, outside of sports.
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When we're playing defense, I need you to get as big as a bear. Get out there. Get in front of them. So those are great alliterations, opportunities for us to to put representations in their brain if they have no reference to what the skill is.
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One of my favorites is we know the Spider-Man meme. We got the three Spider-Mans. They recreated it in that last Spider-Man movie. with Tobey Maguire, the best Spider-Man. They recreated that.
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So now when I'm playing defense, I need to see my man and I need to see the ball. Okay, Spider-Man meme. I'm not just going to look at my man and lose sight of the ball. So that's an example. Okay, we're in an unconscious, incompetent stage. I'm going to use examples from other sports, from movies, very visual stuff, to help paint the picture and then draw them into the the enthusiasm in the sport of something that clicks for them.
00:09:37
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So it's it's also anatomical corrections, turning your your your thumb in on that or finishing snapping your wrist just like this. So setup fixes, tactical cues I like to use in there, giving them a target to hit, and then modeling demos are going to be a great example.
00:09:59
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So, hey, watch me and aim to do it just like me. Or watch number four on this play, see what they do. And then you're next up, I want you do exactly what they do. So it's a lot of vague stuff, but enthusiasm that I'm bringing with a coach to keep them encouraged because the next phase is where everybody I mean, they will fail. It's just what they decide to do with that failure. So understanding unconscious incompetence, you don't know how bad you are and you can't even receive the feedback that's given to you
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because you have no reference point of what that is until you do. So now we're going to get into stage
Navigating the Stages of Skill Acquisition
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two here. This is conscious incompetence. You know what you don't know.
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And that gap, and you're staring up at the super skilled players, and you're like, wow, I don't know if I can do that. And this is the hardest stage mentally. That's why you have to, in my opinion, as a coach, be very enthusiastic and set the tone for the environment and the culture of the weight room or the team that you're building.
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So through this dark dip, they stick around. and they see that gap, they're staring at that mountain, they feel it, they can't ignore it.
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And this is this is really where we need to dive into specific mechanics phase. Use lacrosse again because it's an ambidextrous sport. You get really good with your right hand and then you have success, but then you gotta learn to use your left hand as well.
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So we are doubling down on proper mechanics because your creativity, the way you got away with stuff earlier, is not going to fly. So the mechanics phase and just repetition, reps, get used to failing, get used to feedback, and then making corrections and restarting to good setup and execution stuff. So I like to refer to this as the mechanics phase, where we are aiming to fix everything and reframing failure for them as that feedback so they
00:12:08
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are not hyper focused on a mistake. They're hyper awarere aware of what their body did to then miss that shot or make that mistake. There's ah so much there's potential embarrassment here, doubt, fear, frustration.
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They need a mentor through this this phase. Otherwise, they will quit when they realize how much they suck. I love to say this too. They're going to suck a lot until they don't. So let's keep showing up.
00:12:37
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And again the this is where a lot of your kids are going to quit when they're in that if they're not there for their teammates if they feel discouraged at any point and it's it's not because they can't improve but their confidence dropped and then they don't believe that they can improve their confidence so that's where coaching needs to get in they feel that they're regressing or they weren't born to do this No, we are just finally in a position that we can learn.
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And it awareness is the gateway to mastery. So here's some of the questions and that I ask to see if they're starting to to break through from stage one to stage two, from unconscious incompetence to conscious incompetence.
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What were you aiming for? Now, a stage one person, they'd be like, I don't know, just shooting, throwing as hard as I could. Okay, cool. Now, what were you aiming for? If I know what you're aiming for, now we can adjust the mechanics to then hit that target.
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Or if I'm off by two, three feet, three yards. Okay. Well then let's direct our, our shoulder or whatever we're pointing at our aim.
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And we can start to get closer to there. So my question is, what are we aiming for? If they give me an answer, okay, we're in, we're in stage two. This is great. We were trying, we were just way off the mark.
00:14:06
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So bring some enthusiasm and coach the hell out of them. What were you, trip another question, what were you trying to do there?
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I don't know. Okay. They're phase one. Next rep, I want you to try this. What were you doing on there? Well, i I thought this and i I thought that and then, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I shouldn't have done that.
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If it's that negative talk and, hey, I i tried to do that or I saw that, I just couldn't get the ball a position that they now they're in a position that they kind of know what to do or trying something, their body was incapable or not coordinated enough to accomplish that or didn't have the strength, the power, the speed to do that.
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And that's okay. we We need more reps. We need more opportunity to get that. Here's where I lean into external cues. And I love the the research between external and internal cues.
00:15:03
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Internal cue would be really focusing on the mind-muscle connection. for weightlifting and from doing hammer curls, an internal cue would be to, all right, curl that weight up and I want you to squeeze and feel the pump within that bicep.
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And then we're going to control that weight down. So I'm asking them to feel internally and external. curl, cue, which would just be like freaking swing, swing, swing, squeeze, swing, squeeze.
00:15:35
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So it's it's external. It's an action-based throw, jump, push, drive. Those would be examples of external cues. So if we're living in phase two, I'm going to make sure they're set up and I'm leaning heavily into external cues. Push, drive, pal, throw.
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Dive, dip, du dodge, dodge. I messed up the order there. But you get it the old patches of hula hands. That's it. He's great at external cues.
00:16:08
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So we're in that learning stage and it's always about the next rep. You're allowed to make that mistake, but now get back to the next rep. And modeling demos also beneficial here.
00:16:21
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However, I like to also film them and show their shooting technique or go to game film of, hey, this is what we need to do or needed to do, or here's one really good rep that you did.
00:16:35
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And now here's a rep where we didn't we didn't do that. We made a mistake. So that lean into film for both the great model, the Ken Griffey Jr. swing, but also show them their swing.
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We are acknowledging that gap. We're not being overly super positive here. No. We're acknowledging the road from where they are to where they want to go, how hard it's going to be, and it's going to be a climb.
00:17:03
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Check out the episode I did, Reframing Failure for Teenagers. it's It's basically anchored within this phase two of conscious incompetence. I know they're going to break through with enough reps and enough time.
00:17:17
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It's just a matter of keeping them engaged and focused and part of the team. Okay, moving right along with enough reps, with enough time, you get into stage three. This is conscious competence.
00:17:32
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You can do it. You just really have to focus and concentrate on the execution of the movement. Now the athlete, they can perform each of the skills. They have the confidence to get it done.
00:17:47
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Unfortunately, it takes a lot of effort, focus, and intention. All wonderful things, but if they distract us from other things we need to be aware of, that's where the challenge lies. If they are so focused on a movement execution that they miss the open person,
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or they were not aware of the shot clock or the game scenario or the the down and distance or the old Chris Webber calling a timeout he didn't have.
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So they are so focused that their situational awareness decreases. and i mean, the quarterback position, as an example, is so overwhelming. You've got to check the safety. You've got to read the linebacker.
00:18:37
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You've got to then, okay, remember the snap count that you told your guys, then hike, focusing on your footwork, then reading which linebacker.
00:18:49
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throw the defense is giving you, then accurately making that throw, hoping that your team blocked the guys that were coming after you. like And that's just one play.
00:19:00
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And you've got remember the whole freaking playbook. They can do this. It's a matter of, okay, are they just focused on their footwork? Are they just, okay, I'm locked in.
00:19:12
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I'm just going to throw it to route one here, period. End of story. Whether he's open or not. So you're going see a lot of mistakes of guys not reading correctly. They're focusing on their footwork. Again, questions after plays are going to help us understand where they're at within this stage.
00:19:32
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um The crowd noise, pressure in this stage, fatigue. all affect performance here because they lost focus or it pulled them out or distracted them.
00:19:47
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Excuses begin to pop up and of why they are unable to do something consistently. I saw this all the time in in college, just running sprints, right? A kid takes off. He's the fastest guy, but we got to run 10 of them.
00:20:04
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So then you know he goes up goes up limp. Oh, I didn't win that last one. ah Yeah, so saw a lot of that. I mean, in in goodness gracious in football, when you see a cornerback beat, how they come up off the field? hey they They're limping off.
00:20:21
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So pride, ego is going to be affected a lot of this. And we need repetition with purpose.
00:20:32
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And film study just goes so long for us to recalling the situational awareness and being aware of what we did also on that play. And a lot of i know a lot of fun lacrosse drills that I throw at the guys for this situational awareness goal. And I talk a lot about this in the Why They're Not Listening course.
00:20:54
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Ultimately, we want to lead guys to high situational awareness, but it is a process ah to get there. and no i know this is so difficult no mindless reps no lazy reps no rushed reps those are just missed time for us to progress through phase three we need deliberate practice anders ericsson amazing book peak deliberate practice this is the stage most champions they they live in the longest
00:21:26
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and think about the four years of a college sport it takes you to learn that and then you level up into the professional leagues and you almost have to re-go through all of this with a denser playbook more situationally aware people that are then reading film on you and and doing all that so Expect to stay a lot of time in this on each part of the different skills. And then when you put all the skills together, you need to go through again, phase two and three again.
00:21:58
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And so you'll spend a lot of time within three. If they've made it through phase two once with the skill and then they level up from junior varsity to varsity or high school varsity to college and they have the right encouragement,
00:22:14
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there's a high likelihood they'll get to this stage three. The challenge, however, it's slow. If I'm so focused on this, I'm missing things around me and it's slow versus the free flowing and fast.
00:22:29
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Questions I like to ask this, how did it feel? Whether it's a shot, a pass or play, what's going on out there? What'd you see out there?
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what What did number four do? So now asking them not what they did or we're thinking, what did another player on their team do? Or what's what's the defense giving you out there?
00:22:53
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So high awareness questions to make sure that they're not so internally focused on themselves. For weightlifting, shooting, individual skills, hey, how'd that feel?
00:23:07
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What'd you feel on that one? for now, complex, high situational awareness stuff like practices and games, then what were you thinking there? what ah Talk me through that play.
00:23:23
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For my team's defense, we give up a goal. You've got to huddle up. You've got to talk about it. And somebody's got to bring that back to me. What was the problem? What was the solution? And see if I can accurately shape their conscious competence.
00:23:37
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So that way, next time, it's just read and react, which brings us to our our next phase. Ultimate goals, get to phase four here, is unconscious competence, where everything is just second nature.
00:23:49
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for minor skills like footwork, catching, passing, and throwing, we want to get here as quick as possible so we can stack the more advanced stuff onto them.
00:24:01
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this is i mean this is being in the zone. And there's phenomenal, I had amazing teammates that got in the zone. I've experienced the zone where it's just playing lights out out of my mind. It is awesome. And I've seen athletes go there, and it is a ah beautiful, creative,
00:24:19
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place to be and witness and watch. And I'm sure all of you have seen that as well. So it's it's automatic. There's no checklist for them to go through. It's think, feel, read, react.
00:24:33
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Program's got a great quote about that. Greatest football movie all time. Maybe, maybe not. Maybe the greatest college football movie of all time. The program.
00:24:44
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it's I mean, it's just flow. What I'm talking about, not the movie. I guess Latimer's got flow. All right, I digress. So... Yeah, I mean, soccer players, they are our eyes up. They're not thinking about dribbling the ball right in front of them. There's so many different sports examples we could use. Needless to say, the aim here is to do the intangibles, the skills, the approaches, the stick work, all that little stuff so much that it just becomes this unconscious competence and our eyes can be up.
00:25:16
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our focus can be on the field our ears can be open for what coach has to say and we block out the crowd noise and we hear the voices that matter the most for our success and performance on the field that's unconscious competence and then i was talking to my lacrosse head coach about this and he says that it was an amazing thing and guys he played with they were thinking two passes ahead or they missed a shot and they didn't need to listen to a coach.
00:25:49
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They had so many reps at this that they made the self correction. So they did not make that mistake again because they had so many reps at this. Okay. Need to make this adjustment. That won't happen again.
00:26:01
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um The challenge, this stage is not permanent and it's going to ebb and flow by the term the different skills that we're learning. So the Also, it's going to be challenged by overconfidence.
00:26:17
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Remember I talked about the overconfidence with the beginner's luck? It's also going to live here. And this is why I love weightlifting, because they're there is no mastery. We can always do more. We can always move faster.
00:26:29
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We can improve that quality. Or I can do stuff before to then manipulate that and challenge it. Or a lot of stuff we do in the Old Bull program, I've done it. I can't even tell you about a number of squats that I've done in my lifetime or heavy pulls.
00:26:45
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So now it's manipulating the body to see how we can challenge the the body to still focus on an excellent hinge where my feet are manipulated or up and down and all this different foot position. So that's an example of us throwing different challenges to pull us into conscious incompetence conscious competence to eventually pull us into this mastery.
00:27:12
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And it's it is a beautiful thing. I see this with leaders all the time. They are super great individual athletes, but then assholes. Because they forgot that they were once freshmen.
00:27:26
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So in this stage, I like to give people responsibilities. My focus, again, it's it's not skill mastery. It's situational awareness. So sucking them out of their their their pain cave and creating awareness. OK, here's the stopwatch. I need 30 seconds of this.
00:27:46
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And I give it to a kid. He's got a countdown. The team suffers there. Because if they go to their pain cave and disappear, the clock is still running. I need them aware.
00:27:58
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So i I give responsibility. I do small things like the stopwatch or go ask them to go ask somebody else to do this for me. When they're super tired, can they execute that? How do they do it? Do they yell and bark at them?
00:28:12
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Or do they ask them like ah like a leader should, like a gentleman warrior should? things to think about. So it removes the focus from the skill, but I still expect perfection with the skill and them aiming to accomplish whatever responsibility or extra task or threat that I give them.
00:28:33
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And I also encourage creativity and take by taking things away, ah creating spaces on the court or the field that they have to avoid.
00:28:48
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Avoid the noid, we could call it. I could be the sixth man on a basketball court. You've got to avoid me. I'm going to be an extra threat there. guess that would make me the noid. No, I'm not going to that. I'll put in another player out there to be the noid to avoid.
00:29:02
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um And then my favorite for this stage is go teach somebody else that. Having the varsity team go teach the middle school. or having our our seniors teach our freshmen, whatever it may be, and have somebody else lead something, teach that, one, because they're going to see how difficult coaching and teaching somebody something is, and two, it forces them to think on this level and be more aware of what else.
00:29:30
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And I'm listening to that and then going through their instruction and say, well, what if what do they do if this happens? Oh, okay, yeah, then then then do this.
00:29:41
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So it's helping reinforce that. So coaching cues here, responsibilities, creativity, go teach somebody something else. And coach, you listen to them and see what they're forgetting.
00:29:53
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Because again, there's that's that's gaps in their knowledge. They may be so freakishly athletic that they can forego fundamentals and just be phenomenal at that.
00:30:05
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How I would break through that is, hey, go teach somebody something. What skip what steps are they skipping that I need to remind them, hopefully, that they're not, but hopefully they become more aware of that in their own game.
00:30:19
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Something think about.
Supporting Athletes Through the Learning Process
00:30:20
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So we have unconscious incompetence. We got conscious incompetence. conscious competence, and then unconscious competence. That's that flow state magic.
00:30:30
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As a coach, I'd encourage you get to stage two as fast as possible and encourage coach promote, bring your energy and your enthusiasm. When you start to see the negative body language or the negative speak towards each other or the frustration, that's what you're here for. That's why you're guiding. It is super easy to coach really advanced players. It's difficult to coach the ones that are frustrated and ready to quit because they believe that they suck.
00:31:04
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go back to my Pygmalion effect episode talk about the effect of your beliefs about somebody else and If you're in this game long enough, you've coached a lot of people through the same stage too.
00:31:18
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If you're in a high school unit, you can call out the best player on the team to the new player that believes that they suck and be like, dude, I remember when number four was this bad.
00:31:29
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It was hilarious. And now look at him because he stuck it out. He focused. He did this. um So think about how you can encourage them to break and fight through that conscious incompetence, that that stage two there.
00:31:44
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And that's where the value is. Lean into correct correction, seek critique, invite coaching. That's the attitude that we want them to have. But how are we correcting them?
00:31:56
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How are we critiquing them? How are we coaching them that even allows them? Blissful ignorance feels really good.
00:32:07
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Like I mentioned, that's me on a golf course at a bachelor party. I'm not even keeping score. I'm at a great time. I'm staying in that blissful ignorance for my abilities.
00:32:18
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Painful awareness builds greatness, however. And that's a mindset, that's a switch that athletes want to take if they're ready. And we as coaches can guide them through that threshold.
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So stay coachable, stay curious, stay in the reps.
Conclusion and Additional Resources
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All right, thank you for tuning in and helping us raise the game. And see