FROM THE SIDE LINE APRIL 2018 | Page 12

Change can be a scary process for some individuals to step out of their comfort zone or into the unknown. As a result, these people may question their own abilities and experience fear of failure as well concerns about how others will see them. Even positive or constructive criticism can be seen as a personal insult in a society where we are constantly seeking praise and validation for the work we do.

“Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, being nothing” ~Aristotle.

By acknowledging the fact that we don't know everything there is to know we can start to take ownership and responsibility for our own learning and start to create our own action plan of where we want to be and how we are going to get to where we want to be.

Stage 3: Conscious Competence

In this stage we know what we know.

We are consciously aware of our surroundings and making a conscious effect

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The 4 stages

of learning

to change from a fixed mindset where intelligence is static and a desire to look smart with the tendencies to avoid challenges, give up easily, ignore useful feedback and be threatened by others success to a growth mindset where intelligence can be developed and a desire to learn with the tendencies to embrace challenges, persist, learn from criticism and be inspired by others success.

Chinese proverb says "those who say it can't be done, should get out of the way of those who are doing it".

In this stage we need to start questioning the group of coaches/players you are associated with and weather they are in fact pushing you to improve or are they really holding you

back.

Stage 4: Unconscious Competence

In this stage I'm not aware, and I know

By this stage actions/techniques have become second nature to us, we can execute them without thinking about them. Just like riding a bicycle you never forget the How but the why and when will need constant repetition to improve

Applying the 4 stages to learning a technique/skill

When a player first learns to pass a short pass they don't know to use the inside of their boots and chances are they might use their toes or their laces to pass.

With the coach going