Have you ever noticed that every time we reach an obstacle, fail at
something or have a problem we find ourselves learning something and invariably leads to an improved 'you' a short time later.
Could this be why the best players at a sport don't always make the best coaches? Someone who is a 'natural' hasn't had to take those painful steps of deliberate practice to inch closer to success. Someone who has had this struggle knows the steps in intimate
detail as they have trodden them.
Marcus Aurelius, probably the most powerful man that has ever lived and could have had anything he wanted, religiously pushed himself to follow the hardest path through a decision or situation at all times. He knew it would make him stronger and wiser.
Eddison said that he had 10,000 attempts at the electric bulb before he got it right. Imagine where we would be if had stopped at 9,999?
When we lift weights, run up a hill, try a balance beam or just move about in daily life, we move our body.
Our brains learn every movement we do and process the good, bio mechanically correct AND the bad at all times.
Every good movement is stored and each bad one means the body gets a chance to move closer to that perfect form we all should strive for.
Making mistakes, stumbling or lifting to just past technical failure help us more than we realise...the more we do all this the finer we tune our movements.
We need these fails and wins to progress. If you don't want to fail then one way to do this is to follow the path of least resistance....however you won't
progress as fast either!
The obstacle is the way
Keep failing..but learn every time!
J
