The Way of Coaching

There’s a serious cart before the horse problem when it comes to performance and happiness.  It’s not that success leads to happier athletes.  It’s happier athletes that are more likely to be successful.  Of course, this applies to all kinds of success criteria.  Both the unhealthy artificially created extrinsic outcomes of sport… which true coaches put no stock in but also the true success of consistently being able to access maximum effort and available skill with a growth trajectory.