Let’s stop being less than the sum of our parts
Let's connect as a Gestalt. Let's create something greater than the sum of our parts. Let's connect for more, not less.
When players are giving all their attention to flawlessly executing their part in a fixed sum of parts, any fragmentation leads to uncharacteristic mistakes, and the team’s performance becomes less than the sum of the parts.
Addressing this challenge isn’t about pushing players to execute their parts with greater precision. Rather, it involves nurturing connections to create something greater than the sum of the parts—a *Gestalt*. Players observe the big picture of what is going on around them, waiting for opportunities to step in and offer previously unseen alternatives as someone’s options begin to dwindle. Players know they have each other's backs as they navigate the unknown, instilling a belief that they can achieve anything together.
However, if players neglect to consistently practice this *Gestalt*, the ability of today's technology to measure parts of a performance will divert players' and coaches attention back to perfecting the execution of parts in a fixed sum of parts. They will lose their ability for Gestalt.
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Basketball - younger teenagers, all-ability, mixed @ Bushey
Sun 08 Sept
|Bushey
We improve @ Basketball using skills to thrive in a world driven by Artificial Intelligence
Time & Location
08 Sept 2024, 18:00 – 19:00
Bushey, Aldenham Rd, Bushey WD23 2TD, UK
Guests
About the event
Everyone is given opportunities to learn the skills to move around obstacles obstructing their view, to see what they didn’t know was there. Moments that make us all go Wow.
We play in a 1.2.3 Wow zone.
Switch off the impulse to build Lego-like pieces of skills and knowledge into a specified game plan; and
Embrace a serene sense of togetherness, equilibrium, tranquility, and awareness of our surroundings, and select a micro routine of movement to initiate moving around what we see; and
Take a moment to reflect on how the micro routine of movement changed what is going on around us, then select and execute another micro routine, repeating this until we move past the things around us and see something we didn't expect to see. A moment that truly wow's us. A Wow moment.
SkillsofWow.org is the governing body for those who coach the skills of Wow.