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 put all their attention onto executing their parts within a fixed sum of parts, and it fragments, players make uncharacteristic mistakes. 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 between the parts to allow players 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 feel like everyone is supporting them to succeed by exploring the unknown.
However, we must keep practicing *Gestalt*, as the ever increasing ability of technology to measure parts of a performance diverts our attention to perfecting a fixed sum of parts.
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Basketball - younger teenagers, all ability, mixed, @ Bushey (16)
Sun 12 Jan
|Bushey
Younger teenager of all abilities play basketball to experience feeling more human than machine.
Time & Location
12 Jan 2025, 18:00 – 19:00
Bushey, Aldenham Rd, Bushey WD23 2TD, UK
Guests
About the event
We use our physicality to create space for maneuvering around opponents not going through them or stopping them. Relationships run the play. While this approach gives us more time to execute our basketball skills, leading to improvement, the primary aim is for us all to share an experience of feeling more human than machine. To improve by being more human than machine.
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