Fosbury Flop drawer #01
In the Fosbury Flop drawer I keep the things that have empowered me to live —and coach— better. I like to share them but I prefer to add new ones. Feel free to let us know yours!
“We coaches always think that everyone’s ideas are great, but ours are better.”
—Pep Guardiola
A Treatise on Efficacy: Between Western and Chinese Thinking | François Jullien
“Those sources [of efficacy] are different from those of the European tradition, or at least the tradition that has come down to us from the Greeks: a tradition that conceives of efficacy on the basis of abstract, ideal forms, set up as models to be projected onto the world and that our will deliberately establishes as a goal to be attained. […] It is a tradition of means and ends, or of the interrelation between theory and practice. But far away in China, we discover a concept of efficacy that teaches one to learn how to’ allow an effect to come about: not to aim for it (directly) but to implicate it (as a consequence), in other words, not to seek it, but simply to welcome it —to allow it to result. The ancient Chinese tell us that it is enough to know how to make the most of the way a situation develops and to let yourself be 'carried' along by it. You do not rack your brains, you do not struggle or strive. But that is not at all because you wish to disengage from the world; rather, it is the better to succeed in it. […] The Chinese general does not merely exploit all the aspects of the topography and the state of the troops that may be unfavorable to the enemy. He also manipulates the situation in such a way that his own troops are driven to display the maximum degree of ardor: all he needs to do is to lead them into a perilous situation from which the only way out is to fight as hard as they can. Being unable to retreat, they are forced to fight as hard as possible. He does not ask his troops to be naturally courageous, as if courage were an intrinsic virtue, but forces them to be courageous by placing them in a dangerous situation in which they are forced, despite themselves, to fight bravely. When the opponent is in the same situation, he allows them a small escape route to don’t create the same effect. 'Having penetrated deeply into danger, they are no longer afraid'; 'no longer knowing where to turn, they resist'; 'with no alternative, they fight'.”
Robert Hristovski. Dynamical Systems and Complexity | Linking Theory and Practice
I finished this podcast from the research group Complex Systems in Sport with many ideas... and with the desire to communicate as well as Robert does.
I wish you way more than luck!
Una abraçada,
Martí Cañellas | Fosbury Flop
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