07-11-2011, 08:26 PM
Clement /Angus
The starting point of the talk I went to was to ask the question "What is talent?" and when top achievers are asked they usually give credit to their willingness and ability to work hard, the ability to recover from an upset, support of familly and friends and so on. 'Natural talent' comes as low as 6th.
I recommend the following document, which is a summary of the talk:-
http://www.sisport.com/sisport/files/Tal...Web%29.pdf
Its created by the Sportscotland Institute of Sport.
Angus,
All humans respond to praise but the point of the research by Carol Dweck (some good UTube recordings of experiments) show that some 'praise' actually has a negative on a players development. With adults the effect is probably just a little more subtle.
If you are looking to determine who is best today for an event next week then you are right that a pb is a good objective measure but as I said before, if you're looking to try and workout who to back as a future champion it is useless and that was the starting point of the exercise.
Must disagree with you again - coaches and people with experience are vital to a players development, in swimming they are the swimmers eyes. They can see what the swimmer is doing and can explain why and what to do to correct it. It is the same in chess.
The starting point of the talk I went to was to ask the question "What is talent?" and when top achievers are asked they usually give credit to their willingness and ability to work hard, the ability to recover from an upset, support of familly and friends and so on. 'Natural talent' comes as low as 6th.
I recommend the following document, which is a summary of the talk:-
http://www.sisport.com/sisport/files/Tal...Web%29.pdf
Its created by the Sportscotland Institute of Sport.
Angus,
All humans respond to praise but the point of the research by Carol Dweck (some good UTube recordings of experiments) show that some 'praise' actually has a negative on a players development. With adults the effect is probably just a little more subtle.
If you are looking to determine who is best today for an event next week then you are right that a pb is a good objective measure but as I said before, if you're looking to try and workout who to back as a future champion it is useless and that was the starting point of the exercise.
Must disagree with you again - coaches and people with experience are vital to a players development, in swimming they are the swimmers eyes. They can see what the swimmer is doing and can explain why and what to do to correct it. It is the same in chess.