Brett Bartholomew

Are sports parents getting in the way of your team’s success? If you’re struggling with today’s sports parents, you are not alone. Headlines like following are common: How Parents are Ruining Sports Sports Parents, We Have a Problem The Nightmare Sports Parent Parents become obstacles not because they want to be a problem but because there is a lack of collaboration to support the athlete and the team. As a coach, you can be part of the solution.

The job of scientists is a tough one – to take complex, multifaceted, messy concepts, and do their best to simplify them in a way that is understandable and digestible to the general public. However, today’s guest, Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett,  warns that if something is too simple, we probably shouldn’t believe it. Especially when it comes to human behavior and emotions, there’s nothing simple about it – because variation is the norm – not averages.

Did you know there is NO POSITIVE CORRELATION between time spent trying to become self-aware and actually becoming more self-aware? (Eurich, 2017) In short, additional self-reflection doesn’t necessarily make you more self-aware. This surprising finding has since fueled the career and research of Tasha Eurich, and inspired her to teach others how to enhance the quality of their introspection. Tasha Eurich is an organizational psychologist, researcher, and New York Times best-selling author.