This is on target Bob, we are here to learn your way of thought and influence the course of history. It only makes sense that we play off each others strengths and weakness.
I’m amazed at the literary prowess of Dave, he speaks with an erudite tongue that can articulate what I’ve experienced and pondered but can never find the words to communicate the thought. I’ll admit expanding on Bob’s concepts is simple, but it is one of the hardest things I have tried to tackle.
We came here as individuals, but it’s time we started acting like a seminar working towards a common goal; dropping whatever personal issues we brought along.
#1 by Dave on 12/30/2007 - 12:46 pm
For a coach the discernment of player’s potential is only half the battle. The other half is encouraging players to be articulate about what they do in training, why they do it, and their role in the game.
How can you develop competitive excellence if what you are working on, spending time on, and thinking isn’t on target?
I can talk to any group of law judges, for example, put them in a room, and give each of them 3 minutes to articulate their jobs and I guarantee that you would be shocked beyond comprehension at their inability to deliver a genuinely cogent and coherent result.
I could do the same thing for any group of government employees, excepting janitors, guards, and typists, and I guarantee you, only a few of them would be able to articulate anything cogent about why and how they spend a major piece of their lives.
Let’s not talk about priests, pastors, psychologists, academics, and most researchers. The result of such a test would be mental ward stuff.
Furthermore, I shudder at the thought of this test being given to average GI in Iraq, including all officers to the highest levels. You would get seemingly cogent responses, but real coherency would not be there.
In contrast, I know that if this test were administered to the employees and company officers of corporations such as Wal-Mart or Les Schwab, for example, they would pass it with flying colors. Similarly, this test would be passed quite nicely for the players and coaches of any professional sports team.
These organizations have a focus that is missing in most of society, including the military and intelligence agencies.
BW said, “I need to develop a group of clear thinkers before I die”. That is the most fundamental thing that needs to be said about coaching depth.
Superior organizations force their players to be articulate. It is a requirement for participation. Real justification for what they are doing and why they are doing it is required. Accordingly, being articulate is mandatory.
Run of the mill organizations never force their people to be articulate about their jobs. They never understand that superior organizations are built on very simple enablers. I always know that I am in a poorly managed organization when “the players” are not forced to explain on a regular basis what they are doing, why they doing it, and how it supports the mission with the liars being punished. Also, superior organizations are always focused on simplifying things.
Now granted, this is for an organization where people are paid to participate. But nonetheless, we ourselves need to understand how important this is.
Aldous Huxley never tired of saying: “Don’t tell me what I am to accomplish without telling me how I am to do it.”
And BW has already given guidance to this: “The right thing said at the right time has been more influential to course of events than all the military battles fought in history”.
I know that I have already been widely influential with those in my daily life. I am the one giving the racial explanation for things. What I say makes sense and is true. Accordingly, it is received and remembered.
It is that simple. That is how “Mantra thinking” is spread.
#2 by shari on 01/01/2008 - 11:51 am
I’m thinking that, given the level of anti-white insanity, that MANTRA THINKING is not going to spread, it’s going to EXPLODE this year. That’s my new year prediction.