Book Review: The Compound Effect from Jose Paul Martin
What does this have to do with basketball? How do you grow your team or your game? You need a plan, a process, and relentless commitment to improving it.
Here are a few quotes from Hardy's book:
The truth is, complacency has impacted all great empires including, but not limited to, the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Spanish, Portuguese, France, and English. Why? Because nothing fails like success. Once-dominant empires have failed for this very reason. People get to a certain level of success and get too comfortable.
To help you become aware of your choices, I want you to track every action that relates to the area of your life you want to improve.
One thing Jim Rohn taught me is: “If you want to have more, you have to become more. Success is not something you pursue. What you pursue will elude you; it can be like trying to chase butterflies. Success is something you attract by the person you become."
Applications:
What does this have to do with basketball? How do you grow your team or your game? You need a plan, a process, and relentless commitment to improving it.
Here are a few quotes from Hardy's book:
The truth is, complacency has impacted all great empires including, but not limited to, the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Spanish, Portuguese, France, and English. Why? Because nothing fails like success. Once-dominant empires have failed for this very reason. People get to a certain level of success and get too comfortable.
To help you become aware of your choices, I want you to track every action that relates to the area of your life you want to improve.
One thing Jim Rohn taught me is: “If you want to have more, you have to become more. Success is not something you pursue. What you pursue will elude you; it can be like trying to chase butterflies. Success is something you attract by the person you become."
Applications:
- Want to lose weight? You need to change your net difference between calories consumed and burned. Trackers (apps) like MyFitnessPal (or online Myfitnesspal.com) allow you to set goals and track them.
- Need to improve your free throws? Shooting a hundred and tracking them might help, but when do you shoot a hundred in a game. Take three, sprint to half-court and back; take three more...repeat and track your performance.
- Want better practices? Do you have a practice plan?
Here's a sample practice plan from a summer workout. Some of this won't make any sense to you "e.g." the Indiana drill, but that's not important. I can review need areas and progress, and track how effective our team is growing offensively and defensively. In season, I add more defense.
The overarching point is, if you want growth (within a growth mindset), then you have to have a repeatable process, measure results, reassess, and refine. Studying other players' process (e.g. Kevin Durant or Kobe Bryant) and coaches (including other sports like Nick Saban in football and Jack Clark in rugby) can also help.