Basketball - Stoic Advice, Learning Across Domains

Coach Wooden preached, "Little things make big things happen." Create sustainable competitive advantage with a "performance-focused, feedback-rich" approach.

We make our habits and our habits make us. For example:

• Did I speak greatness?
• Did I show empathy to my team? 
• Was I fully prepared for practice - mentally and physically? 
• Did I bring energy?
• Did my coaching present "the best version of myself?"

Reflecting on our performance closes the "feedback loop" of performance.

None of these ideas are new or radical. In "The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations," Ryan Holiday shares from the Roman statesman and author’s Seneca. 

"What bad habit did I curb today? How am I better? Were my actions just? How can I improve? At the beginning or end of each day, the Stoic sits down with his journal and reviews: what he did, what he thought, what could be improved. It’s for this reason that Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations is a somewhat inscrutable book—it was for personal clarity and not public benefit. Writing down Stoic exercises was and is also a form of practicing them."

Every coach preaches daily improvement, the "1 Percent Better" approach because we understand the exponential growth equation. 

Here’s the expanded 365-day compounding graph with both curves.

What the math says

• 1% better each day:

  $$1.01^{365} \approx 37.8$$

  → Nearly 38× improvement over a year.

• 1% worse each day:

  $$0.99^{365} \approx 0.03$$

  → You’re left with about 3% of where you started.

Leverage the power of compounding to improve whatever our domain - coaching, writing, teaching, sharing. 

Lagniappe. Growing culture demands intent. 

Elite cultures don't happen on accident.

Daniel Coyle (@DanielCoyle) studied some of the best cultures - Pixar, the San Antonio Spurs, and Navy SEALs to figure out what actually works.

In The Culture Code, he found 3 key skills that made their cultures elite👇 pic.twitter.com/0UHhOp3IZv

— Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness (@coachajkings) December 17, 2025

Lagniappe 2. Clever BOB with Zoom action and backscreen.