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I’ve told the story of Nate and me to young coaches. It’s funny. It’s entertaining. Everybody gets a kick out of it. Two guys in a basement, pizza boxes strewn all over, imagining game scenarios while scribbling all over whiteboards. It’s the hoops version of that movie A Beautiful Mind. But instead of brilliant mathematical equations, we’re drawing up sideline out-of-bounds plays. But here’s the thing. When I talk about how we made a spreadsheet of all the stuff we put on the dry-erase boards, I get asked by young coaches: Can we have that? They want the work product without doing the work. And I say, no, you’re missing the whole damn point. You have to do it yourself.
Rapture
Nick Nurse and Phil Jackson
The truth is, even at the most basic level, it’s always a hardware and software story. The hardware is useless without the software, just as the reverse is true. Sport skill acquisition does not happen without both specific genes and a specific environment, and often the genes and the environment must coincide at a specific time.
The Sports Gene
David Epstein
This tendency was not merely of academic interest. Danny and Amos agreed that there was a real-world equivalent of a “sure thing”: the status quo. The status quo was what people assumed they would get if they failed to take action. “Many instances of prolonged hesitation, and of continued reluctance to take positive action, should probably be explained in this fashion,” wrote Danny to Amos. They played around with the idea that the anticipation of regret might play an even greater role in human affairs than it did if people could somehow know what would have happened if they had chosen differently. “The absence of definite information concerning the outcomes of actions one has not taken is probably the single most important factor that keeps regret in life within tolerable bounds,” Danny wrote. “We can never be absolutely sure that we would have been happier had we chosen another profession or another spouse. . . . Thus, we are often protected from painful knowledge concerning the quality of our decisions.”
The Undoing Project
Michael Lewis
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