Monday, October 11, 2010

Get it wrong when you're getting it right.

"Good Judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. "

I have found in my last few years of coaching, competing and learning that more often than not i'm getting it wrong when i think i'm really getting it right. I believe everyone feels this way, so at what point are we just content with what we are doing? I think its up to the point when improvement stalls out. In coaching i know i'll be teaching exercises a certain way and then i'll notice improvements are slowing or not happening at all. so i'll go back, do some research and learn that i'm getting it wrong! maybe i'm teaching it the wrong way or cuing incorrectly but it seems like i'm not using the most efficient method. Another example, nutrition. Eat good food and you're good right? no... eat fresh fruits and veggies, meat and fats and you're good right? no... eat only meat, veggies and fats, little fruit..ok got it. this too will change.

You're only getting it wrong when you seek knowledge to improve. if we were comstantly getting it right we'd be stagnate. We wouldn't improve and we'd never get better. yeah being told you are wrong sucks, may even set you back a few emotional clicks but it gets better and makes what you are doing better. i'm ok with being wrong because i'll learn how to get it right and improve upon that. Don't get too tied up with something you are doing wrong, focus on what you are doing right and improve upon your weaknesses. i try to take this approach everyday and i've improved faster than ever before. i'm learning and growing and its great. Today i'm right, tomorrow i'll be wrong, and life goes on, i just have to adapt.


"Unless you test yourself, you stagnate. Unless you try to go way beyond what you've been able to do before, you won't develop and grow. When you go for it 100%, when you don't have the fear of "what if I fail," that's when you learn, that's when you're really living" - mark allen

2 comments:

  1. Great post, it applies on so many levels. TWC as a business comes to mind with me, I have made mistakes and recognizing you are wrong does suck...but it definitely helps so you can continue to grow.

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