How to Go All-In Without Getting Bored
Summary
TLDRThis video explores the concept of 'deliberate play', a practice method used by elite athletes like Stephen Curry to transform rigorous training into an enjoyable experience. It emphasizes the importance of maintaining a childlike enthusiasm and incorporating elements of fun into deliberate practice sessions to avoid burnout and boredom. The video offers five actionable principles for athletes to apply this approach to their own training, enhancing their performance and passion for their sport.
Takeaways
- 🏀 The script discusses the importance of finding enjoyment in the practice routine to avoid burnout and boredom, using the example of basketball player Steph Curry.
- 🎯 The concept of 'deliberate practice' is highlighted, which involves purposeful and systematic training with clear goals, feedback, and pushing beyond comfort zones.
- 🚀 Steph Curry's success is attributed to a practice method that combines hard work with enjoyment, transforming the grind into a more engaging experience.
- 🤔 The idea of 'Borout' is introduced, a combination of boredom and burnout resulting from repetitive training, which many athletes face.
- 🧩 The coach Brandon Payne's philosophy emphasizes the importance of 'deliberate play' in workouts to maintain fun and focus during practice.
- 🎲 Deliberate play involves incorporating game-like elements into drills, setting scores or times to beat, and ensuring variety to keep the practice challenging and enjoyable.
- 🔄 The importance of mixing up drills in an unexpected way is underscored to keep the practice fresh and to prepare for the unpredictability of real games.
- 🎯 Five principles of deliberate play are suggested for athletes: setting challenges, prioritizing variety, adding spontaneity, role-playing scenarios, and asking reflective questions.
- 📚 The script is inspired by Adam Grant's book 'Hidden Potential', which explores concepts that can help individuals reach their full potential.
- 🔋 The video also touches on the importance of maintaining energy levels for consistent and effective practice sessions.
Q & A
What is the main issue athletes face with the traditional practice routine?
-Athletes often face burnout and boredom due to the monotonous cycle of repetitive drills and the constant push to improve, which can lead to a lack of enjoyment and motivation in their training.
How does Steph Curry's approach to practice differ from the traditional grind?
-Steph Curry's practice method, influenced by coach Brandon Payne, incorporates deliberate play, which makes the training focused yet enjoyable and fun, transforming the grind into an effective and engaging process.
What is 'deliberate practice' and how is it traditionally viewed in the context of athletic success?
-Deliberate practice is a purposeful and systematic type of practice with clear goals, regular feedback, and pushing oneself outside of comfort zones. It is traditionally viewed as the root to mastery, sustained progress, and peak performance in sports.
What is 'Borout' and how does it affect athletes?
-Borout is a term for the combination of boredom and burnout that high potential athletes can experience from endlessly practicing the same drills, leading to a decline in motivation and enjoyment.
How did Brandon Payne's coaching philosophy help Steph Curry become a top performer?
-Brandon Payne introduced deliberate play into Curry's training, ensuring every practice session had an element of fun and challenge, which helped Curry maintain high energy and enthusiasm, leading to his rise as a top shooter.
What is 'deliberate play' and how does it benefit athletes?
-Deliberate play is a practice method that combines focused training on developing specific skills with elements of play to make it enjoyable. It helps athletes stay motivated, accelerates development, and prevents burnout.
What are some principles of deliberate play that can be applied to athletic practice?
-Principles include having something to beat (like a score or time), prioritizing variety in drills, adding spontaneity, role-playing scenarios, and asking questions to increase engagement and enjoyment in practice.
How can athletes introduce novelty into their training routine to prevent boredom?
-Athletes can introduce novelty by trying out new drills, changing the order of exercises, using randomization tools like dice or coins to decide which drills to do, and changing training environments.
What role does visualization play in the deliberate play method?
-Visualization in deliberate play helps athletes mentally prepare for high-pressure situations by imagining themselves in critical game moments, which can enhance focus and execution of skills.
Why is it important for athletes to regularly ask themselves questions about their practice routine?
-Asking questions helps athletes reflect on their practice, identify areas for improvement, and find ways to increase engagement and enjoyment, which is crucial for sustaining high performance and preventing burnout.
How does the concept of 'deliberate play' relate to the idea of maintaining childlike enthusiasm in sports?
-Deliberate play encourages athletes to tap into the childlike enthusiasm they had for their sport, where they would play with full energy and joy, which can lead to more effective and enjoyable training sessions.
Outlines
🏀 The Secret to Enjoyable Elite Athlete Training
This paragraph discusses the common challenges athletes face, such as burnout and boredom, due to the monotony of practice. It introduces the concept of 'deliberate play' used by elite athletes, exemplified by NBA star Steph Curry's training regimen with coach Brandon Payne. The summary explains how Payne's philosophy of avoiding 'boring workouts' and incorporating fun into deliberate practice helped Curry become a top performer. The paragraph emphasizes the importance of maintaining childlike enthusiasm in training to prevent burnout and stay motivated.
🎯 Implementing Deliberate Play in Athletic Training
The second paragraph delves into the practical application of 'deliberate play' by offering five general principles that athletes can adopt. These include setting challenges with scores or time limits, prioritizing variety to prevent boredom, adding spontaneity to training routines, role-playing scenarios to enhance focus and visualization, and asking reflective questions to refine practice. The summary highlights the importance of maintaining novelty and unpredictability in training to keep athletes engaged and to simulate real-game conditions, as well as the psychological benefits of visualization and self-reflection.
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Keywords
💡Daily Grind
💡Burnout
💡Deliberate Practice
💡10,000 Hour Rule
💡Steph Curry
💡Deliberate Play
💡Borout
💡Brandon Payne
💡Unpredictability
💡Peak Performance
💡Role Play
💡Reflection
Highlights
The daily grind of practice for athletes can lead to burnout and boredom, but there's a secret hack used by elite athletes to make it enjoyable.
Steph Curry, known as the greatest three-point shooter in basketball, didn't rise to the top through monotonous practice but through a unique method.
The concept of deliberate practice is crucial for athletes, involving purposeful and systematic training with clear goals and feedback.
Deliberate play, a practice method involving fun and focused work, is introduced as a way to avoid burnout and maintain motivation.
Brandon Payne, Curry's coach, emphasized the importance of making workouts enjoyable to counteract the 'bor out' experienced by high potential athletes.
Payne's philosophy includes incorporating game-like elements into drills to maintain the excitement and challenge of practice.
Curry's training involved creative drills like '21', which combined scoring with physical exertion to simulate real-game conditions.
Mixing up drills unexpectedly helps athletes stay engaged and prepares them for the unpredictability of actual games.
Deliberate play is about maximizing performance through energy and enthusiasm, not just going through the motions.
The video offers five principles of deliberate play that can be implemented by any athlete to enhance their practice sessions.
Setting challenges with scores or time limits can increase effort and turn practice into a game.
Prioritizing variety in drills and methods can prevent boredom and keep athletes engaged.
Adding spontaneity to training, such as randomizing drills, can keep athletes alert and responsive.
Role-playing scenarios in drills can enhance focus and prepare athletes for high-pressure situations.
Asking reflective questions can help athletes identify what makes practice more enjoyable and how to implement changes.
The video is inspired by Adam Grant's book 'Hidden Potential', which explores ideas for fulfilling one's potential.
Sustaining energy levels is crucial for peak performance, and the video suggests watching a follow-up video on this topic.
Transcripts
for many athletes The Daily Grind of
practice can feel like an endless
monotonous cycle the pressure to perform
the repetitive drills and the constant
push to improve can lead to burnout and
boredom but what if there was a secret
Hack That Elite athletes use to make
going Allin not just effective but
surprisingly enjoyable well meet Steph
Curry you probably already know him as
the greatest three-point shooter in
basketball history was his rise to the
top just about grinding out thousands of
shots week after week like a robot no
Curry's Journey towards absolute Mastery
was not about the pain and suffering
that those those who Champion hustle
culture think is required to become
world class behind Curry's incredible
success lies a practice method that
transforms the grind into something that
for sure is hard work but it doesn't end
up feeling like it and so in this video
I'm going to share what this practice
method is and also how every single
athlete no matter their sport can apply
to their own game so if you're currently
experiencing a practice Plateau then
this is the video for you so let's get
started now chances are if you're
watching this video you're probably
someone who is already quite clued up on
what it takes to practice and train well
as an athlete you've most likely heard
that those who reach the top often
engage in what's known as deliberate
practice this is the concept that
birthed the 10,000 hour rule and refers
to a special type of practice that is
purposeful and systematic it's not about
doing mindless reps it's about doing
things with clear goals and intentions
getting regular feedback and pushing
yourself outside of your comfort zone
and for a long time psychologists
believed that deliberate practice was
the root to not only Mastery of a skill
but sustain progress development and
Peak Performance and I also believe this
until until I learned about Steph
Curry's rise to the top you see Steph
Curry was nothing special as a kid
despite his dad playing in the NBA Steph
didn't look like he would live up to his
dad's name he was a three- star recruit
coming out of high school and many felt
that he just wouldn't be able to cut it
at the highest level due to his two star
body and despite hustling his way to
become the seventh overall pick in the
NBA draft his team the Golden State
Warriors was still not 100% convinced
that this kid coming out of Davidson
College would become the world-class
guard that they needed that was until
Curry met Brandon pay an next player
turned one-on-one coach who also
struggled to make an impact as a player
due to his shortcomings in athleticism
and in Curry's First full season in
working with pay he became the lead top
three-point shooter in terms of
three-point shots made so what changed
for curry what did Brandon Payne
actually do with him well they just had
fun together Payne's philosophy as a
coach starts with one simple principle
there is no boring in our workouts you
see when it comes to deliberate practice
it's being increasingly shown in
research that many high potential
athletes often end up experiencing
what's termed Bor out a mix of boredom
and burnout that comes from endless
grinding away at the same skills drills
and workouts for weeks and months on end
so with curry what Brandon Payne did was
ensure that at the heart of every
practice session was what psychologists
call deliberate play the idea of this is
that you still make practice incredibly
focused and therefore deliberate on
developing certain skills but you also
add in elements of play to still make it
enjoyable and fun now it sounds simple
and Incredibly basic but typically as
you rise the ranks in sport things get
more serious and that childlike
enthusiasm Slips Away which often leads
to many Pros falling out of love with
the game or just not looking forward to
practicing on a daily basis so pay would
always ensure that the drills he gave
Curry always had an element of fun but
not in a gimmick Type of Way Curry would
have to play 21 where he was given one
minute to score 21 points through a
mixture of shots but he'd have to Sprint
to half court and back in between those
shots and the point of a drill like this
is to make it a game but it also mirrors
real life games or matches because doing
something like this mimics the fatigue
of a real life game where you need to
jack up a game time three with only a
few seconds left on the clock and you're
having to run up the court full Sprint
to make that shot in every single
session Curry had with pain there would
be a game to play within each drill
there was always a time to be or a score
to be and another key thing that pay
would do is regularly mix up the drills
in an unexpected way this would ensure
there was no predictability for curry
which again one makes it more motivating
and fun but two also condition Curry to
grow comfortable with the
unpredictability that occurs in a real
life NBA game so deliberate play is not
about messing around and joking around
it's about getting the most out of
yourself and accelerating your
development through bringing a greater
energy and enthusiasm to practice every
single day if practice feels like too
much of a grind then you just drag your
feet you only focus on ticking off reps
instead of doing them with full energy
and intention or you just end up cutting
corners but if it feels playful you
embody that spirit that you had as a
child where you would just play your
sport all day and all night until your
parents had to literally drag you off
the court or pitch so the question now
is how can you introduce a sense of
deliberate play into your practice well
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but for now here are five simple general
principles of deliberate play that any
athlete can Implement one always have
something to beat so this goes back to
pay's idea that there always needs to be
a score or time to beat when you have a
proximal goal in other words something
very close to aim for you naturally
increase your effort to reach it so set
yourself challenges such as going
through dribbling sequences five times
in a row without hitting a single cone
or like Curry trying to score a certain
amount of points in a very small time
window doing this ensures your practice
is a challenge instead of a chore two
prioritize variety naturally we can all
get bored quite quickly of things even
if we love it your favorite food might
be pizza but you'd get sick of it if you
had to eat it for breakfast lunch and
dinner every single day for a week
straight and the same goes for our
Sports practice and training so try out
new drills and methods every single week
keep looking for something slightly
different so that you satisfy the human
desire for novelty and even if you have
to do certain drills consistently do
what Curry would do in terms of mixing
the order up in which you do them three
add spontaneity to follow from the
variety point you can also make it fun
through randomly deciding which drills
to do through using things like rolling
a dice or flipping a coin this again
keeps you on your toes super engaged and
also conditions you to be able to
instantly react to things it may be that
you roll a six and this turns out to be
the drill that you least wanted to come
up you then get stuck in and you've not
only improve that skill but also your
ability to tackle tough situations at a
moment's notice other things you can do
is is randomly decide where to train you
might have a couple of different fields
or courts that you could go to so again
flip a coin to decide on the day
sometimes a changing environment can
break any hint of boredom that might be
settling in then four is to role play
for certain drills you can imagine
certain moments so convince yourself
that you're losing and there's only a
few seconds on the clock and that you
need to make a shot in order to win or
tie the game as a kid it's very likely
that you played your sport thinking it
was the World Cup final or NBA finals
and you'd imagine yourself taking that
game-winning shot in front of thousands
of people and it's still a great idea to
tap into that now that you're older so
you can get the same buzz from
successfully nailing certain movements
skills or drills this is also a great
way to practice visualization where
you're mentally preparing yourself to
not only be able to execute a skill but
really be able to execute it when the
pressure is actually on and of course
this never fully matches the real thing
but the mind is super powerful in
convincing yourself that the stakes are
far higher than they actually are so
lean into that come up with all kinds of
scenarios about how important it is to
nail the movements related to the drill
that you're working you'll often find
you complete them with a greater sense
of urgency and focus then lastly ask
questions it's very easy to fall into a
practice route of that bore out and then
just accept it thinking that that's just
the reality of training and working hard
as an athlete but the very elite like
Curry constantly ask themselves
questions in order to change their
situation or how to increase their
engagement with all that they're working
on so regularly ask yourself simple
questions like if this was to be twice
as fun what would this look like or what
would make this feel more enjoyable and
and your answer to those questions will
vary but they will give you Clarity on
what actions you should then take it may
be that to make something feel more
enjoyable you need to actually drop a
drill for a couple of weeks because
you've just gotten super sick of it and
you just need to spend a bit of time
away from it to rest up and re-energize
yourself or it may be that you need to
spend more time training with friends or
teammates if you're doing a lot of solo
practice and that you're actually just
missing out on the social and
competitive side of practice but you can
only work this out through constant
reflection and refinement and the only
way to get that is through asking
yourself questions on a regular basis so
that's deliberate play this video has
been heavily inspired by an awesome
chapter in Adam Grant's book hidden
potential so Props to him for allow me
to learn about this and share my take
and summary with you guys honestly check
this book out if you're someone who
wants to fulfill your potential it's one
of the best that I've read in a while
and another thing that fuels practicing
to the best of our abilities is
sustaining our energy levels so to keep
yours fully topped up day after day you
should watch this video next
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