Philadelphia Eagles coach, Nick Sirianni: “Effort is free. You can control your effort”
No it’s not and no you can’t!
Effort is metabolically costly. You can say ‘effort is free’ every single day and players will still slack off; drop in intensity; give into distractions; be avoidant…to name a few behaviours.
Effort is far from free. With every ounce of effort, sugars and glucose that power the brain deplete. Neural fatigue sets in throughout the course of the day. Anxiety is rife in competitive environments meaning effort can be quicker to atrophy.
Effort is far from free…
It’s also not completely under your control, not only for the very reasons above. Psychology offers us the law of least work: given a choice between similarly rewarding options, organisms learn to avoid those that require more work or effort.
A better message?
“To high perform and win, we have to put in enormous effort. And this is very, very hard. We’re going to support you to put in effort by giving you the environment, the education, and the skills to ensure that you can optimise your effort daily. By giving you this support we will be demanding. We will stretch you more than any other group of players in the NFL. This won’t be a comfortable process…but we will help you put more effort in that you thought possible…”
What can be done?
-education and support plans on nutrition; training; sleep; effective rest and recuperate; and lifestyle tools for daily planning
-daily training structures that optimise periods during the day where effort can be optimised
-engagement tools that help players engage during meetings and training…that help them exert effort appropriately and optimally
-learning skills that help players apportion effort during training…that help them self-regulate their learning and practice deliberately
-competitive mental skills that optimise player ability to compete while reducing the stress of competition
By sending the message that effort is hard, but then providing the environment and skills to train and compete with enormous effort you are helping players develop ‘learned industriousness’ where effort can be experienced as valuable or rewarding in its own right.
Effort is neither free nor controllable. But through environmental intervention and upskilling, coaches can help players take control of their effort and experience effort as rewarding.
Baby Keem reveals who he’s been supporting in the World Cup ⚽️
"I'm only supporting Arsenal players, if you're an Arsenal player and you play for France or whoever, I'm supporting you. I’mma Arsenal fan, we good we just ate after 20 years.”
The fact that Arteta and his staff were claiming handball straight away and not for a foul shows they didn’t think it was a foul on Raya. That says it all. Nowhere near clear and obvious.
I can’t lie football culture is way better than this crap. Imagine 2 old dudes who never touched a ball professionally talking about Messi like this. Insanity!
“LeBron James, to me, has proven over many, many years to be the most mentally fragile superstar I have ever closely observed. I mean, the poor man, as gifted as he is, was born without a clutch gene.
So he’s lucky to be in the top 10 because he’s a liability and always has been at the late-game free-throw line. You can just look it up. By superstar standards, he is a poor free-throw shooter for his career at 74%, and an even poorer three-point shooter at 35% for his career.
And you wanna talk about launching LeBricks? He’s launched a lot of LeBricks in his day.”
- Skip Bayless
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