Anti-ENIC, Anti-Levy, Intelligence - Combined
Anti-ENIC, Anti-Levy, Intelligence - Combined
Good evening everyone and welcome to any new readers, recently new readers and the good old-timers.
Those guys know you get a wide variety from this blog, not all of it will appeal but that's OK.
Once again it's time to throw the newspaper in the bin, settle down with a cup of tea (can't stand coffee) and take in something different from the normal repetitive noise out there.
Like the Chronicles of Narnia, let's step into another world, the mystical magical THBN world.
Recent dwellers will have seen some comparison charts ahead of transfers which you newbies can find via the links below this article,..
And yes, as mentioned on Twitter, I do praise the anti-Levy anti-ENIC ensemble and show how we can tap into what they have so bare with me and walk slowly along the path laid before you, this isn't an musing to rush.
In today's high brow ramblings, I somehow combine Dr. Antonio Damasio's neurological studies with anti-ENIC, anti-Levy supporters, throw in an Emotional Intelligence book and a marking system that requires a little thought to decide the importance of each squad member.
Sounds highly unlikely but I think I achieved it so let's crack on.
"For human beings the reality that ultimately matters is the reality of their feelings." Jauregui Jose.
Emotions matter, the only reason we do things is to change our emotional feelings.
To strive and succeed to score a goal produces positive energy and emotion that elevates if achieved, while defending under pressure with the wrong mentality produces negative emotions, especially if you concede a goal of course.
If you are defending and see it as your territory, see it as a positive if you keep the opposition out, a positive if the opponent doesn't beat you, that he isn't going to get past you or get a cross in, then you can produce the positive emotion that produces better results.
Defending with anxiety,defending with fear produces mistakes.
Unfortunately we have had a problem this season defending and you yourself have felt the negative "here we go again" emotion.
If that creeps into a player, then doubts creep into other players about the reliability of one player, then that affects their own performance.
A defence who don't trust their goalkeeper and going to be worse that the same defence with a keeper behind them they do trust.
That principle pervades the whole team.
A side is going to be more confident with Harry Kane and Heung-min Son playing than with both missing. Doubts start to creep in, performance goes down from everyone.
Sport is emotion. Humans run on emotion.
Controlling and channelling that emotion produces better results.
Our emotions generate our response to any situation, unless you rewire your emotions you will keep producing the same response.
The nearly team, who keep getting close but not actually winning have an emotional issue they haven't rewired yet.
Spurs have it and basically hope players can rewire their own emotions.
But if you don't know you need to then you won't do it and players don't know.
Create players who are experts at rewiring their emotions and you'll win trophies.
As you know, I strongly advocate that sports psychologists be used as a consistent part of training to achieve that.
Find a players deep lying motivating factor (most people don't know what motivates them) and you tap into his or her emotions.
What is best, a good old screwdriver or a fully charged power tool?
For emotion training football hasn't moved on, it's still using a screwdriver.
Emotion gives a player the power to push for peak performance, performance beyond their current or usual level.
Have a squad doing that and you are going places, everyone had better look out.
You can't buy it, you have to create it within your own environment so newcomers see it, understand it, tap into it and produce peak performance to keep the whole thing turning forward.
It is like trying to push a car.
It is hard to get started but easier when you are moving.
Are Spurs moving forward emotionally, mentally or are we still trying to push the car and it still isn't moving?
It's the latter for me, we are still using the screwdriver approach.
The result is, we create undesirable results.
Reprogram players emotional responses therefore will enable the right decisions to be made and the right time, thus improving performance and obtaining the desired results.
All human motivation is based on our desire to change our emotional state.
Anything we wish to achieve is simply a symbol of our preferred emotional state at that time.
Changing our emotion changes everything.
Let me take two fans.
One anti-Levy, one pro-Levy.
Both have the same required end result, winning a trophy or trophies.
One sees everything through a negative emotional state while the other sees everything through a positive emotional state.
Both create their own realities and neither side accepts the others reality or that they even want success.
Within a football squad success is achieved within a positive emotional environment.
We need to acquire the underlying belief that we can win a trophy.
This season it is about reaching the top 4 or maybe 5 for Champions League football.
Harry Kane shows that belief, but how many others do?
How many others actually believe it is possible and by believe we mean total unshakeable belief, the same belied anti-Levy supporters have about Daniel Levy.
They won't entertain a though that he could produce success so how many players have that blinkered belief that they can achieve success because it is only that unshakeable belief that will achieve top 4 or the winning of a trophy next season.
It is all driven by emotion.
Emotion is the trigger, emotion is the means to achieving a goal, winning a trophy.
We require a new belief collectively and new individual internal belief, a belief with the same passion (emotion) that anti-Levy supporters have about Levy.
I don't share their views but I recognise their belief.
Emotions produce belief, belief produces different (better) results.
Change the belief and you change results.
Therefore we must work on our emotions to change anything and are Spurs doing that?
When you buy a player you need to buy players with the right emotional make up, the right belief, not the player or his agent who just talks the talk.
How do you tell who is just talking the talk and who actually has the total belief you as a manager need?
Who can do that best, amateurs (all be it experienced) or professionals whose job it is?
Which approach will produce more mistakes?
I say again, our buying process is amateurish in this regard.
Emotions are linked to the underlying information we have.
Emotion is the key component in you abusing someone as it in you helping someone.
Many will see a senior citizen and want to help them, but many in our woke generation want them dead just because they think they would then get their way over Brexit.
Who is the one with the emotional (fear) problem?
Recollection, thinking and planning are driven by emotion.
Winning a trophy is stepping into the unknown.
Our players don't have the emotion tools to call upon, they have somehow to develop emotions to drive change but nobody is teaching them how to develop them so naturally some do it better than others.
The poorer at it hold us back.
Daniel Goleman in his book Emotional Intelligence wrote of a case where an individual lost the functioning parts of the brain affecting emotion with the result that they were unable to make decisions.
(No shopping jokes please!)
Dr. Antonio Damasio, a neurologist at Iowa College of Medicine, studied impairments in patients with damage to the prefrontal-amygdala circuit (key structures in our response to anxiety, stress and it's effects on learning and memory).
He found that their decision making was hugely impaired but there was no affect to IQ or cognitive ability.
So emotions clearly affect decision making and speed of decision making.
A decision is made faster if we can access an emotional memory.
Therefore if you can program into memory an emotion not yet experienced, you can speed up decision making and speed up the route to success.
Imagination and visualisation are the tools necessary for generating the reality we want.
Imagine and visualise to the point where you feel the real emotions, strengthens your belief in achieving that goal.
Build that to such a point that achieving the goal is an unshakeable mental certainty and you'll produce even greater peak performances.
There is our anti-Levy fan again, an unshakeable mental certainty. That trait is part of the formula for success discovered by Napoleon Hill.
You can see why I stress the use of sports psychologists in programming our players minds. (emotions) it is so critical in shortening our road to sustained success.
Reality will catch up with and be consistent with your emotional state.
Feel the emotions of already having achieved and you'll achieve.
That's the fully charged power drill approach so why are we using a screwdriver?
If we can build the best stadium in the world what is to stop us producing the best sports science department in the world to produce the best team in the world?
With that added string to our bow, which is peanuts to fund in comparison to a player, we would then have something special, something different to attract all the best young players in the world to the club, instead of having to try and convince them to come.
Put the shoe on the other foot, have them come to us asking.
Dreaming reprograms our brain, visualisation and imagination reprogram our brain.
Athletes use it, golfers use it, why then don't footballers use it?
OK folks,time for you to analyse the Spurs squad.
The Building Blocks of a Strong Culture
Goals are smart work, dedication, ritual, the building blocks that develop a winning organisational culture.
The same principles apply to any sports individual or team.
The 10 Building Blocks of a Strong Culture are as follows:
- COMMITMENT (to a higher cause, purpose, other)
- RESPONSIBILITY (accept your role)
- ACCOUNTABILITY (give and take critique)
- INTEGRITY (gap between say and do)
- RESPECT (game, opponent, self, coach, team)
- TRUST (self, others, coach)
- LEADERSHIP (everyone's work)
- COURAGE/COMPASSION - twins (give)
- SERVICE (sacrifice/suffering)
- HUMILITY (others get credit, gratitude and thankfulness)
Now put that in a football context, look at each one again and then look at each player in the squad.
COMMITMENT - does the player have a sense of pride in Spurs, of what we are trying to achieve?
RESPONSIBILITY - does the player accept their role in the squad and give their best all the times,on the training field and when called upon on the field?
ACCOUNTABILITY - do they take responsibility for their actions and their environment or do they blame others?
INTEGRITY - how do they treat adversity? Do they conduct themselves in the same manner that they speak?
RESPECT - the whole club is a team, does the player respect everyone else or are they dragging others down to their "complaining" level?
TRUST - do they have a positive trusting relationship with the manager and coaching staff?
LEADERSHIP - does the player reflect the right culture or are they a negative influence?
COURAGE/COMPASSION - do players face problems or hide. Anxiety sufferers beat themselves up, has Rose been guilty of this? Was Lamela like that when he joined, was Ndombele the same?
SERVICE - do they give everything they can? Think of the way Kane works to come back from injury quickly or Lamela telling Mourinho he'll play whatever he needs while recovering.
HUMILITY - are they humble or arrogant? Is it all about them or the team?
Grab yourself a piece of paper, create two columns, one for the committed players, one for the questionable commitment to doing their very best for Spurs.
Now do the same thing for responsibility, accountability and so on until you have finished.
Think about media statements made, think about Erik Lamela.
When he first arrived, he wanted to go back to Italy, he was hiding on the pitch, his mental state was all wrong, therefore the commitment wasn't there, he wasn't taking responsibility and so on.
Now though, he works hard on the field, he sends the right messages to the boss that he'll give him as much as he can while recovering from injury.
Compare that to Harry Kane who has worked his socks off to become a great striker,shows the right attitude and does everything he can to get fit as soon as possible.
Then there is Danny Rose and his comments, his lack of commitment, accountability, responsibility etc affecting his game.
Let me ask you, how do the other players feel mentally knowing one or more members of the team and not going to produce a peak performance?
That has to have a negative effect on their own performance.
Negative emotion drinks positive emotion, it sucks a little out of each player.
Instead of performing at level 10 they might drop to level 9.
1pt performance drop per player x 10 players = 10
10 being the peak performance of 1 player, you are performing as a team 1 man down.
When you come across negativity you have to reprogram positivity.
You do this yourselves when you encounter a different opinion to yours. You dismiss it and remind yourself yours is the right opinion in your reality.
Meeting negativity, such as the Ajax position, produces the opportunity for dramatic improvement of your world (reality).
It happened and the players experienced an emotion they will never have felt before.
A sports psychologist would tap into that emotion and use it.
Right now it is being diluted and wasted whereas players should be going into that emotional state to motivate before games.
Are you telling me we wouldn't perform better if the players went out with those motivational emotions coursing through their bodies?
Where would you rate all the players on the 1-10 scale for each of the 10 elements?
If a players attitude improves, as Tanguy Ndombele's might have done then you can adjust your score as we head through the remainder of the season, transfer window and into next season.
It will train you to look beyond the football field and see who is committed to achieving success at Spurs, who could be with a little help and those who aren't and therefore are not going to produce their best when selected.
Plenty for you to think about.
Have a nice evening.
COYS
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