HEATHER D REYNOLDS
  • Blog
  • Offerings
  • About
  • Contact

New Podcast - Discipline

2/26/2021

 
Podcast - Discipline
Picture

Growthability

2/17/2021

 
Picture
Leaning into curiosity.
13-25 years, learning begins to reduce because social norms set in. Our risk/benefit judgement has not yet developed. 
Willingness to learn
Willingness to change
Capacity to learn
Capacity to apply new knowledge
What challenge/sacrifice are you willing to tolerate to change?

I remember a conversation I had with this wonderfully strong and competent climber I have the pleasure of knowing. She and her husband would allow my partner and I to stay in their home while we offered our training program at the gym they trained and worked in. This climber also happened to have past experience as a ballerina, having performed and taught at a high level before settling into family and teaching. In one of our many conversations about what makes someone a great rock climber, she explained how in ballet, the top schools could tell from a candidates anatomy whether they would make it in the world of ballet. 
At the time, I was completing my masters in kinesiology. My research was focused on determining the physical characteristics of elite sport climbers. I had collected data on grip strength, back and shoulder strength, flexibility, core strength and body fat. 
Overall flexibility was the most frequently recommended attribute by the expert panel. The demands of ballet technique require dancers to have a greater than normal range of movement at the hip 6, 14, 26 , spine 29 , and foot and ankle 34 .

6. Champion L M, Chatfield S J. Measurement of turnout in dance research. J Dance Med Sci. 2008;12:121–135. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
14. 
Hamilton W G, Hamilton L A, Marshall P, Molnar M. A profile of the musculoskeletal characteristics of elite professional ballet dancers. Am J Sports Med. 1992;20:267–273. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
In the many years since that early research - before bouldering became a sport in it's own right - I have changed my idea about what makes one great. 
In my view, teachability and GRIT will make or break one's career as an athlete. 
Or, defined another way, one's curiosity and willingness to learn and apply, combined with the willingness to be uncomfortable, willingness to fail and willingness to persist.
Angela Duckworth states, "grit is passion and sustained persistence applied toward long-term achievement, with no particular concern for rewards or recognition along the way.
Grit requires courage, 
conscientiousness,  resilience, persistence and passion. 
Picture
PASSION
During this pandemic, it has been a little challenging to have long term goals since our path toward those goals are quite likely disrupted by restrictions and potential closures. But perhaps take a look again at what you have a passion for? Passion comes from having a sense of purpose. 

CONSCIENTIOUSNESS
To be conscientious means to pay attention to the details. It is not enough to practice something, but to apply deliberate practice, defined in the Harvard Business Review as 'practice that focuses on tasks beyond your current level of competence and comfort .' This requires self awareness, a good coach or teacher, patience and of course, getting uncomfortable again and again and again.

COURAGE
As we all know, courage is not the absence of fear, rather it is the willingness to face whatever we are afraid of. Being willing to be uncomfortable, to challenge and to apply great strength. 

PERSISTANCE
The stamina to apply the action, skill again and again and again, regardless of the outcome.

RESILIENCE
In this context, resilience may be both physical and psychological. One's ability to recover from an injury and return to pre-injury performance is a demonstration of physical resilience. However, one's ability to meet with disappointment over and over again and to yet continue to try, is psychological resilience. 
Consider the following and journal your answers.
  1.  What are you passionate about achieving?
  2.  What is your current capacity or obstacle to achievement of the goal?
  3.  What is the required capacity? Or has to be removed, implemented?
  4.  What are you willing to sacrifice in pursuit of the goal, the dream?

I found this very interesting assessment on the Everyday Espionage Podcast with Andrew Bustamante. Consider, and score the following, where 0 is not at all and 10 is laying everything on the line.
  1.  How willing are you to make the sacrifice you recognize is necessary?
  2.          0          1         2         3         4         5         6         7         8         9         10
  3.  How willing are you to change?
  4.          0         1         2         3         4         5         6         7         8         9         10

Now take your numbers from 1-10 and multiple them together; for example, if you score yourself 6, and 4, your score is equals 6 x 4= 24/100 - this indicates you are not very teachable. A score above 50 would indicate teachability. 

I think your level of curiosity is also a factor - so consider the following... 
  1.  How CURIOUS are you about whether you can get there?
  2.          0         1         2         3         4         5         6         7         8         9         10

In my books, if you have a teachability score above 50 and a curiosity score above 5 - you will continue to grow and be more and more successful in having a purposeful life, assuming you are doing what you are passionate about.

Podcast-Create New Habits

2/16/2021

 
Picture
https://heatherspodcast.buzzsprout.com

    Heatherdr
    also on medium

    Writing, journalling, podcasting... it's all about sharing the journey.

    Archives

    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    June 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    June 2019

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

2021 Heather D Reynolds
Listen on Soundcloud
Proudly powered by Weebly
Photo used under Creative Commons from Kurt Stocker
  • Blog
  • Offerings
  • About
  • Contact