is it necessary to explain the why of what you’re doing as a leader if you’re not ever asked why my varsity athletes never questioned anything as I assume they’re you think that I’ll it’ll be disrespectful or because they simply think they need to follow my directions yeah they should absolutely know why and people on your team do not need to ask you why for you to tell them you should tell them why they’re doing what they’re doing that way they can lead that way they have a deeper understanding of what they’re doing that way they know how to act and what to do when you’re not there which you won’t always be there and when you do that they actually learn they are actually learning how to lead themselves because they start to understand the importance of knowing why so you know this this this this happens to me I mean there’s a lot of people that have worked for me over the years that I didn’t need to tell them why to do anything well they were ready to rock and roll like they did not care I mean you think JP ever looked at me and said hey hey sir can you explain to me why you want me to do that no he’s like JP machine-gun nest attack he’s attacking like by the by the time I get out of my mouth he’s going so there was no Reed there’s no reason there’s never gonna ask me why you know unleased not back then you know now that we work together all the time if I’m like hey I think we should do this you say well why do want me to do that because he’s you know he’s running ft X’s and he knows what’s going on more than I do so if I tell him to do something when I ask him to do something he might say well why do you want me to do that what’s the effect you look around it so it’s different now but my point is much like a varsity athlete you know that respects their coach and likes the coach and wants to do a good job well when JP was 21 years old he wasn’t asking me why to do anything and you know for that matter that was that was true for a lot of people that have worked for me over the years like they trust me and they don’t they don’t need to know why they’re doing what they’re doing they’re gonna do it they’re gonna do it to the best of their ability that doesn’t mean that I don’t tell them because I absolutely shit cuz if you don’t know why you’re doing what you’re doing you can’t read decentralized command doesn’t work can’t make decisions in the field so even with football athletes it’s cool that they’re totally just on board but you should still tell them why because it’s a good principle to follow in any leadership situation yeah yeah especially as a coach two men that’ll like supercharge like the learning process I think or the training process like even like in jujitsu there’s good examples like it like heip escape or shrimping right you know when you first start or whatever if you’re just doing across the mat you’re getting taught how to do it and all the stuff and you’re kind of like I don’t really get why we’re doing it good right now you’re glitter you find out yeah you just do it cause everyone else to do it what are you gonna do a new martial arts class and you’re gonna start asked us actually I said well axel an example is if you know why you’re learning the hip escape then you do it with better intent and no one could tell just by watching you do it whether what your intent was or not even though they might get a little sense of your intent but it’s one of those situations if you know why you’re doing it you’re gonna do it better just like if you’re coaching football and you got guys running a certain thing they’re not gonna ask you why but if you tell them why they know why they’re doing it they’re gonna do they’re gonna do it better yes so true the football thing because in football you do kind of some some oddball things if you just see it on the surface you know there’s thing called grass drills right where you just basically you get your feet like you kind of run in place real fast like kind of little bit wider stance and then you like basically you sprawl you know yeah and you know you hit the ground you get back up real quick and then you and they do there’s all these drills you do right they face the ball this way then you turn and then you come back and you’re chopping your feet a long time right so on on the surface I remember when I was like little doing that I remember thinking oh yeah this is just like conditioning really moving your whole body conditioning getting back up would but after a while you’re like nah because if you get knocked down which you will like Praful you get knocked down like three times and within like 15 seconds you know like the faster you can get up and start running again it’s like bruh that’s a good skill to have you know kind of thing so if you’re drilling that every single day every single day every single day not only do you get better and quick at that it becomes way more instinctual so okay then there’s a lot more to it obviously but men if someone was explaining that to you every time you’re doing it like even just yelling it out just calling it out as it’s happening like good this is gonna get you guys up quick when you get knocked down on the label and you know just yelling it out who cares whatever you don’t have to sit them down and say this is what you’re doing these guys you don’t have to say that necessarily I’m saying in a football situation but if you’re going through that training with that in your mind like oh I know why I’m doing this bro you’re gonna you’re gonna charge that thing and you know problem-solve better while you train yeah man it’s yeah it goes deep unknown I said when I was coaching a lot of MMA fighters I would always be telling them why they’re doing a drill and look made me think of when you were saying you know even if they’re just yelling to you you know yeah I’d be like this is the end of the round this is where you’re gonna you know yes if you’re down here this is where you’re gonna have to get back up this is where the fight gets one like yeah you know cuz you know some fighters if they get taken down and they’re a striker and they’re going against a good grapple if they could take a now they’re gonna have to get back up to win the fight you know and so when they know that you can see it compute in their brain whereas if I’m just saying it get back up ya know so tell people why
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