A Letter to the 15,000!
Dear budding sport scientist So you have enrolled on a sports science degree eh? You start this week? Exciting times ahead then. So what lies ahead for you at the end of your studies? I believe sport is more important…
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Time, the hidden menace at big competitions and how to harness it
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. Alfred Hitchcock There are 3 ways to slow down time. According to Einstein’s theory of relativity, the faster anything travels, the slower time passes, known as…
Technology, global connections and the World Cup
“I love those connections that make this big old world feel like a little village.” Gina Bellman The Olympics is a scattergun of en masse excellence, tracked by a country’s media flitting from one venue to the next…
Lessons in inspiring and communicating ideas
I spent three days last week speaking, learning and being inspired at the Cheltenham Science Festival. Now in it’s 17th year, it is a roaring success, despite me having spoken there for the last three years! I contributed to three…
The gap between analytics and actuality
“Analysis isn’t impact. Interpreting analysis isn’t impact. Taking action on analysis might be impact, but we have to evaluate it along the way.” Peter Vint, Supporting Champions Conference 2018 — Last week I attended the The Sports Performance Data &…
3 ways to check your satisfaction
“There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.” – Salvador Dali Many people have acted as mentors, coaches or trusted advisor throughout my career. I wouldn’t have been inspired…
Using our intelligences through the prism of effectiveness
The tale goes that at a dinner with Wordsworth, the poet Keats, toasted “confusion to the memory of Newton…because he destroyed the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to a prism”. Three years later Keats confirmed his disdain by…
Can we be competitive and collaborative?
Do you ever get that feeling, when you’ve got a win, a breakthrough or a reward – you just want to go and tell someone? I had it just the other day, when I hopped onto a train just as…
CORE skills aren’t SOFT
In 1958, as NASA began it’s search for aerospace pilots, the job description listed the need for the following characteristics; · Male (how 1950s?) · Approx 5’11” /180cm · Aged between twenty-five and forty · A science degree ·…
The sweet spot: Where Science, Purpose and Art converge
Legend has it, the charismatically, inspiring Baroness Sue Campbell visited Michael Schumacher’s pit in the mid 1990s and saw the chief engineer do two things. First, be extremely picky about how clean the floor was and second obsess about the…