Coaching and Sport: conformism
Coaching and sport: two elements that, more and more often, are associated to improve athletic performance, obtain more satisfying results and increase the degree of well -being.
I am of the idea that there are many things we can do to give us the opportunity to notice the opportunities. Among these things a particular ability that, in my opinion, we should cultivate and develop continuously: to look at things from different points of view .
Offering stimuli to change the point of view is something I do very often with my coaching customers. As coach, in fact, I believe that looking at things in other respects is the best way to open doors where we just saw only walls.
All this has to do with every area of our life: personal, professional and, obviously also regarding the binomial coaching and sport.
Coaching and Sport: conformism
Let's take conformism for example. Certainly a term with a negative meaning, but which hides great opportunities. Let's see first of all the meaning.
According to the Treccani encyclopedia, conformism is:
The tendency to conform, even if only apparently, to doctrines, uses, opinions prevalent socially and politically.
In fact, the conformist tends to make his own, passively, the political and religious doctrines followed by the majority of the members of the group to which he belongs.
The other words the conformist is a person who passively adapts to what people around him do . All this without questioning rules and guidelines to which it aligns, and without asking any questions.
Certainly the conformist does not come out well from this description, but let's try to change the point of view. What would happen if we tried to exploit in our favor the natural tendency to conformism that, who more than less, we all have?
Try to think about what happens to those who start attending stimulating environments and interesting people. Try to think of those who decide to join a group of peers made up of people who support each other.
Here, conformism becomes a very powerful weapon for our improvement and our growth . By immersing ourselves in a context dotted with people who commit themselves to achieve something, we will be, in turn and thanks to conformism, led to adapt to a new level of commitment.
How do you become great swimmers?
Dan Chambliss is a sociologist who has dedicated years of his career to the study of professional swimmers. One of the conclusions to which it has come is that the real way of becoming a great swimmer is to enter a great team .
Who would get up every morning at 4 to go to train in the pool? Maybe your answer is something similar to "a madman". And you probably don't have all the wrong! But when you enter a great team and live in the midst of great athletes you realize that all your companions do it. And then you start doing it too, thanks to the natural propensity for conformism.
My advice is therefore to exploit conformism to your advantage. How? Identify the field of interest for you main and then find a group of peers who excel in that area. Most likely you will find habits other than yours in those people. Let conformism take you to adapt to the ways of thinking and the behaviors that have brought your equal to excellence. In this way your path to growth and improvement will receive a great acceleration.
Taking advantage of the push to conformism is only a way to improve your performance. Find out more about my sport coaching programs !
