Paul’s Blog
December 12, 2020
IT’S A COACH’S JOB TO ADAPT TO THE PLAYER, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND
What I've come to understand is if you don't improve, you deteriorate. You have to have a rage to master and I try to be a better version of myself every day. Unlike being the CEO of a company, my constituency is always the same age. Every day, my age goes farther away from them, so I have to find ways to stay relevant. I need to go to them to connect, not the other way around. I'm here for them. I need to know what Lady Gaga wore at the ball last night. I need to know what Twitter is. I don't want to know any of that stuff, but I have to stay relevant.
One of my many great deficiencies is that I am infinitely more comfortable speaking to a group than I am speaking to individuals. The bigger the audience, the more comfortable I am. One on one, I really struggle. I feel insecure. In this day and age, with me coaching kids who have been raised to believe that they're the center of the universe, I need to become more comfortable one on one. And it needs to happen regularly with an ongoing dialogue. That's a discomforting place for me, but it's a place that I need to improve upon.