
#4 Prof Damian Hughes - The Barcelona Way
The Sport Psych Show
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When You're Not Ready to Marry Your Talent to Those Behaviors
He employed a guy called Manel SDR who was a water polo player as his assistant and one of the tasks that he gave SDR was to simply watch the bench. He said if there was a chance that went wide I want you to tell me who reacts in empathy of like holding the head because the chances just been missed versus who the players that sit where they're at their arms crossed uninterested. That would tell me in behavioral terms is they're sulking because they're not in the team so they're putting their self interest above the team's interest. Once you found a consistent who the players consistently sought on the bench because they weren't selected eventually they weeded them out
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