Dr James Vaughan on Culture, Praise Addiction, and Developing Skilled Performers
The Athlete Development Show
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What I Learned About Self-Determination Theory in Football
I was exposed to overwhelming like forms of extrinsic motivation and fell out of love with the game. In an environment that was very doggy dog very hyper competitive with the other players in the squad and with coaches who were not so yeah it was a pretty rough environment. I suppose I came to realize that whilst I was studying at university and then wanted to to dig into that in parallel as well so looking at players motivation and through the lens of self-determination theoryThat's that's why I end up doing in my masters but then coming out of that I realized that because I did an ethnography following like working as like a team manager and assistant coach in Australia in Melbourne under some really
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