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#120 Doug Lemov - The Coach’s Guide to Teaching

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The Limitation of Working Memory

Coaches often tell players to do things while they're trying to execute, which degrades their performance. You really can't teach anything new in a game. So because of the limitation of working memory, our free back needs to be specific and crisp. The work words need t be chosen, which i think you describe as economy of language,. If there's a most useful phrase in this chapter, it's a quote from a coach in new zealand who says, if you chase five rabbits who catch none.

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