KINE 4520 Lecture Notes - Wayne Gretzky, Automatic Negative Thoughts, Vince Carter
13 Jun 2011
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Plato - believed highest level of success was predetermined. Aristotle - success is gained through training and learning. Ericsson -- researched the value of persistence and hard work at ___ state university. Expert performance in sport is typically the result of deliberate practice, as opposed to natural inborn talent. (ericsson, 2003) Ericsson found that the people we believe are natural talents have been practicing most of their lives and practice 3-5 hours per day, more is too much (burn out) e. g. lebron. Prof. talks about wayne gretszky and rushing to get dressed to go on ice early to warm-up for warm-up and others from the team followed. Wayne gretszky, serena williams, lebron james have a protein in their brain that(bdnf) allows them to learn a skill quicker than average allowing for more confidence and gaining risks and pick up things earlier than the rest of us.
