What to discard rather than what to work on

Hello.

This is Mikado.

Can you decide on a menu item quickly at a family restaurant?

The reason it's hard to decide quickly is because you won't be able to eat the other things, right!

If I order the hamburger steak, I can't eat the pasta... If I eat the ice cream after the meal, I can't eat the pudding...

We struggle because we can only choose one thing.

Trade-off relationship

The term "trade-off" is becoming quite a major word.

Simply put, it means that to gain something, you must discard something else.

Like the family restaurant example earlier, ordering the hamburger steak means you cannot order the pasta or the katsudon here. (Unless you're a big eater, of course, haha)

Even for children, the struggle of trade-offs follows them every day!

After finishing dinner, should I play with the soccer ball, or play a game...?

Should I go to karaoke with friends, or go for individual practice...?

Deciding what not to do

It's my personal theory, but I think it's painful because we go in trying to decide what to do.

Therefore, I first go in to decide on what not to do (what to discard)!

I won't play games in my free time. To ensure that, I'll give my game console to a friend.

It's easy to say, but it seems quite difficult, doesn't it? So, it might be good to acquire the habit of discarding things starting from the easy ones.

At a family restaurant, I won't eat noodles today.
→ If you don't choose (discard) noodles, your options narrow down quite a bit!

Summary

I value this way of thinking.
I want my players to improve, I want to win many games, I want them to score many goals, and I want them to fail a lot!

Honestly, when I am in the field of coaching, there are many situations where I feel that trade-offs are not being considered.

There are times when players improve more by losing a game, and there are many games where scoring a lot of points doesn't lead to any real growth.

By the way, one thing I discard in my coaching practice is being too obsessed with winning games.

Of course, I go into every game intending to win.

However, rather than winning, I send as many players as possible onto the pitch to give them experience.

Rather than winning, I have them experience various positions to connect to their future growth.

Giving them experience, having the players improve, and winning the game too!

I know that this is the best-case scenario.

However, history's great figures have proven that you cannot achieve anything without the courage to discard something.

For the sake of the players' improvement, I have the courage to discard games that we might otherwise win.

It is one of the identities of my coaching.

Mikado