Take Complete Responsibility for Your Results

 

Bill Endicott was both my coach and the coach of a lot of great whitewater racers during the late 70s- early 90s.  He coached many world champions. 

In 2007 he was invited to go to China to talk to them about whitewater training centers where athletes can train together.  In his talk, he told the Chinese audience that the real key is to empower the athletes to make decisions for themselves and to learn all they can about the sport.  Here is a link to his talk:

http://sportperformancecentres.org/sites/default/files/3_USA_B_Endicot_Final_Dinner.pdf

Endicott feels that it is important to first of all take complete responsibility for your own success or failure.  It's not up to someone else to give you the information- you need to discover it yourself.  You need to become curious about the sport and discover all you can about it and apply that to your racing.

You become your own coach, in Endicott's words.  The top performers are the ones who don't wait for others to tell them things but they search and discover it for themselves.  They go way beyond the others in their pursuit of knowledge of the details of their sport due to their insatiable curiosity.

This is the key to success in any endeavor, according to Endicott.  He talks about his son's success as a rock musician and how he learned all he could about music and the music business and excelled at it. 

He talks about a first-hand experience with former President Bill Clinton, who is such a political junkie that he likes to discuss foreign political campaigns that he wasn't even involved in.  Bill Endicott has also worked in politics and has written a book about how to get political jobs in Washington D.C.   He has seen lots of successful people in many different areas and speaks from first-hand personal experience about how to achieve success.

Because on one level, this blog is about how to achieve success in whitewater slalom racing.  However, the methods of achieving success in one area are not much different from achieving success in other areas.  These are life lessons, not just paddling lessons.

So, take complete and total responsibility for your results.  Blame no one.  If you don't succeed at first, figure out how you could have done something different to achieve success.  Figure out every aspect of the sport on your own.  Listen to others, but use your own judgement.  Be your own coach.

Read this.  It could change your life:

http://sportperformancecentres.org/sites/default/files/3_USA_B_Endicot_Final_Dinner.pdf

Bill Endicott was both my coach and the coach of a lot of great whitewater racers during the late 70s- early 90s.  He coached many world champions. 

In 2007 he was invited to go to China to talk to them about whitewater training centers where athletes can train together.  In his talk, he told the Chinese audience that the real key is to empower the athletes to make decisions for themselves and to learn all they can about the sport.  Here is a link to his talk:

http://sportperformancecentres.org/sites/default/files/3_USA_B_Endicot_Final_Dinner.pdf

Endicott feels that it is important to first of all take complete responsibility for your own success or failure.  It's not up to someone else to give you the information- you need to discover it yourself.  You need to become curious about the sport and discover all you can about it and apply that to your racing.

You become your own coach, in Endicott's words.  The top performers are the ones who don't wait for others to tell them things but they search and discover it for themselves.  They go way beyond the others in their pursuit of knowledge of the details of their sport due to their insatiable curiosity.

This is the key to success in any endeavor, according to Endicott.  He talks about his son's success as a rock musician and how he learned all he could about music and the music business and excelled at it. 

He talks about a first-hand experience with former President Bill Clinton, who is such a political junkie that he likes to discuss foreign political campaigns that he wasn't even involved in.  Bill Endicott has also worked in politics and has written a book about how to get political jobs in Washington D.C.   He has seen lots of successful people in many different areas and speaks from first-hand personal experience about how to achieve success.

Because on one level, this blog is about how to achieve success in whitewater slalom racing.  However, the methods of achieving success in one area are not much different from achieving success in other areas.  These are life lessons, not just paddling lessons.

So, take complete and total responsibility for your results.  Blame no one.  If you don't succeed at first, figure out how you could have done something different to achieve success.  Figure out every aspect of the sport on your own.  Listen to others, but use your own judgement.  Be your own coach.

Read this.  It could change your life:

http://sportperformancecentres.org/sites/default/files/3_USA_B_Endicot_Final_Dinner.pdf