History, Evolution and Self Belief

In today's episode of the Leader Manager Coach Podcast, Rob talks about why he thinks you should be believing in yourself more than you actually do. He also discusses the lessons of history and the speed of evolution. Do you think much has changed over half a century ago? You will be very surprised by the reality of it all.

Key Takeaways:

• Self Evaluation. The things that you do, it might be your work, your roles, and responsibilities or it might be a certain area in your life that people want you to feedback on. Aim to be 100%. But to be absolutely independent of the good opinion of other people. Follow our own paths and be our selves.
• Soccer Science is a book that was written in 1966. If you wouldn't look at the date of the book and read everything in it, you wouldn't know it was written over half a decade ago. Everything in that book is virtually as relevant today.
• Evolutionary process. Yes, technology has changed, a lot. However, in the Soccer and Science book, if you read this book, you actually realize that fundamentally not everything changes at the same rate, in the same speed, and often the real key fundamentals of things stay the same.
• Brian Johnson and Ryan Holiday, both these guys, this week, have content that's come across Rob's path. They reference things from 2000 years ago, great people from the past like Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus. They are commentating on society as it was then and went again.
• People don't do not fundamentally change at that speed so that the evolution of things. Fundamentally, the human being and the associated facets of being a human being whether that's your sporting excellence or your attributes essentially evolve at a slower rate.
• 60 years ago vs. 2018. 60 years ago, George is doing was saying exactly the same thing maybe with not the same amount of scientific thought process of rationalization behind it, but it was saying the same thing.

Best moments:

“Do what you feel is right, do what you wish to do, and be the person that you feel that you are born to be. If you like, and to follow your own path without paying heed to what you're advised to do or what other people think you should do.” - Joseph Campbell

“Thine own self, be true. Above all else, to thine own self, be true.” - Shakespeare

“It's ok having the skill. It's no good having the skill if you don't know how to use it.”

“I think that we're a little bit deluded, and we need to be a little bit more humble and look back and reference some things and not be so keen to throw things out because we maybe are doing a disservice to ourselves, and doing a disservice to the people who've gone before us.”

“In terms of human being, you throw away and is no longer relevant. That doesn't say that things aren't discovered. It means that we were barking up the wrong tree. That's evolution and that's the way that things go and we have to be prepared for that.”

Valuable Resources:

George Eastham

Brian Hall

Dick Bate

Soccer Science

Brian Johnson's website resource: https://www.optimize.me/

Ryan Holiday

Jack Charlton

About the host:

Rob Ryles is a UEFA qualified coach with a League Managers Association qualification and a science and medicine background. He has worked in the football industry in Europe, USA and Africa; at International, Premiership, League, Non-league and grassroots levels with both World Cup and European Championship experience.

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