Rebel, Risk Taker, Thinker, Different
Yesterday saw the passing of Steve Jobs, Co-founder of Apple Computers.
He had nothing to do with football and possibly knew little about it but what he was as a man, in my mind, links directly to what I believe all players, coaches and teachers should be.
Rebel, Risk Taker, Thinker, Different - all the things he was and in many ways still is within all Apple products. Those 4 characteristics are what as coaches we should be encouraging our young people footballers to be. They might sound extreme to a few but lets look at players/coaches who represent those ideas.
Eric Cantona, Diego Maradona, George Best, Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi... Jose Mourinho, Pep Guardiola, Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger...
Players and managers we love who have changed the way we think and approach football. Just like Jobs, he changed the way people looked at technology and for the better.
In this excellent 15 minute talk given in 2005 at Stanford University, Jobs talks about his life and career and the importance to "live before you die"
"...Don't be trapped by Dogma which is living with the results of other peoples thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become".
As coaches, teachers, parents, let us sometimes stop thinking what we understand to be best for our children and allow them to be rebels, risk takers, thinkers, different.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
He had nothing to do with football and possibly knew little about it but what he was as a man, in my mind, links directly to what I believe all players, coaches and teachers should be.
Rebel, Risk Taker, Thinker, Different - all the things he was and in many ways still is within all Apple products. Those 4 characteristics are what as coaches we should be encouraging our young people footballers to be. They might sound extreme to a few but lets look at players/coaches who represent those ideas.
Eric Cantona, Diego Maradona, George Best, Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi... Jose Mourinho, Pep Guardiola, Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger...
Players and managers we love who have changed the way we think and approach football. Just like Jobs, he changed the way people looked at technology and for the better.
In this excellent 15 minute talk given in 2005 at Stanford University, Jobs talks about his life and career and the importance to "live before you die"
"...Don't be trapped by Dogma which is living with the results of other peoples thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become".
As coaches, teachers, parents, let us sometimes stop thinking what we understand to be best for our children and allow them to be rebels, risk takers, thinkers, different.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
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