Nick Saban once asked sports psychologist Dr. Lionel Rosen,“What do you tell a team that thinks it has no chance to win?”
As John Talty writes, “Rather than identifying winning the game as the goal, Rosen encouraged Saban to stress winning each play instead. If players could zero in on what they needed to do a few seconds at a time to win the play—and could repeat that behavior throughout a game—they’d tend to get the desired big result without making it the focus. It took a sixty-minute game and broke it down into hundreds of seven-second plays.”
At times we all get overwhelmed and doubt ourselves when we face a big project or responsibility. Dr. Rosen reminds us in such situations to divide a challenge into its smallest components. A strategy for success, in other words, is to plan to do one thing well – one sentence, one brush stoke, one equation, one play.
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