Today’s practice began with a question. I asked one of the sports teams what they believe about film study. Heard lots of bullshit, well intended mind you, but bullshit nonetheless. Coach brought perspective. He shared film is fact. Video doesn’t lie. He’s mostly right but I disagreed, anyway.
Film, I believe, is feedback.
If your aim is excellence, feedback is the breakfast of champions. Fact. Every day you wanna get you a bowl full of it, right. I mean if you’re aimed at your best you understand it ain’t happening without the help of other truth tellers. You have blind spots. Me too. Truth tellers are required for any of us to illuminate what we alone cannot see. Next time you do a post mortem on whatever is your gig, seek feedback. Ask for it. Don’t be in a hurry to get it over with. Make your teammates give you feedback you can use.
Film is not fact. Film is feedback. The best film study needs to be talked through. Remember, we don’t see things the way they are. We see things the way we are. Fact. What, friend, do you believe?
Live hard. Love harder…
BUILT TO LEAD 
Boom. This is so true. “We don’t see things the way they are we see things the way we are.” This is true on and off the battlefield. The mask in the mirror can be blurry. Desperately need truth-tellers to get the make-up off and see what is truly there. FACT. For most people, including me, truth is often hard to hear. Want to know how strong your CORE is? Have a truth-teller come in and tell you some truth.
“The strength of a person’s spirit would then be measured by how much ‘truth’ he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
Tougher? Probably not – truer? You damn right.
Live hard. Love harder.
Great stuff, JimmyTHEgant…