The Basketball Podcast: EP359 with John Bloom on Insights from Expert Coaches

John Bloom Quotes:

“As coaches, we learn that we can actually provide a higher service to other people, when we do invest in our health, in ourselves and our development and it’s not selfish to do that. It’s in the goal of providing a greater service and being able to give more to the people we work with.”

“One big theme of the book is mentorship. I think coaching is an apprenticeship, mentorship based model and profession . . People call it different things, a board of advisors, a board of directors . . Rod Olson talked about having a Mount Rushmore of four people you can go to. And some of them[coaches] talk about having different people for different areas of your life.”

“You have to find somebody that’s going to invest back in you and be willing to invest in that relationship to mentor you. Because it is, it’s a, it’s a two-way street. You have to be willing to be mentored and put everything into that, but you also have to have someone that’s willing to mentor because it’s an investment of time and effort to mentor somebody. And in finding that person, it’s not always going to be the person with the big logo.”

“A really good framework for helping people make these [coaching career] decisions is what a lot of coaches talked about this framework called the four P’s . . think about pay, progression, personal life and purpose as four categories . . I shouldn’t be looking just because I feel like it’s time to look.”

“How are we responding when one of our athletes is injured . . How much of an importance has to be on that mental state as much as that physical recovery, especially if we’re talking about a longer term injury.”

“What are the behaviors that start to show up in ourselves when we get to those stress points? I think it’s important to create that intentional time where we can be with our thoughts and our own reflection and start to really see those things . .  what are the yellow flags?”

“One of the cool things about the book is there are so many of these coaches that are at the very highest level of their profession and so many of them talked about those struggles and failures they had.”

“It’s a huge part of getting better. Just like our players, we need to push that challenge/skill balance where we’re going to fail sometimes to actually get better.”

“The athletes these coaches are talking about with the mindsets and the psychological makeups at the highest level, they [the coaches] know what they’re going to get. And that allows for a consistency in production, but also consistency in development.”

“How can we align individual needs or individual wants and desires with the goal of the team? We’re not making it an opposition where you have to put aside whatever you want or whatever your goals are as an individual, but how can we meld those together where you see what’s best for the team is best for you as individual?”

John Bloom Breakdown:

John Bloom Selected Links from the Podcast:

John Bloom
Strength In Numbers: Insight from Top Coaches on How to Build Your Career, Handle Failure, and Achieve Long-Term Coaching Success
Rod Olson
Scott Kuhn
Zack Zillner
Tim Doyle
Dan John
Tony Holler
Bill Beswick
Darby Rich
Molly Binetti
Anson Dorrance
Dean Smith
Roy Williams
Brett Bartholomew