You’ve always felt that an athlete could get “in the zone” but the data people said its a fallacy.
It turns out they were wrong! Studies in recent years have fixed some of the errors in the traditional methods used for determining the likelihood that an athlete will perform better after a success.
Citations:
https://osf.io/preprints/osf/dmksp
https://osf.io/preprints/osf/pj79r
Examples
- Basketball players do in fact shoot better after making a shot.
- Baseball/Softball players will hit better in an at bat after a hit.
- This translates to all repeatable skills in sport.
When we’re working with teams one of our main goals is to identify the context in which individuals, and then the whole team, enter a flow state. These recent discoveries have served to validate what you probably already know.
The model for getting your athletes and team into a flow state requires that you meet individual’s core needs to create a context where they can get into a flow state:
