Pick an approach, fail fast, try again
This is how Elon Musk has been so successful at overcoming issues & developing projects at an unbelievable rate
The same principle can be used in youth athletic development
Kids need to make errors to learn
In learning to move, in school, and in sports — mistakes are what makes kids smarter
Trial & Error Learning is based on two principles
1) the brain often does not get it right the first time
2) making mistakes is the key to developing intelligence
(Jensen, 2005)
The part of the brain that’s responsible for correcting errors is called the anterior cingulate. This structure is activated when what actually happened differed from what was expected. The anterior cingulate helps us take advantage of trial & error learning (Kopp & Wolff, 2000). Neural circuits become more efficient when the learner tries & fails and then eliminates what doesn’t work. However, feedback is necessary for those networks to be more accurate. The child must know when they made an error to learn from it. Neural connections become more efficient with feedback & become stronger with practice. This is where the relevance to sports comes in. Let the kids make mistakes & give them proper feedback so they can learn from those mistakes. For a simple example, if a kid is playing basketball and tries to throw it down to the post. The 1st time they might try to throw a chest pass & it gets stolen. The next time, they might bounce pass & be successful and that is how they develop those neural connections & learned. Point guards have been perfecting the art of the bounce pass for years, so now when they are playing at the highest level, the skill is automatic.
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