"Olivia excels by creatively breaking constraints." Full episode available here... http://www.youtube.com/@thetalentequation https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-talent-equation-podcast/id1209549739 https://open.spotify.com/show/4Y6kNO92EnWFv6zkeCLcsr?si=26QQgS7vTZakPF2ZtPCzaQ #HockeyPlayer #Innovation #CreativeThinking

"She excels by creatively breaking constraints and approaching tasks in innovative ways." Full episode available here: http://www.youtube.com/@thetalentequation https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-talent-equation-podcast/id1209549739 https://open.spotify.com/show/4Y6kNO92EnWFv6zkeCLcsr?si=26QQgS7vTZakPF2ZtPCzaQ #HockeyPlayer #CreativeThinking #Innovation #TalentEquation

"Coaches can test hypotheses and adapt their methods through uncomfortable learning." Full episode available here... http://www.youtube.com/@thetalentequation https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-talent-equation-podcast/id1209549739 https://open.spotify.com/show/4Y6kNO92EnWFv6zkeCLcsr?si=26QQgS7vTZakPF2ZtPCzaQ #CoachingMethods #TeamManagement #Leadership #HypothesisTesting

"Coaches can test hypotheses and adapt their methods through uncomfortable learning." Full episode available here... http://www.youtube.com/@thetalentequation https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-talent-equation-podcast/id1209549739 https://open.spotify.com/show/4Y6kNO92EnWFv6zkeCLcsr?si=26QQgS7vTZakPF2ZtPCzaQ #CoachingMethods #HypothesisTesting #AdaptableCoaching #UncomfortableLearning

Adopting the ecological approach requires careful implementation in order not to leave athletes feeling like caged tigers released to the wild. Find out more: http://www.youtube.com/@thetalentequation https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-talent-equation-podcast/id1209549739 #Environment #Analogy #Preparation #Talent

Adopting the ecological approach requires careful implementation in order not to leave athletes feeling like caged tigers released to the wild. Learn more http://www.youtube.com/@thetalentequation http://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-talent-equation-podcast/id1209549739 #Analogies #EnvironmentPrep #TalentEquation

In this conversation, I speak with Barry Jones, an ice hockey coach based in Australia who works with the Perth Inferno Women's team. Barry shares his remarkable journey from working with people with disabilities to embracing the principles of ecological dynamics and applying them with an elite level team where his team has just 45 minutes per week to train whilst competing interstate.  Three Key Takeaways: Autonomy carries emotional weight: Barry discovered that when athletes transition from being controlled to becoming autonomous decision-makers, they begin to wear failure personally. This emotional shift requires coaches to understand the psychological safety needed when athletes are learning to become independent thinkers, particularly with athletes who may have been conditioned to wait for coach direction. 'Environmental sports' shape how games are played: Barry introduces the concept of "environmental sports"—the idea that sports reflect the cultural and sporting environment they're played in. Ice hockey in Australia is influenced by AFL, basketball, and cricket, creating a different flavour of the game compared to Canada or the US. Understanding these sociocultural constraints is crucial for effective coaching. If you're comfortable, you're not learning: Barry's coaching philosophy centres on creating productive discomfort through battle games with time constraints. Rather than flow drills where players rehearse scripted movements, every training task places athletes in decision-making situations that mirror game pressures. This approach demands that both athletes and coaches feel uncomfortable in their learning. Join The Guild of Ecological Explorers to dive deeper into conversations like this and connect with practitioners exploring constraints-led approaches in their own contexts. Head to www.thetalentequation.co.uk and click the 'join a learning group' button.

Instructional coaching is like a satnav. Links to our podcast and YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/@thetalentequation https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-talent-equation-podcast/id1209549739 #InstructionalCoaching #Education #Learning #Teaching

Instructional coaching prevents familiarity with learning environments. Learn more at http://www.youtube.com/@thetalentequation https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-talent-equation-podcast/id1209549739 #InstructionalCoaching #LearningEnvironment #Satnav

Mastering a counter-intuitive skill can actually hinder normal performance. http://www.youtube.com/@thetalentequation https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-talent-equation-podcast/id1209549739 #SkillAcquisition #CognitiveBias #LearningCurve #TalentDevelopment

Discover the backwards bike analogy. Mastering counter-intuitive skills hinders normal performance. http://www.youtube.com/@thetalentequation https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-talent-equation-podcast/id1209549739 #BackwardsBike #Learning #Skills #Analogy

Unintended behaviours can emerge in learners. Coaches must understand and guide the learning process. http://www.youtube.com/@thetalentequation http://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-talent-equation-podcast/id1209549739 #LearnerBehaviours #Coaching #SuperstitiousPigeons #LearningProcess

This video explains superstitious pigeons and unintended behaviours. http://www.youtube.com/@thetalentequation https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-talent-equation-podcast/id1209549739 #SuperstitiousPigeons #LearnerBehaviours #CoachingChallenges #UnintendedBehaviours

In this special 300th episode of the podcast my good friend Andrew Wilson from Leeds Beckett University delivers a ;Christmas Lecture for members of the Ecological Explorers Club and The Guild of Ecological Explorers. In the lecture he navigates a fascinating discussion about how ecological psychology reconceptualises memory. Rather than viewing memory as stored representations in the brain, Andrew introduces a radical embodied approach where remembering is an active process of reassembling ourselves into the dynamical systems we once were. Drawing on Robin Wilford and Mike Anderson's recent paper on radical embodied memory, he challenges us to think about memory not as a noun but as a verb - not as something we have, but as something we do. Three Key Takeaways: Memory isn't stored, it's reconstructed: The traditional view of encoding, storage, and retrieval misses the point. What remains stable over time isn't a representation tucked away in your brain, but your capacity to become the kind of brain-body-environment system that can manifest that behaviour again. You don't retrieve a memory - you reassemble yourself into something capable of doing what you did before. The entire system remembers, not just the brain: Skilled behaviour emerges from the coupling of brain, body, and environment working together as a dynamical system. When you learn to hit a softball or walk on ice, you're not just changing your brain - you're reorganising your entire perception-action system. This is why muscle memory is misleading language; the remembering happens in the whole assembled system, not in isolated parts. Learning changes what you are, not what you know: Every experience reshapes you as a dynamical system, adding new capabilities to your state space. When you learn a new skill, you become an entirely different kind of system - one that can now do this new thing as well as all your previous capabilities. This explains why confidence knocks can be so disruptive: they don't block access to a stored memory, they reshape your dynamic in ways that make you literally unable to reassemble into the system that could perform that skill. Join The Guild of Ecological Explorers to explore these ideas further and connect with a community of practitioners thinking differently about coaching and development. Head to www.thetalentequation.co.uk and click the 'join a learning group' button. https://psychsciencenotes.blogspot.com/2025/11/radical-embodied-memory-wilford.html

Disruption can be a necessary step to address inequalities. http://www.youtube.com/@thetalentequation https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-talent-equation-podcast/id1209549739 #Disruption #Inequality #Change #Innovation