Mark Arnold.

Tom Brady wants us to consider the feeling of comfortable and the experience of uncomfortable…he believes progress lies in the space that occupies the latter, the uncomfortable… In sport, this brand of uncomfortable is usually injected into training - often through tough to accomplish tasks in activities. Or with session design that demands a problem be solved using new tactical actions. Or with an activity that stretches technical capability. It can also involve a game with consequences that increases the experience of pressure and subsequent anxiety. In the workplace, where people have a poverty of practice, skills have to be developed during actual performance. To improve your facilitative skills you actually have to facilitate a meeting for real. To improve your pitch under pressure you actually have to pitch under pressure. Sport provides access to daily practice…the workplace only provides access to daily performance. Sport, broadly, is practice rich but performance poor (performance itself rarely happens). The workplace is performance rich and practice poor… …this phenomenon brings an interesting dynamic to the table if we want to get better at getting better…