After the victory of Italy over France rugby, the Italian players have said that Brunel has taught them the meaning of sport, to enter in the field with the desire to win and to achieve this we must dare. Means having the courage to dare to do something that is risky. I want to note that this approach is the basis not only of winning mentality but also motivation. For the reason that human beings are motivated by three needs: competence, socialization and excitement.
The latter, the excitement, is supported by the ability to perform activities perceived as exciting, to know how to take risks (calculated) is the way this need is accomplished. It’s a need that is already present in childhood and the box below shows the main reasons.
Knowing how to take risks
It’s related to be able to move thinking during the activities. For example, in football more and more coaches say that the young players rarely shoot at goal or do a dribbling. Pull the ball into the goal is a situation where it is possible to have wrong execution and to be accused for the other guys to want to play alone. The young player take this risk if he knows that the coach appreciates this kind of behavior, if rewards the daring and not only the correct actions or those that have been previously prepared with the team. From the cognitive point of view, to be able to think and take a risk during the game are two aspects which improve the development of motor intelligence, which is highly developed among athletes.
As we can see, we should not get in national team to dare, just create training situations in which young people should take initiatives to meet the needs of the exercise.
