Another sign of a new day. I love that Brad Holmes has hired a psychologist to help these young adults manage themselves and make healthy choices. That shows a commitment to winning that includes genuinely taking care of our players. Smart, even classy.
"sometimes you never know what’s going on and it’s easy to say, “Oh he’s not right. You can’t count on the guy.” But there’s always a reason why. Some of it is physical, some of it pertains to just not getting the playbook. But what about the issues that are deeper than that that we need to get to? What’s going on at home? Did somebody come back into his life that was not good for him? There’s just so many things that come into play. We felt like that was important to address that, and have a resource on staff that can help with that.” - Brad Holmes
After years of being verbally abused by Patricia on his 4 wheeler, the players could probably use as many psychologists and mental health professionals as possible.
Wow, thanks for finding this GIF @Snags . I have talked about this study for a few years now after I saw the documentary for the first time.
It speaks to different kinds of intelligence and spacial awareness and how the power of speech is a detriment to other skills and levels of awareness. As an oversimplified statement there is a reason the person that seems super smart and speaks well is actually dumb when you get to more basic things. And on the flipside those that don’t seem smart and sound dumb AF might have increased intelligence in other areas outside of speech and related items.
The study has many iterations, but the one in the GIF is the number game. They flash a series of numbers in front of a monkey and then a human. The game is when they take away the numbers you have to touch every single number in number order (1, 2, 3, 4, etc).
They find that humans need a certain amount of time to read all of the numbers and even more time to remember where each one is located. When the numbers are “flashed” the average human is lucky to see AND remember the first 2-3 numbers.
The monkey on the other hand can instantly see all of the numbers and photographically remember and touch all of the numbers in perfect number order. It’s amazing to see.
FASCINATING. I’ve read books on this too. We only have a certain amount of creative juice too. There are also subsets to different types of intelligence. Love this conversation, and this stuff. I know to stay in my own lane, when it comes to IQ-type intelligence, even football intelligence. LOL.
I am blown away by how smart some of you guys are, for sure. I know my genius…and the opposite of it. LOL
Now, that one word opens up a whole rabbit hole to interesting things about the brain! The little shortcuts we use constantly (out of necessity) are very interesting. It’s also crazy how you have some academics who insist we should ‘trust our instincts’ more, and others who declare how these shortcuts lead us astray.
Man, this board. It has cool/smart people on it. Thanks for keeping it fresh in the offseason!!
