"Do you know what that behavior is based on? Fear."

I relate to this 100%. The obsession to keep improving, to constantly be thinking about how to improve, the 'five more minutes' of work/preparation, it all stems from my fear of not being good enough.

Thank you for naming it, Marcelo.

The more we “kept the ball,” the less we did with it. We weren’t progressing. We weren’t taking risks.

And I could feel it, a slow erosion of something in the football.

It wasn’t that the players had stopped trying. It was that I had stopped inviting them to try.

For years, I’ve gotten really good at helping teams progress the ball forward in order to create opportunities (like the team below).