Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 2019.

One thing we do very often an elite performance, whether it be coaches, executives, or

obviously athletes, is embracing the power of a debrief. There's that phrase that you know I'm not a big

fan of. Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.

Although I understand the spirit of that quote, I truly believe and have seen that sometimes you win, sometimes you learn and you, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, and you learn from both.

And that's where the power of debriefing comes in.

It is not just a recap of

highlights, but it is crucial in transforming experiences into learning, transforming that win and that

loss into lessons that you can carry with you moving into the future.

It's the process where you take your insights, the insights of your coaches and your teammates

or whoever's around, and you turn them into ways you can get better next time.

And taking time to debrief will help you take every win, every loss, and build for the

future. A lot of people don't like to debrief because they either, A, don't think about how

important it is or underestimate how important it is. They don't think they have the time to do it.

And then some people are just,

they just don't like to stare their failures in the face. That's when it's really important to

debrief. Now it can be very simple. All you do is give yourself a set of questions that you think

will best help you for the future. I've shared this before. You could ask three questions.

What did I do well? What did I learn? What am I going to do better? How did we, you can say, what are things that I was able to

control that led to my success? And what were things that I couldn't control that led to my success or

failure? As you give yourself a set of questions that you ask yourself or your team after at the

end of every iteration, at the end of every game or competition, and then capture and document

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