Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 2084. As many of you know,

one of my favorite podcast is the Founders podcast by David Senra. And I was listening to an episode.

Can't remember which one, but he reminded me of one of my favorite stories. A story that took place in

1943, Edwin Land took a picture while he was on a

family vacation and his three-year-old daughter, Jennifer, asked him a question that would eventually

change the world. And here's the question. She asked, why can't I see the picture now? Now, most people

would have ignored it.

Most parents would just say that's how cameras work.

But Land was different.

He was very curious.

He was very innovative.

And instead of just shrugging that question off, he saw that question as a challenge.

And then he spent the next five years developing a process that made the invisible

immediate. And in 1948, five years after his daughter asked that question, he introduced a camera

called the Polaroid camera, an invention that changed the photography game. And as I was thinking about that, I thought that

as coaches, great coaches take the same approach. Athletes are often working, grinding, putting in the

efforts. And they don't always see their progress. A lot of times they're stuck in the gap between

where they are and where they want to be,

and sometimes they don't see that their process they have is going to get them to where they

want to go. And progress becomes invisible. And when progress becomes invisible, doubt begins to

creep in. And that's where these good coaches come in. They don't just tell them these platitudes and keep going,

but they make growth tangible. They point at it and they help players realize that they are growing,

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