Hey, sports fans, Coach Nick here and welcome to the B-Ball Breakdown podcast. Today, I'm pleased to have on the show Dr. Noah St. John, who is an author of 27 books, including one called Power Habits, which focuses on peak performance. And the reason why I wanted to have Dr. St. John on the show today is to discuss coaching and communication and motivation and

unlocking potential. So, so Noah, thanks so much for being on the show. And I'm, I'm really excited

to sit down here and get some really sort of fascinating scientific. I'm hoping you're going to give

me proof of what I've been talking about actually works. So what do you say?

Absolutely happy to be here, Nick. Terrific. So, you know, I think the diving point I get off on a lot of times on Twitter is we talk a lot about sort of generational trauma. And the fact that,

you know, as players and, you know, fans had played some version of basketball, for instance,

in their lives and they

probably had coaching that reflected what that coach had and what that coach had and going back

you know a hundred years and a lot of it deals with i think anger and disgust are the primary

communication methods so can you just sort of weigh in on that and and the fact that like what

we're dealing with

and maybe other ways you can help me to engage people who I think want to insist that that

is the best way to motivate and communicate?

Well, you're talking about these ancient rules of human motivation and they go back

thousands and thousands of years.

And it really comes down to,

in many cases, the carrot and the stick, right? We've heard that a million times. The carrot is,

here's what you want and dangling the carrot and the stick is wham, you know, hitting them

with that anger and disgust you just talk about. So, you know, the carrot and stick's been around

for millions of years. It'll be around for

millions more. But is it really the best way to motivate people, motivate your players, motivate

yourself? I don't believe that is true. No, not that it's going away because the reason that it's

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