It’s easier to gain a reputation as a sports scientist by finding holes in new tech or ideas than by truly innovating sports training. We should instead be focusing more on the real role of a sports scientist - improving athlete results.
Software/product development roles require a very different mindset from a role in the service industry.
As somebody who has a tough time with trusting myself in a professional setting, I've had to develop a strategy for overcoming this decision paralysis. Here's two examples of self doubt that sometimes make it hard for me to be decisive when managing my product.. and how I try to mitigate them
My name is Kyle Lindley and I’m a learning product manager, mostly. I’ve learned a LOT in two months. A lot of the things I’ve learned are very unimaginative and honestly are not my proudest things to broadcast. But I do think they are worth writing about. It’s like discussing your losses on the stock market… it’s tough, but I think it is as valuable or more than only talking about your big wins.
I’m in the middle of Joan Vickers’s Perception and Cognition, and Decision Training: The Quiet Eye in Action for my work, trying to figure out how we can use some of this vision research to train baseball hitters more effectively. Don’t worry, I’m not going to bore you with the ideas I have about hitting. However, I am going to bore you with my ideas on what I hope is more applicable to you.
I just got finished reading Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink. What a book. First, I think it’s worth talking about my first main takeaway which is that intuition and thin-slicing can be productive. Books like Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman and The Righteous Mind by Jonathon Haidt discuss ways in which our fast thinking system affects the way we process and interpret information, oftentimes through a more negative lens.