Last one on this subject I promise.  It's very important to me and I feel that people don't focus on it enough.

When I was younger either a teach or friend explained to me that knowledge is what you learned from books and wisdom is what you learned from life.  

Everyone (in American, at least) seems to think in extremes.  Democrat or Republican.  Christian or Atheist.  Pro-life or pro-choice.  For the death penalty or against it.  There seems to be no middle ground on anything.  Everything seems black or white.

From my experiences the answer is always in the middle.  

People who say knowledge is the end all probably need some wisdom and the opposite is just as true.  Neither is useful without the other.  Either you are missing out of new, inventive ideas or you haven't a clue how to use them correctly in an actual training session.

Rather than taking sides work on helping to balance things out.

80/20 like I mentioned in the last post seems like a ratio.  Every 4 hours you coach spend an hour reading.  The only caution I want to mention with this is if you only do 4:1 experience to reading make sure you are reading real material like trusted books and peer reviewed articles.

If you are going 2:1 or 1:1 you can spend more time reading light stuff like blogs.  The reason being that blogs can be filled with garbage info or not be related to topics that help you.  Most of the blogs I read don't know what the hammer throw is, but still have useful knowledge.

Journal articles on the other hand are always great reads.  The online ones tend to put out 30-100 new abstracts and it's easy to pick through to see which ones will be helpful.  Plus they are short unless you pay for the whole article.

If you ignore one of these areas you will always be lacking something.  Please trust me when I say you need to balance the two and be known for being the most experienced, well read coach in your area.

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