Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court

A Key to Learning

People learn more effectively if information is given in bite-size amounts rather than everything all at once.

There was a time when I gave all my players a rather extensive, bulky blue handbook of detailed information relating to everything we were going to do as a team. Later I decided that too many of them really did not study and learn it. There was a tremendous amount of information, and perhaps it was just overwhelming. I decided to change my approach.

Instead, I began passing out information a little at a time. I found this method was productive, but it also required that I use good judgment in the frequency, amount, and type of information I distributed.

Instead of a great big heavy book of information, I gave the players ...