A short motivational/instructional video by Ethan Khoza arguing that the subjective feeling after a workout (feeling good vs. feeling bad) is a poor indicator of learning. Khoza emphasizes that challenging workouts that cause mistakes are often better for learning and 'reshaping your brain' than easy workouts that merely feel good, because learning requires being in a challenging, error-prone state.
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When learning is the goal, we're after this reshaping of your brain. So understand the fact that feeling bad after a workout, where that learning is taking place, doesn't mean that it actually was bad. If we take two different situations right here, first situation, you're going through a very challenging drill, very challenging workout causes you to miss more, mess up more. Chances are, when that drill, that workout's done, you're probably going to feel worse than if you went through a workout that was a lot easier, where you made every shot, didn't lose the ball, you didn't mess up very much. You're probably going to feel better after that workout than you would after the first. Does that mean that the second workout was actually better for you? When it comes to our goal, which is learning, which is reshaping your brain, was that actually better for you from a learning perspective? No, it wasn't. You can't just go by, did I, do I feel good after this workout, or do I feel bad? If I feel bad, that it means it was bad. If I feel good, that means it was good. Because if you're just chasing after feeling good after every drill, after every workout, you're not going to put yourself in a place to reshape your brain and be in learning mode as often as you need to be. Again, if you want to be the best player that you can possibly be.
