Elijah Bryant explains why players watch film after losses but avoid it after wins. Your brain uses emotional pain as a signal to fix mistakes. Embrace the discomfort of reviewing bad games and you'll improve faster.
If I would have known this, I'll be in the NBA. In basketball, we experience a lot of emotions, ups, downs. Emotions can be good if we know how to use them. So when we have a bad game, do we go and watch film? Or when we have a good game, do we go and watch film? We're usually watching film after a bad game because there is pain, there is emotion that is causing you to be proactive and problem solve. But if we're always getting rid of the discomfort, we're not listening to the emotions that are going to help us problem solve and be better in the future. So how do we do this? First things first, your brain wants to connect the dots and it uses your past experiences to do so. So basically this is what happens: if you watch film, your brain wants to understand and know exactly what happened in the past so you can apply it in the future. Oh, I know last time I made this turnover, but now I know from past experience that I should do this. So in short, that is saying the more you mess up and
