Importance of Coaches Understanding the Self-Determination Theory with Dr Alex Auerbach

I think coaches and support staff, I mean, a part of your role is to create one, create a high performance environment, right? So create an environment where people feel like they can express themselves. Create an environment where people's autonomy is supported. Right. And they're encouraged and given choice. Emphasize things like competence and mastery, sort of emphasizing development and progress and growth, focusing on things like how connected people feel, the cohesion of the team. Right. These are all principles from self determination theory, but there are also things that increase intrinsic motivation and enhance performance. So I think, you know, rule number one or priority one for coaches and support staff is essentially creating a context where high performance can emerge. Right. So, you know, if you look at elite levels of sport, Olympians, for example, the primary stressor Olympians identify that undermines their peak performance is actually organizational issues.