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Ted Kroeten is the founder of Joy of the People, a non-profit organization that promotes free play as a way to build healthier kids and stronger communities. By simply watching children play, he began to notice what had been lost in the transition from street play to private academies. He discovered the value of free play, how to build sports talent and the secret not of “overload” but of its opposite, “underload”. Fortunately, Ted now shares these insights with the rest of us.
Notes of the episode
Joy of the People website
Fitness landscape | Wikipedia
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture | Johan Huizinga
The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life | Robert Trivers
NATÀLIA BALAGUÉ | Biological Intelligence
Orgel’s rules | Wikipedia
Just respect the essence | Martí Cañellas
Philosophical Investigations | Ludwig Wittgenstein
Universal Play Grammar | Ted Kroeten
Juanma Lillo - El mejor libro de táctica y las probabilidades | Fútbol Práctico
Stephen Krashen | Wikipedia
The Link Between Evolution and Language | Richard Dawkins | TED
Bernardo Silva don’t do gym | Out of Context Football
Why Athletes Don’t “Acquire” Skill—They Adapt it w/ Duarte Araújo | The Adaptable Athlete Podcast
PAU CASASSA | Idea Barça


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Andreu Enrich returns to Fosbury Flop, keeping the bar as high as he left it: connecting genuine ideas and philosophers such as Nietzsche, Heidegger, or Foucault with the figure of the coach. Now, the chapter in Catalan begins; in English, you have the YouTube video of the episode.
Notes of the episode
Unpopular opinion of Andreu Enrich | @martict99
The art of coaching: a matter of walls and slopes | @JordiLieF
Coaching meditations | Andreu Enrich
SMALL-SIDED GAMES: How to effectively train your players in variable and complex environments | Andreu Enrich
Hockey: 50 Tips From Intelligent Players | Andreu Enrich
The Birth of Tragedy | Friedrich Nietzsche
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture | Johan Huizinga
Man, Play and Games | Roger Caillois
Les estructures elementals de la narrativa | Albert Sánchez Piñol
Fragments | Heraclitus
On Nature | Paramenides
Citadelle | Antonie Saint-Exupéry
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder | Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Being and Time | Martin Heidegger
Victus: The Fall of Barcelona | Albert Sánchez Piñol
Antoni Gaudí, vida i obra | Armand Puig i Tàrrech
JAVIER CAÑADA | Training between Ulm and Cádiz
The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli
Pregària a Prosèrpina | Albert Sánchez Piñol
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison | Michel Foucault
Sport, Coaching, and Performance | Jim Denison & Zoe Avner
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power | Byung-Chul Han
The Concept of the Political | Carl Schmitt
Fora de classe. Textos de filosofia de guerrilla | Marina Garcés
Phenomenology of Perception | Maurice Merleau-Ponty


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From the very first moment I read about design, I was captivated. Moholy-Nagy said that “designing is not a profession but an attitude of resourcefulness and inventiveness”. Miguel Milá, that it “consists of fulfilling a function while maintaining emotion”. Bruno Munari called it “a method centered around problem-solving”. And Don Norman stated that “the goal is to produce a great product, one that is successful, and that customers love”. I kept wondering to myself: “Doesn’t all this speak to me as a coach?” To explore this connection, I chat with Javier Cañada: someone I dare not classify into any label, adjective, or profession. The conversation is in Catalan. The English version is available in the YouTube video of the episode.
Notes of the episode
Newsletter: De Ulm a Cádiz | Javier Cañada
Lo esencial: Una guía de diseño para la vida | Miguel Milá
¿Cómo nacen los objetos? Apuntes para una metodología proyectual | Bruno Munari
The Design of Everyday Things | Donald A. Norman
La pregunta | Javier Cañada
Santa Olalla: Una grieta en el destino | Javier Cañada
Ivrea, 1982 | Javier Cañada
Les estructures elementals de la narrativa | Albert Sánchez Piñol
The Book of Tea | Kakuzō Okakura
Lo Barroco | Eugeni d’Ors
Dios lo ve | Óscar Tusquets
Programa Desarrollo Directivo y Liderazgo | Jaime Rodríguez de Santiago, Instituto Tramontana
It’s not you. Bad doors are everywhere | Vox


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After our first conversation, the authenticity of Albert Batalla led me to define him as the “Michael Johnson of motor skills learning, training... and life”. We met again for a second conversation about the advice he would give to his younger self at the start of his journey as a coach and professor. Next, he shares his answer —in Catalan. You can also know it in English in the YouTube video of the episode.
The first episode with Albert Batalla here: ALBERT BATALLA | The art and science of teaching
Notes of the episode
JOAN CORTÉS | The coaching genius
Els pagesos | Josep Pla
Vivir no es tan divertido, y envejecer, un coñazo | Óscar Tusquets
Misguided praise junkies | James Vaughan
Efficient foot motor control by Neymar’s brain | Eiichi Naito & Satoshi Hirose
Peter principle | Wikipedia
Victus: The Fall of Barcelona | Albert Sánchez Piñol
Monty Python's Life of Brian | Terry Jones


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Josep Vicenç Mestre masters the art of communication in environments that, at first glance, seem to have little in common. Next, I try to see, in Catalan, what I can learn to apply to my own context. As always, if you would like the English version, you have the YouTube video of the episode.
Notes of the episode
Jakobson’s functions of language | Wikipedia
Paraules de president. Nació i Estat als discursos de Prat de la Riba, Puig i Cadafalch i Macià | Josep Vicenç Mestre Nogué
Nació i Estat. L'intent d'encaix entre Catalunya i Espanya (1833-1933) | Josep Vicenç Mestre Nogué
Jordi Fernández Introduced as Brooklyn Nets Head Coach | Brooklyn Nets
2024 Commencement Address by Roger Federer at Dartmouth | Darmouth
Famous debate moment: Bush, Sr. checks his watch in 1992 | CBS News
Kennedy vs. Nixon: The first 1960 presidential debate | PBS NewsHour
How to sound smart in your TEDx Talk | Will Stephen | TEDx Talks
Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are | Amy Cuddy | TED
The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle | Baltasar Gracián


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