Mat Mathews
Mr. Pace
ENGL 1102 T
15 March 2015
Pyramid of Success: For the Better an Athlete and Person.
Success is something that is not given or something you are born with it is something that is attained through morals and hard work. The idea of success comes in many of different forms. John Wooden is one of the most renowned basketball coaches. He has a variety of different accolades to his name. He was the head coach at UCLA for over 20 years were he won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period. He also was named national coach of the year six times. John Wooden is known for his success in the coaching basketball and for his success in creating a legacy of excellence and integrity. His ideas were complex and yet simple
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to understand. Growing up he was a very religious man and had to work for everything. John Wooden said, "Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming"(Wooden and Carty). John Wooden developed his famous model the pyramid of success based of his idea of success, the teachings from his Mother and Father and the Bible. His pyramid is one of the best philosophies on leadership and success. It provides the user with different attributes and ideas that could help them become better athletes, leaders and exemplary human beings. Every athlete should want to become the best that they could become in their sport and in life. John Wooden’s pyramid is a great tool for athletes to become success in all categories of being an athlete. His pyramid should be implemented to all athletes. Coach Wooden’s pyramid not only covers how to become a great leader it also helps the user become much more. To help understand his pyramid you first need to understand what the pyramid consists of and how it was created. John Wooden spent many years trying to identify a variety of different behaviors and ideas that an athlete needs to be successful. These behaviors are what he believed were necessary to achieve his ideas of success and leadership. John Wooden’s was a very religious man so a lot of his ideas and concepts derive straight from the Bible. Wooden “pyramid of success” consists of 25 Building Blocks that include discipline, faith, patience and self-control. (Lasley and Benson 6) In figure 1 you can see one type of John Wooden’s pyramid. There are a variety of different types of Coach Wooden’s Pyramid because it is so popular. The pyramid has been copied, plagiarized and pirated and that coach Wooden feels honored that it can help other reach success. (Wooden and Carty) The basic definition of an athlete is a person who is trained or skilled in exercises, sports, or games requiring physical strength, agility, or stamina.
When you think of someone being an athlete you usually think of someone who is well trained and someone who can excel is their respective sport. Athletes are constantly changing many of them want to become successful and improve. Constant performance improvement is an obsession (Schroth 141). Many of people tend to look up to athletes as models for their lives. For this reason athletes should be much more than someone who is strong or fast. He or she should be someone who can lead by example and requires great morals and character. With John Wooden’s pyramid being provided to athletes, this can be achieved through hard work and actually applying his teaching in the pyramid to his or her …show more content…
life. The senior class of Valdosta State football team is going over the pyramid together as a group to better understands what it takes to be a successful leader and an athlete. Falling short last year on the football field left a void in our hearts. We failed reaching the optimum goal of being national champions. We decided that something needed to be done, that we were missing a key component of become a great football team. We all decide to use John Wooden’s pyramid as a guide to help our team and with it we could then maybe attain ours goals. John Wooden’s pyramid had such a huge impact on his athletes as well as others, that it helped them attain their goals. And for this we thought it could provide us with what we needed to become a successful team. The reason John Wooden Pyramid is one of best models the impact that it has on its users and the versatility that it provides.
While at UCLA John Wooden gave his pyramid of success to all of his players as a guide to help them attain personal greatness as well becoming great leaders. Many of these athletes have had very successful careers in basketball and many other career paths. Many of John Wooden’s old players still use his pyramids ideas and apply them to their everyday lives. For example Bill Walton and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar point to the pyramid as a key to their success on and off the court. He had such a huge part in his player’s life that they still remember his teachings and will forever carry
them. Today there are a huge selection of motivational devices and philosophies out there. Other models of success don’t compare to Wooden’s model. These models don’t provide the in depth concepts that Wooden’s model portrays. For example other models usually depend of self-talk and positive thinking. One of the biggest upsides to his model compared to other is that it can be applied to multiple things rather to one thing. The versatility of the pyramid is amazing. The pyramid is not only geared toward athletes. It is geared toward the person him of her self so it can be applied to all. John wooden was a very successful man and did a lot of great things in his lifetime and one of things is creating the pyramid of success. He was not only a coach but also a mentor to his subjects. Wooden’s famous philosophy on coaching and life has become ingrained in the minds of his former players and continues to guide many of their lives today. (Edelhauser) John Wooden’s Pyramid of success is very versatile compared to others. His model is very in-depth and can provide the users with great concepts of what it takes to be successful leader and this is why it should be given to every athlete. Every athletes need to grow in all aspects from their sport to the lives. By using Wooden’s pyramid they will be able to see what it take to become successful in all aspects of life as well as their respective sport.
The Metamorphosis of Johnny Tremain Johnny Tremain is like a butterfly; he went through a transformation. Johnny Tremain is a book by Esther Forbes about a crippled boy during the American Revolution and the events he endures. Johnny Tremain was a very dynamic character because people and events affected him. People change main characters in many books. Johnny Tremain is no exception.
In the book, "They Call Me Coach" by John Wooden, he talks about the importance of a teacher and coach as a role model for kids. He talks about his successes he had in coaching, the lessons he has learned, and the ones he has taught. In the book, you will get to walk through his life from when he was a little kid and first fell in love with basketball to when he retired from active coaching at UCLA in 1975. He also talks about his "Pyramid of Success" and the traits that every player should have.
The famous retired basketball player Michael Jordan sees eye to eye with Gladwell vision of success. According to Michael Jordan “ I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career.I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 Times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again that is why I succeed.” by using facts and figures Michael Jordan highlights all his failures and how he grew from them and that to get to success you need work and
The NBA is well known for the number of amazing professional athletes it has had over the years. Some of the most gifted and talented individuals come through the NBA and one of the better-known superstars is none other than Kobe Bryant. For years people have wondered what makes Bryant so successful. The main contributors that lead to Kobe Bryant’s success is his hard work and dedication, his mindset, his natural ability’s and talent, and the people that have helped him throughout his life. Kobe Bryant was very successful in the NBA because of the amount of hard work he has put in, the people in his life, his relentless determination and his god given natural abilities.
“Be more concerned with you character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” These words of John Wooden are just a few out of many wise quotes millions of people, not just athletes, are inspired by today and likely will continue to be inspired by for a very long time. Basketball fans and experts consider John Wooden as one of, if not, the greatest coaches of all time. Much of his success is a result of his beliefs and coaching system. Knowing the background of Coach Wooden’s playing and coaching career plays a significant role in understanding how he practiced his beliefs with his teams and how his philosophy and success intertwined to set a precedent for the remainder of collegiate basketball.
Worthwhile results come from hard work and careful planning (Wooden). Iyanla shows this by despite being a single mother of three children and being on welfare, she was determined to do something in her life not only for her children but for herself as well. She did that by enrolling into Medger Evers College and graduated summa cum laude and later attended Queens College and received her law degree in 1988. Enthusiasm In Wooden’s Pyramid of Success, Enthusiasm means brushing off upon those with whom you come in contact. You must truly enjoy what you are doing (Wooden).
"THE LEGEND, THE LEGACY, THE LESSONS." The John R. Wooden Course. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Mar. 2014.
John Jay was born in New York City on December 12, 1745 and was a self devoted leader that help the United States get to where it is today. He served a very important role in the Founding Fathers establishment as well as bringing overall greatness to the country. He devoted himself to the American Revolution as well as becoming the first Chief Justice of the United States. Serving in the Continental Congress, and becoming president of the congress gave him great power and confidence within himself.
As I have asserted, coaching is far more than winning or losing. A coach is an essential cog in shaping qualities such as sportsmanship, competitiveness, self discipline, and work ethic. A quality coach can build a player up while a bad coach can tear them down. My goal as a coach was to always leave the player striving to be the best they could be. A good coach
His resume consists of 10 national March Madness championships, which includes seven consecutive championships, four perfect seasons, one losing season and set the all-time record for 88 consecutive victories, all while coaching for the UCLA Bruins (Wooden 2009). Wooden took what he learned from his family, coaches and himself and constructed the Pyramid of Success that he used and implemented throughout his years at UCLA. Wooden constructed the pyramid with 15 personal qualities — each represented as a specific block — he concluded were necessary for achieving success, both as a leader and as a member of a fully functioning organization (Wooden
Flaherty, J. (2011). Coaching: Evoking excellence in others (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Taylor & Francis.
Growing up I was extremely blessed having an incredible coach at every level of sport I participated in. From those experiences I know how much a coach can make a difference in your life. For that reason my dream job is coaching college basketball at any division. It does not matter to me what level, because kids at the D-3 level need just as much guidance and help as student athletes at the D-1 level. During my coaching career I hope to blend two leadership styles in particular together in order to make my athletes better men, but also to keep the game they love fun to play. I feel by taking the Charismatic Leadership style’s enthusiasm and loyalty and mixing it with a Transformational Leaders innovation and emphasis on change, I can be an extremely effective and power leader for my student athletes.
He became the first ever basketball coach, he is known as the father of basketball, even though his record as a coach at the University of Kansas was a mediocre fifty five wins and sixty losses. There are many sports to coach, so choosing the right sport to coach is the first test for any coach. Naturally, one would want to coach a sport that you know the most about. For example, if an athlete decided he wanted to get into coaching he would most likely choose to coach the sport he had once played.
“People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. One may have learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.” As a child he always looked at being able to play or coach a sport at the professional level. For the reason of me just loving the game of Basketball. Also i know it will make an impact on lives because people look up to you and the money in make will give back to communities and change lives around you. The career of a Professional Coach is a challenging and fun career,because of the level of competition and it’s a dream job. The research will describe the career of
As Shannon indicates athletes are slowly taking in that role of building those key characteristics. For instance the role of being a leader and owning up to their responsibilities.