IT DEPENDS with Jamie Taylor (1 of 2)
Nov 5, 2026 · 25 min · 10 segments
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Jamie TaylorGuestBilly AllenHostJohn MayerHost
Nov 5, 2026 · 25 min · 10 segments
Jamie TaylorGuestBilly AllenHostJohn MayerHost
Well, the book was written a fair while ago now, so I reckon we probably finished the actual writing of the book going on three and a half, four years ago.
And I suppose what we saw as the value of the book or the intention for writing the book was that it would be my opinion and opinion of my co-author, Dave Collins, that there are lots of different swirling views in relation to skill acquisition and that we're often conflating, say, big picture meta theory.
So what's our view of human functioning? What's our view of the world? And then what it means for practice.
And what our contribution was trying to do was say, look, there are lots and lots of different ways of looking at this.
And that it would be my opinion, I wouldn't want to speak for Dave, but I'm sure he'd say the same, that we don't necessarily want to say here is the singular theory that will explain everything all the time and that there is one theory that all coaches should use.
And what we try to do is lay that out from what we hope was a relatively balanced account of what we characterise as three approaches.
I... i'm not convinced that we actually said this in the book we're not convinced that they are actually three different perspectives or approaches at all but that's the way that they're often characterized in the sport literature and we use that to really build a base of an argument to say look there's lots of different ways of looking at this and that we need to really be probably think a little bit more differently if we're going to squeeze everything we want to out of our coaching process
You have a quote at the beginning of the book, everything works somewhere, but nothing works everywhere.
Well, the book was written a fair while ago now, so I reckon we probably finished the actual writing of the book going on three and a half, four years ago.
And I suppose what we saw as the value of the book or the intention for writing the book was that it would be my opinion and opinion of my co-author, Dave Collins, that there are lots of different swirling views in relation to skill acquisition and that we're often conflating, say, big picture meta theory.
So what's our view of human functioning? What's our view of the world? And then what it means for practice.
And what our contribution was trying to do was say, look, there are lots and lots of different ways of looking at this.
And that it would be my opinion, I wouldn't want to speak for Dave, but I'm sure he'd say the same, that we don't necessarily want to say here is the singular theory that will explain everything all the time and that there is one theory that all coaches should use.
And what we try to do is lay that out from what we hope was a relatively balanced account of what we characterise as three approaches.
I... i'm not convinced that we actually said this in the book we're not convinced that they are actually three different perspectives or approaches at all but that's the way that they're often characterized in the sport literature and we use that to really build a base of an argument to say look there's lots of different ways of looking at this and that we need to really be probably think a little bit more differently if we're going to squeeze everything we want to out of our coaching process
You have a quote at the beginning of the book, everything works somewhere, but nothing works everywhere.
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