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Jo Clubb
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Ten Tips to ‘Show Your Work’ in Sports Science
This post discusses the book 'Show Your Work' and the 10 ways to share your creativity and get discovered in sports science.
Jo Clubb
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Public Speaking Secrets from TED Talks
I discuss the nine TED Talks secrets to help you become a better speaker, along with an example TED Talk video for each to illustrate.
Jo Clubb
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Seeking Insights: Seeing What Others Don't in Sports
This post explores what Gary Klein's book Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights means for sports scientists.
Jo Clubb
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Embracing Rethinking in Sports Science
Adam Grant's book, Think Again, delves into rethinking and is important for sports science to consider how they think.
Jo Clubb
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Influencing Risk: From Military to Sports Injuries
The book "Risk: A User's Guide" highlights that we cannot eliminate risk but must focus our energies on boosting our “Risk Immune System”.
Jo Clubb
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Nine Public Speaking Secrets from TED Talks
In this book summary video, I discuss the 9 public speaking secrets from the book, Talk like TED, & add an example TED talk for each.
Jo Clubb
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Book Insights: Top Tips for Making and Breaking Habits from James Clear
In this book review of James Clear's Atomic Habits, I discuss 5 insights. This book provides practical tips for building and breaking habits
Jo Clubb
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Looking for Sports Science Insights?
I am building a YouTube channel for sports science and medicine practitioners to help distil key insights from research and applied practice
Jo Clubb
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How a Rejected Paper Won a Nobel Prize
George Akerlof's paper "The Market for ‘Lemons’" was initially rejected by 3 journals. It became seminal work that led to a Nobel Prize.
Jo Clubb
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Mini: Bottlenecks
Bottlenecks are inevitable. Every system will have a point that limits its efficiency. Where is the bottleneck in your screening process?
Jo Clubb
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Mini: Signalling
Signalling is a powerful tool in our campaign to gain athlete buy-in. Humans’ actions provide an influential form of feedback.
Jo Clubb
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Mini: Your Maker Mix
The Maker Mix (Designing Your Worklife) uses a sound desk analogy to enable you to reflect on your life payments: money, impact, expression.
Jo Clubb
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Learning from Science Gone Astray
In "Why Trust Science?" Oreskes highlights five required themes to produce reliable knowledge. Each are discussed in relation to performance
Jo Clubb
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The Dark Side of Expertise: Cognitive Entrenchment
As you develop greater expertise, you have the potential to become entrenched in your thinking. How do you avoid cognitive entrenchment?
Jo Clubb
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Perspectives on Perspectives: Using the Zoom Button
When I watch the incredible Cosmic Eye video (below), I think of a particularly desirable skillset of a support staff member: the ability...
Jo Clubb
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When Interventions Do More Harm Than Good
“Naïve interventionism” describes intervening, based on an urge to help, without weighing up the potential harm of such an intervention.
Jo Clubb
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The End of Average… in Sports Science
This post discusses the book 'The End of Average' and what the talking points mean in the context of sports science. When was the last...
Jo Clubb
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Starting with Why in Sports Science
Last summer I was excited to attend the Seattle Sounders Sports Science weekend. I was honoured to be asked to present at the event and...
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