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Realising the Value of Debate

Informed Practitioner in Sport

This phenomenon occurs where you find a high concentration of bright inquisitive people who are open and enthusiastic about sharing their ideas and collaborating to create something new and interesting; this acts as a beacon that draws other bright inquisitive minds, in turn generating renewed energy and fueling further innovation.

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Ingredients for Progress: Heretics and Dissent

Informed Practitioner in Sport

Engaging with different arguments and encountering interpretations that deviate from what have understood to be true is illuminating: it lends a different perspective and prompts us to consider explanations what have not previously considered. If the received wisdom is indeed valid then it should be able to withstand critique.

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Achieving Engagement and Alignment

Informed Practitioner in Sport

As the march to high performance systems continues we have yet to resolve how to unite all parties to the cause. Proponents of sports science and medicine often rail at how coaches and athletes seem reticent to adopt new findings and assimilate evidence-based practice, despite the merits presented in the research literature.