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I was impressed by Jürgen’s practical approach. Rather than demanding the perfect player, he was willing to find creative solutions to maximise each player’s strengths and minimise their weaknesses. He often talked of his preference for players with one or two ‘extreme characteristics’ – game-changers. If and when those game-changers had weaknesses

Very young people often have their goals set for them, or at least have a limited menu to choose from, and pursuing them with passion and resilience is the main challenge.

There’s a second plotline here: the well-intentioned and disastrous shift toward overprotecting children and restricting their autonomy in the real world. Children need a great deal of free play to thrive. It’s an imperative that’s evident across all mammal species. The small-scale challenges and setbacks that happen during play are like an inocula

play is so crucial to the development of key cognitive skills it may even play a role in a species’ survival.

The self-help industry convinces us that only a well set aim, mission or goal — and a path to it with visible progress — can make us happy. This can be particularly appealing to natural high-performers. However, this is not what we observe with the careless, playful explorers that are young children! They don’t need future targets or a sense of ach