A1W Virtues.

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Virtues. Part 1.

Life is complex, it includes learning, my experience as an AFL Coach is as much about me, as it is about the participant. I assess the participant and that guides me-- what I'm looking for are participants with virtues of learning.
What is a virtue of learning? Perception (All sensory perception is a miraculously complex process*), knowledge from interpretation and detection of sensory stimuli, adaptation, accommodation, assimilation are virtues but more importantly small characteristics I'm looking for in an individual participant to lead a team and for others to model themselves on.
I prepared for my first assignment and when the day came: the mother's watched on. Five minutes later and they're gone leaving me in charge. I'm sure they had a perception of what their child was in for, with some trust in the club that coaches are vetted, skilled and appropriate, that trust is never undermined. One takes a professional approach while making it fast, fresh and fun.
There comes a time when a season ends. In preparation for the next year, the club awards a cap to the participant the coach selects to be captain. The idea being the participant takes on the role, wears the cap, steps-up representing the club. There's a history with the cap. It was used by footballers to "mark" the spot a rival took a grab. A mark in Australian Rules Football is when a participant catches the ball from a kick over 15 metres. Andy was number 1. He wasn't the most gifted or the tallest or fastest but he was a bit of everything. I selected Andy to be the captain for next year's season.
Before you know it, we're doing it again. My greatest moment: Andy decided he was going to umpire that year. I caught up with him later in the season and he told me he had a greater insight to the game, a deeper respect for umpires and was fitter. I feel Andy has the right virtues to tackle anything.

*Child Development: A First Course. Kathy Sylva & Ingrid Lunt.

Perception.

Scott Anderson.

Virtues. Part 2-- Accomodation.

Virtues of Learning: Accommodation.
Virtuo accommodatas: mental structures undergo reorganisation so that new information structures can be integrated into the cognitive system.

Physically we are better at accommodation than mentally. If you learn Australian Rules Football from a young age you will rotate through all positions on the ground. You will play using your non-preferred side of your body to showcase your ability to breakdown muscle reaction and mental capacity to reorganise in the mind new schema-- physically what you are doing.
This starts from the first lesson in Modified Rules: Fold your arms, now fold your arms the opposite way. Right under left, left over right-- feels good. Right over left, left under right-- doesn't feel good.
This usually gets a giggle, participants are coached to make it feel right either way, and it takes many other instructions and play around breaking down schema.
Participants can be influenced by what they see; what they see is glamorous and grand. The reality is a lot simpler. I was given feedback and I passed this on to the team. The umpire would like you to know you are bouncing the ball too much. Run, the umpire said, then bounce. The 'bounce' is not an easy skill to learn. I know someone better than myself and I would use this participants knowledge and experience to instruct others. I used this participant to teach individuals. This participant had great balance on either side of the body. The participant was skilled in accommodation, not that he was accomplished in the bounce, the participant stepped outside being a student and became the teacher.

Virtues. Part 3-- Adaptation.

Virtues of Learning: Adaptation.
Virtuo adaptadatas:
Adaptation is the ability to adjust to new information and experiences. Learning is essentially adapting to our constantly changing environment. Through adaptation, we are able to adopt new behaviors that allow us to cope with change.
I think we unconsciously adapt to situations and rely on our experience to help, we as humans still have traits after millions of years of development: the hiccup. This simple adaptation allowed the first humans to breath air; that hiccups originate from our amphibian ancestors.
Is it a long bow to draw? It's not an outlandish statement, however many people don't believe in our evolution, and theres nothing wrong with that, but what does it say about adaptation. If you are not open to adaptation you may not adapt to new information.
Human organism can adapt because it is part of the Great Design, in fact most organisms adapt-- adapt or die.

Adaptation.

Hiccups.

Virtues of Learning: part 4, assimilation.
"when you encounter something new, you process and make sense of it".

Cultural assimilation.
Assimilation in Australia is something different not something new.
When I took my first breath in Australia it was fresh, sharp, and clean to what I was used too. Australians are different because of a Colonial heritage, evidence is in the way information is accepted, you see Australians live by a Credo, Such is Life, and by nature act against the Tall Poppy.
Tall poppy syndrome is a process of social levelling, due to lack of respect for wealth, power and pretensions, whereby successful people are criticised. Intense scrutiny and criticism of such a person is termed as "Cutting down the tall poppy".
Australians love an underdog. Australians pride themselves on uprising in the face of adversity and working together toward a common goal. Commonly portrayed about in the Australian culture is the idea of the 'underdog'-- the little guy against the big, powerful rule-makers.
Australia is a continent of contrasts, contradictions and colossal inefficient systems. It's un-Australian to not assimilate to *The* Australian Culture. It is a land of confusion.
Australia has no Manufacturing Industry. The industry collapsed under "pay and conditions"-- high wages and the 36 hour working week. Australians live off the wealth in the land, super-pit holes in the ground: seen from space.

Assimilation in psychology How do children assimilate?
"The process is somewhat subjective because we tend to modify experiences and information slightly to fit in with our preexisting beliefs."

Assimilation is part of the psychology involved, it's labelling in diagnosis. It's also with us forever, because our experience and information changes. At a young age it develops as much as that person is capable of. Understanding of abstract ideas and logic start to develop in a natural organic chemistry-- Life.

Assimilation.