100 Ways To Motivate Yourself, Third Edition

14. Bounce your thoughts

If you’ve ever coached or worked with kids who play basketball, you know that most of them have a tendency to dribble with only one hand—the one attached to their dominant arm. When you notice a child doing this, you might call him aside and say, “Billy, you’re dribbling with just the one hand every time, and the defender can easily defend you when you do that. Your options are cut off. You need to dribble with your other hand, too, so that he never knows which way you’re going to go.”

At this point Billy might say, “I can’t.” And you smile and say, “What do you mean you can’t?”

And Billy then shows you that when he dribbles with his subdominant (weaker) hand and arm, the ball is all over the place. So, in his mind, he ...