Coach John Wooden was a very successful hardworking coach at UCLA. He was nicknamed the “Wizard of Westwood”. Coach Wooden’s success was not just represented by the ten NCAA national championships he won, but as the type of person he was. Coach John Wooden said, “ Success is a peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction knowing you made the effort to do your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.” He was not satisfied with just his definition of success; he needed something more detailed and specific. That is why John Wooden went on to create The Pyramid of Success. There are five different levels to The Pyramid of Success and each building block is important because the following block builds of the previous …show more content…
Coach Wooden talked about how during one basketball game his team scored over one hundred points, but not one of his players scored over twenty individual points. This game is a great example that increased the cooperation among his players because in order to win the game everyone was working together, and everyone was getting a chance to play. The team and Coach Wooden increased cooperation in the team by not just relying on the top player to score the most points and win the game, but by playing as a team everyone was a …show more content…
It is extremely important that this player remembered this piece of advice given to him because that means he learned. Coach believed that you could acquire knowledge from the activity that is going on around us if we have alertness. Alertness is that asset that keeps you awake and perceptive and increases skill. Many of Coach Wooden’s former players talked about how not only did he make them practice and become great players, but he made them become great individuals. By doing this he was making sure that the team would be great because everything was done in the context of the team. No one including Coach Wooden was put above the team. The most important thing the players discussed was how Coach John Wooden not only taught them about basketball, but he taught them about life. Those lessons and principles he taught them they will use for the rest of their