{"id":21185,"date":"2023-11-13T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/?post_type=article&p=21185"},"modified":"2025-12-15T05:11:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:11:05","slug":"you-cant-catch-retain-and-process-everything-you-have-to-go-back-and-relearn","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/you-cant-catch-retain-and-process-everything-you-have-to-go-back-and-relearn\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can\u2019t Catch, Retain and Process Everything \u2013 you Have to Go Back and Relearn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Leaders Performance Advisor Bobby Scales explains why he always returns to his old notes in his \u2018Book of Intelligent Stuff\u2019.<\/p>\n \n \n \n

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By Bobby L Scales II<\/h6>\n
One of my favorite questions when I talk to people is: what are you reading right now?<\/h6>\n

A while ago, I asked a friend, and his reply fascinated me. \u201cI\u2019m not reading anything new,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m going back through books I\u2019ve read and I\u2019m really trying to pick up on the things I missed before\u201d.<\/p>\n

The idea resonated with me. \u201cGo back through the books, podcasts or articles you really felt you learnt from and relearn,\u201d he continued. We all have a mountain of books or e-books that we dive into with both feet with the intention of learning or educating ourselves in one form or fashion. Even the most intelligent among us can\u2019t catch, retain and process everything.<\/p>\n

He is definitely onto something. I have found that when you return to a book, there will be things you want to brush up on but there is also going to be things you missed first time around because you were so engrossed in other ways. Much of this is due to the fact that whether it be six weeks or six months on, certainly there is some personal growth and development. With that in mind, things you either didn\u2019t catch or glossed over will have a different meaning once you go back to it.<\/p>\n

We should all make the time.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Book of Intelligent Stuff\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is not just books or articles. With the forthcoming Leaders Sport Performance Summit in London in mind, you may have notes of previous conferences or conversations that hold even greater relevance today. You could probably even pick up the phone and reacquaint yourself with people you connected with at those conferences.<\/p>\n

My first Leaders Sport Performance Summit was at London\u2019s Emirates Stadium in November 2015. I appeared onstage during my tenure as Director of Player Development at the Los Angeles Angels alongside Stuart Worden, the Principal of the renowned BRIT School. We discussed talent development at length and I stayed on for both days and took notes from a number of other sessions.<\/p>\n

I revisited those notes recently and it is funny to reflect on some of the things you write down. Events will happen in life and it will amplify certain elements that I won\u2019t say didn\u2019t apply back in 2015, but they can have a boatload more meaning eight years on.<\/p>\n

There is research that people retain more learning when we write things down with pen and paper. I keep all my notes in one book I call \u2018The Book of Intelligent Stuff\u2019. It sounds like a silly title but there are thoughts, quotes and notes from the different insights that fascinated me. I used to be an eBook reader but there is something different about having a hard copy book with a pen and highlighter at hand. Like many of you, I am sure, I\u2019ll write notes in the margin or highlight certain passages. My shelves are full of annotated books.<\/p>\n

As for my Book of Intelligent Stuff, I had it in hand at Soldier Field in Chicago in 2017 when I returned to the Sport Performance Summit, this time as a delegate. I flicked through my notes recently \u2013 I remember taking them sat next to Leaders\u2019 Matthew Stone \u2013 and there were a couple of concepts that really hit home harder now than they did then just because of the circumstances in my life. I had left professional baseball for a position in private industry. While I was fairly certain what I was doing at the time wasn\u2019t going to be it. I was at a crossroads professionally. In Chicago, Stuart Lancaster spoke about his own personal crossroads after having been sacked as Head Coach of the England men\u2019s rugby union team. Stuart\u2019s presentation that day and the notes I took from it are still staples of my decision making tree to this day. \u00a0As we all know, when you work in professional athletics more often than not you are going to be sacked at some point\u2026 I was again. The first place I looked the last time was \u2018The Book Of Intelligent Stuff-Chicago 2017\u2019.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t agree? Do more digging<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s another thing about conferences. You will look around the auditorium and see people with their heads down taking notes. You are looking at them and thinking \u2018should I be writing this down?\u2019 Certain things just resonate with people at certain times.<\/p>\n

In my Book of Intelligent Stuff, I\u2019ve got three quote sections where I\u2019ll write down things I hear on Instagram or Facebook, for example. If I\u2019m listening to a podcast and a guests says something resonant, I\u2019ll make a note on my desk or my phone and later add it to my book.<\/p>\n

I will also note down things I disagree with. You owe it to yourself to learn why you disagree with a point and investigate it further. If you\u2019re reading an article or a book and they say X, Y or Z, why do they feel that way? You take the emotion out of it and learn why a person feels that way or why they think this isn\u2019t actually as important as we once thought it was. There could be some academic research behind it or some hard numbers. It is important to investigate why that person came to that conclusion and maybe decide that you need to change your position. We owe it to ourselves to think critically and challenge what we think and what others present. It can only make you sharper<\/p>\n

All of that is part of the life-long learning process we should all be on.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/div>\n \n \n \n <\/div>\n

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