00:00I really liked Mike Vrabel's answer yesterday when he was talking about motivating players and players not needing to be motivated.
00:06And I brought up this new age player and maybe some do.
00:09Yes. And this one stood out to me.
00:11It came from a listener, Tom, who was listening to our Vrabel interview.
00:15And he said, just a comment on Coach Vrabel's comments this morning about motivation.
00:19Speaking as a West Point graduate, this hit home for me.
00:22People are already motivated, and the role of a leader is to seek ways for them to align their motivations with those of others and with what the team needs them to do.
00:33Susan Fowler captured this in her book, Why Motivating People Doesn't Work and What Does.
00:38Fowler argues that leaders still depend on traditional carrot and stick techniques because they haven't understood their alternatives and don't know what skills are necessary to apply to new science of motivation.
00:49Her optimal motivation process shows leaders how to move people away from dependence on external rewards and help them discover how their jobs can meet the deeper psychological needs for choice, connection, and competence.
01:04That science tells us results in meaningful and sustainable motivation.
01:08Vrabel is doing all of this.
01:11I think he nailed it.
01:12I think Coach Vrabel has, again, I'll use this phrase, secret sauce when it comes to today's player, whether it's because he's on the younger side of coaches in the league or he's been there before.
01:26He just knows how to deal with what players are going through.
01:31He talked about how Steph Diggs likes to laugh at himself and how he loves that out of him.
01:36He talks about how Drake May is able to keep such a level head with the MVP chants constantly happening.
01:44He knows how to work with these men day in, day out, on the field, off the field, in the locker room, or in everyday life.
01:52That's the difference that this team has.
01:54And motivation wasn't the word, I guess, I should have used because this is a perfect example of how leaders don't need to motivate.
02:01They need to look at what these players are motivated for and bring them together.
02:05Now, Wiggy is a carrot and stick guy because he's constantly calling me soft.
02:09So he's like an old school discipline manager, like the carrot and the stick.
02:15And so, but Mike Vrabel seems to have figured it out here.
02:19And it's worked out well for him because I was going to lean towards, well, you know, they respect him because he's a former player and maybe that doesn't.
02:26That's part of it.
02:26But it's not working with the Jets and Aaron Glenn is a former.
02:30So we've seen former players that have coached, Mayo is a former player last year.
02:35So it's, I think it's, I think it's the respect that it's Pot being a former player, but it's also the fact that he's had success before.
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