well empathy and sports can make teams
and players win will make others lose
hello my name is Nolan Fisher and today
I’m presenting about empathy in sports
now empathy in sports can affect the
team’s overall performance and you may
ask how does it happen but first let me
give you a quick story of mine so when I
was younger I lived in Royal Oak and I
went to this Jamboree Royal Oak Soccer
travel then was a big fundraiser that
all sorts of food stands all these
activities and games and every year
they’d have this juggling competition so
I was about I don’t know seven eight or
ten we I went for three years and and I
would go with my friends we do this
juggling competition and I’d always lose
now I was super frustrated I never
enjoyed it yet because my friends asked
me I was one of them so let’s get back
to uh last year I worked at the seek a
soccer camp for little kids here on
campus and on the first day we had a
juggling game and there was this one kid
that couldn’t get it so I walked over
talked to him gave him some pointers he
still couldn’t get it okay
second day same kind of thing third day
same thing and the fourth day he finally
got it and the expression on his face
was priceless and I definitely
understand where he’s coming from
because I was in his shoes years before
so empathy is quite simple at its roots
we use empathy well enough and the
chances are winning are higher so
there’s a formula for it I have it right
here so if we plug in the right things
we’re going to win the game and that’s
obviously a joke because that doesn’t
where it doesn’t work out mm-hmm but
empathy can’t affect sports so coaching
it right well of course do you need to
know when to push their athletes and
when not to if a player is busting his
tail and not delivering results what do
you do you yell at them you support them
I don’t know a coach needs to balance
the negative and positive remarks coming
out of his mouth because if a coach is
super positive and he’s happy for his
players the player will be more happy
and want to play better now in addition
to coaches players use empathy a team
captain will rally the team up and he
may go up to a player before
or the game and get ready or bring
everyone together for a team chant and
that gets the morale of the team up now
if the player if the player and the team
captain plays well the team usually
follows also the opposition knows how to
use empathy I’m not saying that we do so
if we know how to use empathy well
enough we can understand how the
opposition operates for example if
another player on the other team is
dragging the morale down we can exploit
that like if he’s making silly fouls or
doing things he shouldn’t then we could
get points or we can get an advantage so
if we do that we can have an advantage
we never knew we had also fans exhibit
signs of empathy they understand the
sport they definitely know what it takes
to succeed in the sports they’re
supporting and in some cases they’ll put
more sweat and tears than the players
themselves now if you don’t believe me
if we just look on like any match or
game on TV no like the camera will
scroll over to the fan section you’ll
see everyone with their face paint
you’ll see everyone of sweating jumping
screaming chanting they definitely know
what it takes and if if their team loses
they definitely know how much it hurts
them now epithelioid of a strong leader
for me a team leader should address
their team appropriately and for me
players have not they have called me out
on silly things that they should not
have and then just drag them or all the
team down now empathy can fix that if a
team is empathy they’ll be better now I
have a quick video to show you guys here
and it highlights how empathy of a team
so this is a Barcelona Barcelona Academy
team they are one of the top clubs in
the world if you guys are familiar with
and this is their younger team they just
won a World Championship in Japan it’s
one of Japan’s top to use and it shows
the Barcelona kids actually empathizing
and going over to players and making
sure they’re okay
now these kids 12 a sudden happen a from
a very young age
you’ll know how to
learn and develop others so when we
watch this obviously yeah now because
they’re so empathetic they can really
relate with each other like we’re gonna
go through that because this that
they’ll develop sense of leadership from
a year at very young age
now that’s very important so the next
thing is what’s what’s empathy in sports
today what’s the main example of it so
recently LeBron James reached out to
Ronda Rousey after her big loss in a
tweet he said they build you a size they
can put you on the highest mountain just
to tear you down that’s coming from
somebody who has experienced it and
that’s exactly what she’s going through
because I was that athlete now when she
lost she was very devastated she never
wanted to fight again and LeBron has
definitely lost in big championships he
knows how it feels and even though
LeBrons contribution was small it was
part of a deciding factor to her to
fight once again empathy cares less
about the person it doesn’t care about
how many goals her scores and individual
has empathy cares about what the person
can do now as student-athletes we can
use empathy and more than just the field
or court we use it to understand others
learn about different situations and
rise when everything is difficult now if
we use empathy from a very young age we
can develop and you’re great human
beings and learn the best we can thank
you [Applause]