How To Motivate Athletes
I read in The Times today, that quite a few of our successful athletes in Barcelona have not been given funds to help their training from Lottery sources. One, Andy Turner won gold and two others, Mark Lewis Francis and Christian Malcolm won silver in the two sprints.
I always remember when I was at ICI, learning about motivators and demotivators on a course. I seem to remember that money wasn’t a particularly good motivator, but lack of money was a strong demotivator. On the other hand status was a strong motivator. So perhaps to succeed in a major championship is a very strong motivator and nothing is going to stop you doing it, even if you’re a bit short of the readies. Remember though, that as team members, they would have all the support they need in terms of physios and coaches. Is giving people the right support another motivator?Andthey also have the status of being in the team.
So perhaps someone has been working on the status thing and being more careful with the money. Has it got results? After all we’re ahead of the Germans in the medal table. And that can’t be bad!
Perhaps we should apply this set of rules to other areas as well, like business and politics. We tend to pay people a lot of money at the top and they don’t perform.
Chelsea’s Gluten-Free Wedding Cake
Is Chelsea Clinton a coeliac? I doubt it, as she sounds like a faddy foodist or lifestyle-coeliac, who has gone gluten-free for effect! I’m sure if she was really a coeliac, she would have told the media. But she is having a gluten-free wedding cake!
It was funny that the bit about this pointless wedding on Radio 5, was just before Luke Harvey did his piece about the racing at Goodwood today. He talked about Hayley Turner , who had a ride on Barshiba in the Nassau Stakes, a Group One race at the highest level.
She actually is a coeliac and admits it in interviews and articles for the papers.
We need more open coeliacs like her and less like Chelsea Clinton.
Cooking Rice Korean Style
I cooked one of my chili con carnes for myself ,my son and one of his friends today. As the friend is Korean, he cooked the rice and it was delicious. He cooked it from scratch and interestingly, the method he used was very similar to the one Waitrose put on their packet of organic long grain rice. He did wash the rice more thoroughly in a sieve than I would and I think he used more rice and a bit more water. But who cares? It worked!
So next time you want to cook rice, have a go and cook it properly, rather than using a microwave.
As the rice was so good, next time he comes, I’ll video a master in action! Would this be a first of a Korean cooking rice on an AGA?
Whilst on the subject of chili con carne, check out Wikipedia. There are some interesting and controversial ideas there. To me chili always has kidney beans, but that is not allowed by some. There is this statement.
Chili Appreciation Society International specified in 1999 that, among other things, cooks are forbidden to include beans, marinate any meats, or discharge firearms in the preparation of chili for official competition.
I’m certainly with them on firearms.
I also found that the chili was a good mouth freshener in the same way as the Waitrose Tiffin
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