Courting Success By Muffet Mcgraw: Summary

The book I read for sports Psychology was Courting Success by Muffet McGraw. Her book gives great insight on what it takes to build a successful team, and the best coaching mechanisms to aid in the process of building a great team. She also tells her faults as a coach, and how she learned to handle every team she coached over the years, with the principals she talked about in each chapter of her book. The advice she gives can not only be applied to a team setting but to life as well. Each chapter focuses on one trait a team should have to achieve success, but these traits can be used by the everyday person to improve their life, and achieve their own personal goals. As an athlete I could relate to this book because it was as if Muffet McGraw …show more content…
The most informative part of chapter seven Handling failure was that we learn mostly from on our failures and from our failures comes success. It was in this chapter where all the previous chapters came in to play. McGraw referred to a year where she had a terrible season and how she felt it damaged her as a coach but at the same time built her up because she was able to take accountability for her mistakes, she learned to respect her players more and disciplined herself on how to improve her team the following year. It’s very important the way we handle failure. She describes you either succumb to it or you suck it up and handle it with maturity. In the following chapter handling success Muffet talks about a lot of stories related to her failures and successes in different seasons and how her team handled it. This chapter can be interpreted as her saying it takes a lot of failures to be successful but once you achieve success you shouldn’t just be satisfied with it. When achieving success you should continue to find ways to capitalize off it and stay focused on creating new goals for yourself, but in a coach’s case for your