When you join a new team, ask the veterans for tips. People usually help the rookie who asks.

CREATIVITY

WHAT THIS MEANS

Experienced people are mostly waiting to be asked. Nobody volunteers what they know, partly because it feels like lecturing and partly because they have forgotten it is unusual. A direct question from the newest person flatters them and costs you nothing beyond the brief discomfort of admitting you do not know.

This week, ask whoever has been there longest for one specific thing: how they warm up, what the coach actually wants, what they wish they had known at your stage. Listen, then use it where they can see. The second ask is much easier than the first.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which experienced person would you ask for advice if you dared?

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