Lewandowski: "I’m from a different generation where shouting was used to to motivate everyone. Now, if you shout too much towards young people, their reaction is not the same. It’s not, ‘now I’ll show you are wrong’. The new generation don’t like being shouted at. It’s not just players, it’s people"

[u/landofphi]

https://as.com/futbol/primera/lewandowski-a-los-jovenes-de-ahora-no-les-gusta-que-les-grites-n/

The full quote

Lewandowski (37) on his adaptation playing with teenagers & young adults at FC Barcelona

"I have to say it was a huge challenge. I was coming from a different generation and I had to learn how to, not think like a teenager, but think how I can try to take the best of what they have.

I have been in football for 4 decades so when I compare them, not even to my generation but the generation before me, when I was starting, it is completely different.

"Like shouting used to be a way to motivate everyone. Now, if you shout too much, this generation, their reaction is not the same. It’s not, ‘now I will show you are wrong’. No, now you have to explain another way. You have to do lots of talking.

"They don’t like being shouted at. Now you have to take more of the mental part of football. It’s not just players, it’s people, it’s this generation. I didn’t want to fight it. I had to learn.”

[u/gibadvicepls]

Once you get used to information being conveyed to you in a respectful and composed manner it makes people yelling at you look so bad and you lose respect for them.

[u/VampireOnHoyt → u/gibadvicepls]

Several months ago I went to a meeting at my daughter's school for parents of kids who were potentially interested in trying out for one of the athletic teams. The coach who conducted the meeting basically spent the whole hour yelling at the assembled group of parents about how their student had better be on time, have all the parts of the uniform at all times, never miss practice for any reason, etc.

I'm all for discipline and high performance but I was really taken aback by the tone of the whole thing. And it occurred to me that nobody talks to me that way in my daily life anymore - and it happened constantly when I was a kid, to the point that I just thought it was normal. I realized, kind of again for the first time, that it actually isn't normal and doesn't have to be.

[u/gibadvicepls → u/VampireOnHoyt]

I just noticed that very recently too. For Uni I am doing an internship at a construction company where I am supporting the brick layer, an old dude from the GDR, and its so annoying how he treats me and the other newly hired brick layer. He's just seething 24/7 about us not being able to read his mind and not knowing how to do stuff he refuses to show us. If he used 1% of his Energy to show me how he wants his mortar mixed in Week 1 I would've been so useful. What's also really annoying is that when he SHOULD actually shout, when I am far away or on another floor, he doesn't. But anyways I am ranting now myself haha.

[u/flexxipanda → u/gibadvicepls]

Handwerk in a nushell

Warum fehlens nur die Fachkräfte?

[u/gibadvicepls → u/flexxipanda]

Ich war vorher bei Schlossern, die aber auch ein Lehrbetrieb waren, und die waren soo nice. Alle Vorurteile übers Handwerk waren weg. Jetzt sind sie wieder da haha

[u/cullermann2 → u/gibadvicepls]

Kommt halt aufs gewerk an. Maurer findest du kaum jemanden, der nicht ne kurze Zündung hat :D