Editing What You Don’t Know

Multi-tasking doesn’t work. You learn by giving one thing your focus.

Over the past few weeks I listened to Jimmy give numerous Zoom presentations to MLB teams, colleges, and academies. Reboot recently launched V1 of our 3D Pitching Report and we were showing potential customers the ins and outs.

The value I provided on these calls was minimal. However, I joined each one for an obvious reason: to better understand Reboot Motion’s first product (pretty basic goal).

While I picked up on some things here and there, I was not retaining the information as well as I wanted.

I felt unproductive just listening, so I kept trying to do something else during these meetings rather than give the material my full attention. I would return an email, edit our website, or find a different small task so I could feel like I was moving the company forward.

I wasn’t. Rather than doing one thing well- learning, I was doing two things poorly. Multi-tasking doesn’t work.

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While we were running these sessions, we realized we could record them. Rather than scheduling a formal meeting for every potential customer, we could direct them to our website and allow them to view tutorials when they want, how they want. Less work for us, more convenient for them.

So that is what we did. We asked permission from Dan Cabuling at @ID3Training, Erik Wagle at @DubBaseball, and Tim Campos at the Albuquerque Baseball Academy and they were kind enough to let us record.

After the session, we had to go through each video, edit, find the best clips, and post them.

I took the first stab at this.

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Looking back, I learned a couple things I expected:

1. How to splice a long video into clips…although I suck at merging two clips together

2. How to edit our website and embed videos

However, I was amazed at the knowledge I picked up on pitching, biomechanics, and coaching. I did not think of the time I spent:

1. Re-watching videos over and over

2. Listening to specific questions that indicate confusion

3. Noticing insights that resonate with coaches

4. Determining what made sense to me (a novice in sports biomechanics)

5. Judging what was too “in the weeds” and not actionable enough

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I’ve heard many offer the insight that creating content is a great way to crystallize the ideas in your mind. What I discovered was that editing a co-workers’ content is a perfect way to learn.

I’ll leave you with the clip below where Jimmy and Dan Cabuling discuss key takeaways for the pitcher being discussed. The degree to which I understand this below clip today compared to two weeks ago is insane. And I’m happy to test that claim if anyone wants an explanation.