We are a student consultancy that treats growth as a mechanism, not a slogan.

The argument, one rung at a time

1. What is GSCG for?Two things at once. Develop the student, and deliver quality products to the sports industry.

   These are co equal. Neither serves the other. The North Star is developmental, but you cannot be only developmental: you need a real thing you are trying to get good at, because the pursuit of that thing is what makes the growth real. The two prongs hold each other up.

2. Why developmental?Because a high performing student is a student who is growing at a high level.

   The purpose of being a student is to grow, to learn, and to build capabilities. At a Jesuit university the capabilities that matter most are internal. So if we want students to perform, what we actually want is for them to grow, and we should look at how growth happens.

3. So how does growth happen?You train three things: mind, body and craft.

   A business school trains craft well. What it does not do directly is train the mind and the body. That training happens, but indirectly, outsourced, accidental, left to chance outside the school’s doors. Craft is how you operate with your internal states in an external way, so training mind and body is training the substrate craft runs on.

4. What is underneath mind and body?Emotions, thoughts and sensations. The levers sit on top of them.

   These are what we use to operate in any environment. Through our senses we execute our craft. You train the mind and body by becoming aware of emotions, thoughts and sensations, and learning to work with them while you perform.

5. Then what is growth, exactly?New associations between emotions, thoughts and sensations that you can reference or build on later.

   The mechanism is transfer. You build prior experience and confidence in one context, and when the context changes you can count the reps you already put in. Mindfulness is what turns experience into growth: without attention the experience passes through you and leaves nothing behind. With attention it becomes a rep that counts.

The whole architecture, written out