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## Segment 8 — execution

## Article 77 — a077

# Alan McCall

**Alan McCall** is a sports-performance practitioner and researcher, known for work on **high-performance environments** and coaching structures, and a co-author of the **11-elite-coach study** on high-stakes decision-making referenced in this source. The study spanned coaches across the U.S., Europe, Australia, and New Zealand and examined their cognitive, emotional, and social processes under pressure.

**Role in this source:** co-author of the decision-making thread.

**Attributed contributions in this vault:**
- Co-authored [[framework-tough-calls]]
- Established [[concept-manufactured-instinct]] and its contrarian thesis [[contrarian-instinct-is-preparation]]
- Co-source of [[quote-instinct-is-preparation]] and [[quote-what-matters-right-now]]

*Provenance note:* open-web traces for the four co-authors ([[entity-adrian-wolfberg]], [[entity-johann-bilsborough]], [[entity-ricard-pruna]]) point to multiple individuals with overlapping names; the attribution and framing are plausible but not linked to a single, widely cited public paper.