Podcasts about tennis the classic guide

In this PT. 2 episode, Josh Jung, professional baseball player for the Texas Rangers, joins Ryan to talk about the mental battles, leadership, and personal growth that come with playing baseball at the highest level. Josh opens up about the pressure of expectations, the dangers of comparison, and the mindset needed to thrive through the ups and downs of a grueling MLB season.Josh Jung is a professional baseball player for the Texas Rangers as a third baseman. A former star for the Texas Tech Red Raiders, he was selected by the Rangers in the first round of the 2019 MLB Draft.Follow Josh on Instagram and X @Josh6Jung⚾️ Grab tickets to watch Josh and the Texas Rangers here

Rohini Pandhi is a product leader at Mercury, and previously spent over seven years at Square/Block leading product work on Square payments, invoicing, and the Bitkey hardware Bitcoin wallet. She's also the co-founder of the startup bootcamp Transparent Collective and is an active angel investor. In our conversation, we discuss:• Key indicators that it's time to hire PMs• How to build your early PM team• Why founders should initially take on the product manager role themselves• How to attract top PM talent• What she's learned about going multi-product• A case for investing in quality• More—Skip the Mercury Personal waitlist: https://mercurytechnologies.typeform.com/lenny—Brought to you by:• Cloudinary—The foundational technology for all images and video on the internet• OneSchema—Import CSV data 10x faster• Airtable ProductCentral—Launch to new heights with a unified system for product development—Find the transcript at: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-build-your-product-team-from-scratch-rohini-pandhi—Where to find Rohini Pandhi:• X: https://x.com/rohinip• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohinipandhi—Where to find Lenny:• Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com• X: https://twitter.com/lennysan• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/—In this episode, we cover:(00:00) Rohini's background(05:00) The role of product managers at Mercury(09:51) Key indicators that it's time to hire PMs(13:18) Building the product team at Mercury(19:53) Why you should avoid hiring PMs too early(22:26) The different flavors of product management(26:15) How to attract top talent(35:59) Advocating for quality in product development(44:10) Going multi-product(46:37) Organizational structure for multi-product success(50:57) Organizational culture for multi-product success(52:07) Customer obsession and product development(57:36) More lessons from going multi-product(01:05:57) Transparent Collective: supporting underrepresented founders(01:09:54) Lightning round—Referenced:• Immad Akhund on X: https://x.com/immad• Mercury: https://mercury.com• Square: https://squareup.com• Pioneers, Settlers, Town Planners [Wardley]: https://orghacking.com/pioneers-settlers-town-planners-wardley-9dcd3709cde7• Jason Zhang on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-zhang-5645a860• What is ‘Dogfooding'?: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/business/dogfooding.html• Mercury Bill Pay: https://mercury.com/bill-pay• Zip: https://zip.co• Jira: https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira• The art and science of pricing | Madhavan Ramanujam (Monetizing Innovation, Simon-Kucher): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-art-and-science-of-pricing-madhavan• Gokul Rajaram on designing your product development process, when and how to hire your first PM, a playbook for hiring leaders, getting ahead in you career, how to get started angel investing, more: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/gokul-rajaram-on-designing-your-product• Gokul Rajaram on X: https://x.com/gokulr• Transparent Collective: https://www.transparentcollective.com• 16 Reading Tips from Naval Ravikant: https://alexandbooks.com/archive/16-reading-tips-from-naval-ravikant• Shrinking on AppleTV+: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/shrinking• Bad Sisters on AppleTV+: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/bad-sisters• Slow Horses on AppleTV+: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/slow-horses• Severance on AppleTV+: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/severance• Presumed Innocent on AppleTV+: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/presumed-innocent• Waymo: https://waymo.com• Adam Robinson on X: https://x.com/IAmAdamRobinson• Cyan Banister—From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More): https://tim.blog/2024/11/28/cyan-banister• Bobby Matson on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobbymatson• Jobs at Mercury: https://mercury.com/jobs—Recommended books:• Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays: https://www.amazon.com/Vectors-Aphorisms-Ten-Second-James-Richardson/dp/0967266890• The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance: https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Game-Tennis-Classic-Performance/dp/0679778314• Pachinko: https://www.amazon.com/Pachinko-National-Book-Award-Finalist/dp/1455563927• Cutting for Stone: https://www.amazon.com/Cutting-Stone-Abraham-Verghese/dp/0375714367• The Song of Achilles: https://www.amazon.com/Song-Achilles-Novel-Madeline-Miller/dp/0062060627—Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com.—Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed. Get full access to Lenny's Newsletter at www.lennysnewsletter.com/subscribe

Episode 276 of the InGoal Radio Podcast, presented by The Hockey Shop Source for Sports, features a can't miss interview with Jake Allen of the New Jersey Devils.In the feature interview presented by NHL Sense Arena, Allen shares advice and anecdotes on everything from switching teams and goalie coaches, to the evolution of the game and his game, as well as the equipment he wears now -- and how it's changed over the years. Allen is as thoughtful and insightful as they come and this conversation is loaded with things that will help young goalies (and goalie parents) get better in their approach to learning and managing a position that is constantly evolving and, perhaps more important, how to improve the way they read, process and anticipate shooters and the play in front of them.In our Parents Segment, presented by the Stop It Goaltending U app, we wrap up a three-part series about the value and downside of keeping statistics for your young goalie with various options that will help add context and value to the way you keep and assess them.And in our weekly gear segment, we go to The Hockey Shop Source for Sports for a look into a couple of different lines and options from Brian's Custom Sports for younger goalies.In this episode we referred to:Brian Daccord in Instagram talking about categorizing goals in a game and how to interpret those.Stop It Goaltending's Gameday appThe Book The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak PerformanceAmazon link in CanadaAmazon Link USA

In Episode 154, we are recasting our episode with Dan Abrahams, Sports Psychologist, best-selling author of four books, Founder of the Dan Abrahams Soccer Academy and The Sport Psych Show Podcast, and former pro golfer, who talks with Phil about his sports psychology work, his books, and his podcast, the concepts of “Teamship” and motivational climate, extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation, pre-failing, self-leadership, his personal why, how we can coach difficult players by asking great questions, and whether we can recreate the pressure of a penalty kick outside of a match. Specifically, Dan discusses: ·      His story, his work with Premier League and other football/soccer teams, his books, his podcast, how he developed his passion for soccer and leadership, and how he got to where he is today (3:31) ·      What excites him about the increase of awareness of the importance of mindset and sports psychology in sports over the past several years (13:53) ·      In which sport the mental game is more important: soccer or golf (20:04) ·      The concept of “Teamship” and why it is important (26:49) ·      The Motivational Climate of a Team, what it is, and what it has to do with a team's culture and burnout (30:13) ·      Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic Motivation, get-to vs. have-to mentality, and how they are related to short- and long-term performance (43:07) ·      The concept of pre-failing (49:01) ·      Why self-leadership and a leader's mindset are important (53:13) ·      His personal why and how it is playing out in his life (59:05) ·      “Not” coaching difficult players, but teaching them to coach themselves through questions (1:01:23) ·      How personality styles are related to the sports psychology work (1:05:45) ·      Whether it is possible to recreate the pressure of a penalty kick in a training environment (1:09:31) ·      How he uses lessons learned in soccer in his family relationships (1:14:16) ·      His recommendation, which is very personal to him (1:15:44) Resources and Links from this Episode Dan's Website The Sport Psych Show Podcast Uncut Video of the Episode HSEL Facebook Group Coaching the Bigger Game information Warrior Way information Phil Darke's email address Soccer Tough: Simple Football Psychology Techniques to Improve Your Game, by Dan Abrahams Soccer Tough 2: Advanced Psychology Techniques for Footballers, by Dan Abrahams Soccer Brain: The 4C Coaching Model for Developing World Class Player Mindsets and a Winning Football Team, by Dan Abrahams Golf Tough: Practice, Prepare, Perform, and Progress, by Dan Abrahams The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance, by W. Timothy Gallwey

In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Joanna is bringing you a special parent series, where she interviews parents whose children have overcome a variety of mental health challenges. To kick off the series, Joanna sits down with "Dean," whose tumultuous journey began with his son's frequent and severe migraines, which caused him to miss a lot of school. From there, his son's quality of life started rapidly going downhill with marijuana usage and an excessive video game habit. By the time he was a freshman in college, everything came to a breaking point. "Dean" shares what that pivotal moment looked like for their family, and how an unexpected recommendation by a therapist was the beginning of transformation.Disclaimer: Please note that this special series by parents is the parent perspective sharing mental health and substance abuse crisis with their adolescent or young adult children. These episodes may content topics around suicide, overdosing, and other traumatic experiences. Listener discretion is advised! Dean's ResourcesAn Unchanged Mind: The Problem of Immaturity in Adolescence (book)The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance (book)Cornerstones of Maine (Transitional Living Program for Young Adults)Connect with Joanna Lilley  Therapeutic Consulting AssociationLilley Consulting WebsiteLilley Consulting on Facebook Lilley Consulting on YouTubeEmail joanna@lilleyconsulting.com#therapeuticconsulting #lilleyconsulting #successful #youngadults #therapeuticprograms #neurodiversity #neurodiverse #therapy #mentalhealth #podcast #podcastcommunity #studentmentalhealth #thejourney #successissubjective #theunpavedroad #wildernesstherapy 

Some people seem to do it all… Today's guest certainly does it all, and she does it beautifully with purpose and intention.  Asia Thayer is a farm owner and manager, a rider, instructor, competitor, National Examiner for United States Pony Club (USPC), a Certified Professional Salesperson, a clinician… what DOESN'T she do?! But wait, we don't do anything without effort, intention, some tears, and learning to PAUSE. Let's hear from Asia how every achievement brings opportunity, and connections are everything. She is a true THRIVING Equine Professional! Connect with Asia on LinkedIn, and check out www.ponyclub.org! Click here for Asia's book recommendation, The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance I am so excited to help YOU thrive! So, get the ponies fed, fill those water buckets, grab your journal and let's grow! I'm going to help YOU Live Inspired, Fulfilled and Empowered!    Cheers! Jodi    Want to connect with Jodi?! www.JodiSpeaksLIFE.com www.LinkedIn.com/in/JodiLynchFindley Jodi@JodiSpeaksLIFE.com  

In today's conversation, we are joined by Mitchell Greene, a licensed clinical and sport psychologist, and owner of Greenepsych Clinical & Sport Psychology, a boutique private practice located in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Dr. Greene works primarily with athletes pursuing high performance goals, or coaches and athletic departments looking to educate their student-athletes on mental health and/or performance enhancement strategies.Mitchell joined us today to talk about his book, ‘Courage over Confidence: Managing Mind Chatter and Winning the Mental Game.'Mind chatter is when we have conversations with ourselves that are full of doubt, second-guessing, and negative thinking. It typically shows up when the uncertainty and the stakes feel enormous. For athletes, it can occur in a big tournament. The first step in recovering from mind chatter is to expect it to show up. Understanding the context in which it shows up is important because that means you're aware it's completely normal and you can control it.Get ready to explore the concept of "chatter" and how to handle it, as Mitchell shares insights from their book and provides practical tips for athletes, coaches, and anyone facing high-stakes situations. [05.40] Mind chatter – Mind chatter is the negative, doubtful thinking or conversations we have with ourselves. [13.14] Fear - Fear may have been the way you presented yourself to the world when you were a child, but it doesn't have to define who you are now.[20.02] Falling behind – Mitchell explains why the obsession with doing everything for the fear of falling behind is unhealthy. [25.22] Social media – The impact social media has on athletes, in Mitchell's opinion. [34.33] Thoughts – We are constantly having positive and negative thoughts about us. But we have to remember that we are so much bigger than those thoughts.[40.01] Monkey mind – We talk about the importance of learning to deal with the feeling of lacking control of one's thoughts.[44.04] Results and action – Mitchell explains the difference between a results-oriented goal and an action goal. [48.50] Courage over confidence - One's ability to exhibit courage may be compromised when confronted with feelings of doubt and fear, which create favorable conditions for the manifestation of acts of bravery.ResourcesConnect with MitchellLinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/mitchell-greene-ph-d-8571aa14/ Instagram - instagram.com/greenepsych/ Twitter - twitter.com/sportpsych Website - greenepsych.com/about/ Book by Mitchell GreeneCourage over Confidence: Managing Mind Chatter and Winning the Mental Gameamazon.com/Courage-over-Confidence-Managing-Chatter/dp/B0BYC2NQVT Book by W. Timothy GallweyThe Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performanceamazon.com/Inner-Game-Tennis-Classic-Performance/dp/0679778314/ Book by Phil KnightShoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nikeamazon.com/Shoe-Dog-Memoir-Creator-Nike/dp/1501135910/ 

Brought to you by Eppo—Run reliable, impactful experiments | Vanta—Automate compliance. Simplify security | Ezra—The leading full-body cancer screening company—Lane Shackleton is CPO of Coda, where he's been leading the product and design team for over eight years. Lane started his career as an Alaskan climbing guide and then as a manual reviewer of AdWords ads before becoming a product specialist at Google and later a Group PM at YouTube. He also writes a weekly newsletter with insights and rituals for PMs, product teams, and startups. In today's conversation, we discuss:• Principles that set great PMs apart• Rituals of great product teams• The fine line between OKRs and strategy, and why it matters• “Two-way write-up”• The story of how skippable YouTube ads were born and lessons learned• How to gauge personal career growth• “Tim Ferriss Day” and its impact on Coda's history• How Lane bootstrapped his way to CPO from the bottom of the tech ladder—Find the transcript and references at: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/what-sets-great-teams-apart-lane-shackleton-cpo-of-coda/ —Where to find Lane Shackleton:• X: https://twitter.com/lshackleton• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laneshackleton• Substack: https://lane.substack.com/—Where to find Lenny:• Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com• X: https://twitter.com/lennysan• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/—In this episode, we cover:(00:00) Lane's background(04:03) Working as a guide in Alaska(07:32) Parallels between guiding and building software(09:12) Why Lane started studying and writing about product teams(12:49) How Lane came up with the career ladder and guiding principles(14:10) The five levels Coda's career ladder(16:30) Principles of great product managers(21:06) The beginner's-mind ritual at Coda(24:05) Two rituals: “cathedrals not bricks” and “proactive not reactive”(27:46) How to develop your own guiding principles(31:17) Learning from your “oh s**t” moments(36:03) Rituals from great product teams: HubSpot's FlashTags(42:15) Rituals from great product teams: Coda's Catalyst(47:01) Implementing rituals from other companies(49:48) How to navigate changing vs. sticking with current rituals(53:02) “Tag up” and why one-on-one meetings are harmful (55:27) Lane's handbook on strategy and rituals(57:10) How skippable ads came about on YouTube   (1:01:46) Lane's path to CPO(1:07:02) Advice for aspiring PMs(1:10:53) Tim Ferriss Day at Coda(1:13:24) Using two-way write-ups (1:19:30) The fine line between OKRs and strategy, and why it matters(1:21:41) Lightning round—Referenced:• Endurance: https://www.amazon.com/Endurance-Shackletons-Incredible-Alfred-Lansing/dp/0465062881• Bret Victor's talk “Inventing on Principle”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGqwXt90ZqA• Jeremy Britton on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremybritton/• Comedian on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/60024976• The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership: https://www.amazon.com/Score-Takes-Care-Itself-Philosophy/dp/1591843472• The Creative Act: A Way of Being: https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Act-Way-Being/dp/0593652886• AlphaZero: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaZero• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_de_Saint-Exup%C3%A9ry• Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling: https://www.amazon.com/Storyworthy-Engage-Persuade-through-Storytelling/dp/1608685489• The Moth: https://themoth.org/events• Seth Godin's website: https://www.sethgodin.com/• The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph: https://www.amazon.com/Obstacle-Way-Timeless-Turning-Triumph/dp/1591846358• Tony Fadell's TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uOMectkCCs• FlashTags: A Simple Hack for Conveying Context Without Confusion: https://www.onstartups.com/flashtags-a-simple-hack-for-conveying-context-without-confusion• How Coda builds product: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-coda-builds-product• 100-dollar voting ritual: https://coda.io/@lshackleton/100-dollar-voting-exercise• Pixar's Brain Trust: https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Brain_Trust• Lane's product handbook: coda.io/producthandbook• The rituals of great teams | Shishir Mehrotra of Coda, YouTube, Microsoft: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/the-rituals-of-great-teams-shishir-mehrotra-coda-youtube-microsoft/• Principle #4: Learn by making, not talking: https://lane.substack.com/p/principle-4-learn-by-making-not-talking• Phil Farhi on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philfarhi/• How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit): https://www.lennyspodcast.com/how-to-ask-the-right-questions-project-confidence-and-win-over-skeptics-paige-costello-asana-intercom-intuit/• Chip Conley's website: https://chipconley.com/• Jeff Bezos Banned PowerPoint in Meetings. His Replacement Is Brilliant: https://www.inc.com/carmine-gallo/jeff-bezos-bans-powerpoint-in-meetings-his-replacement-is-brilliant.html• Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Working-Backwards-Insights-Stories-Secrets/dp/1250267595• Dory and Pulse: https://coda.io/@codatemplates/dory-and-pulse• Turning the Flywheel: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great: https://www.amazon.com/Turning-Flywheel-Monograph-Accompany-Great/dp/0062933795/• Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion: https://www.amazon.com/Waking-Up-Spirituality-Without-Religion/dp/1451636024• The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance: https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Game-Tennis-Classic-Performance/dp/0679778314• Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters: https://www.amazon.com/Good-Strategy-Bad-Difference-Matters/dp/0307886239• The Last Dance on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/80203144• Full Swing on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81483353• Stephen Curry: Underrated on AppleTV+: https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/stephen-curry-underrated/umc.cmc.23v0wxaiwz60bjy1w4vg7npun• Arrested Development on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/70140358• Shishir's interview question clip on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lennyrachitsky/video/7160779872296652078• The Ultimate Reference Check Template: https://coda.io/@startup-hiring/reference-checks-template• SwingVision: https://swing.tennis/• Waking Up app: https://www.wakingup.com/—Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com.—Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed. Get full access to Lenny's Newsletter at www.lennysnewsletter.com/subscribe

The Negative Impacts of Youth Sports and What to Do About It with Scott Lancaster    Through this conversation, Mathew and Scott hope to help parents and coaches develop a renewed sense of how they might act when it comes to children in youth sports. Mathew, a former athlete and current youth sports coach for his own children, is intimately familiar with the negative impacts that bad coaching can have on children and is actively working to develop his athletes in this new, more holistic way Scott is championing. It's imperative that coaches understand who they are coaching, what they can and cannot do, and keep expectations age-appropriate despite the desire to advance children quickly through the ranks. Scott and Mathew talk about the role that bad coaching and parenting in youth sports have had on the current mental health crisis, the "inner child wounds" many kids develop through sports, and the ways in which negative and positive childhood sports experiences follow people through their entire lives and impact their self-image into adulthood. Many people say youth sports were great for them or their children, but Scott ponders the counterfactual that we can never know how great they could have been if they had not played the game. Scott goes on to give specific examples of ways children are being damaged by youth sports and possible solutions to the problems. From small changes, like swapping "Did you win?" for "How did you play?", to larger structural changes like reframing the way we think about the purpose of youth sports. There is a close connection between how we coach youth sports and how we parent children, and both have to shift towards developing more resilient kids by teaching them how to deal with losing more than striving to win and talking to them about what they are feeling to help them internalize what they are doing. Scott Lancaster is one of three co-founders of Whole Child Sports. WCS "offers parents and coaches guidance, tips, and tools to help raise and develop happier, healthier, more well-rounded athletes who will sustain a lifetime passion for active play and fitness." As a former athlete and current parent, youth sports and youth athletes have been a passion of Scott's for more than 20 years. He spent six years with US Soccer, working directly with Mia Hamm and other U.S. Women's National Team players to increase representation and participation in the sport. He also spent 12 years with the NLF, developing youth programming. Throughout his career, Scott has worked with many of the Greats in professional sports to make significant and important changes in the philosophy of sports, the youth-to-professional pipeline, and the way sports operate in order to focus on improving youth development. "Youth sports, as good as they've been for some, have been terrifying for others…" In this episode, you'll hear: Practical ways parents can shift to start raising healthier children through athletics Tips for coaches to step into this new system of developing youth athletes What it means that "kids should not play adult games" and ideas to restructure youth sports What do action sports athletes get that traditional athletes miss out on? How Scott deals with disciplining athletes who misbehave  Follow the podcast:  Listen on Apple Podcasts (link: https://apple.co/3s1YH7h)  Listen on iHeart (link: https://ihr.fm/3MEY7FM)  Listen on Spotify (Link: https://spoti.fi/3yMmQCE)    Connect with the guest: Bio LinkedIn   Resources: The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by Timothy Gallwey Whole Child Sports Fair Play: Making Organized Sports a Great Experience for Your Kids by Scott Lancaster and Bill Walsh Athletic Fitness for Kids by Scott Lancaster and Radu Teodorescu Fair Play: Pro Football's Radical Program that's Successfully ChangingYouth Sports by Scott Lancaster Additional books by Scott Lancaster   Connect with Mathew Blades:  Twitter - twitter.com/MathewBlades Instagram - instagram.com/MathewBladesmedia/  Facebook - facebook.com/mathewbladesmedia/  Website - learnfrompeoplewholivedit.com/   Additional Credits: LFPWLI is managed by Sam Robertson

We all have the same 24 hours in a day, and productive dentists use their time differently than other practice owners. But, you don't have to go back and get your MBA to find out how to run your practice better. You only need to listen to this new ongoing subseries of Everyday Practices Podcast, in which Co-hosts Dr. Chad Johnson and Regan Robertson will discuss lessons they've learned from some of the world's leading business books, and how you can apply them to your practice. This week, Dr. Chad and Regan discuss The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by W. Timothy Gallwey

 When was the last time you watched people at a sporting event, ceremony, or concert—having the experience of a lifetime, yet mainly holding their phones or cameras up to film it all? It's as if capturing pictures and videos is more valuable or important than the experience itself, and so they live everything through their camera screens. While certain moments in our lives prompt us to reach for our phones or cameras to capture that unfolding event and immortalize it into a visual memory, doing so comes with a cost. It takes us out of the actual moments—out of fully living the experience. In this episode, you'll hear about the value of fully immersing yourself in the present. I share what I learned from reading The Inner Game of Tennis and from playing a detective video game. I also reflect on returning to the curiosities of our eight-year-old selves and how our lives might be enriched more by being fully in the moment. “Be here, now. Put your phone down and take all your surroundings in through every one of your senses. How richer will your life be if you can resist the screen and be fully in the moment?” - Kathy Sullivan This week on Kathy Sullivan Explores: ●     Living life through screens●     Why performing theater companies ask the audience not to film or record shows●     Going back to our eight-year-old selves●     The challenge to explore with a sense of play●     The sense of safety and security in reminiscing bygone days●     How I learned to see without judgment by playing a video game Resources Mentioned: ●     Book: The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by W. Timothy Gallwey Our Favorite Quotes: ●     “Explore with a sense of play—of freedom. Be your eight-year-old self again, shut off the self-talk, and just be. Just do.” - Kathy Sullivan●     “Be here, now—not in the past, not in the future, but genuinely interested in and absorbing where you are now, who you're with, and taking it all in without an opinion.” - Kathy Sullivan Spaceship Not Required I'm Kathy Sullivan, the only person to have walked in space and gone to the deepest point in the ocean. I'm an explorer, and that doesn't always have to involve going to some remote or exotic place. It simply requires a commitment to put curiosity into action. In this podcast, you can explore, reflecting on lessons learned from life so far and from my brilliant and ever-inquisitive guests. We explore together in this very moment from right where you are--spaceship not required. Welcome to Kathy Sullivan Explores. Visit my website at kathysullivanexplores.com to sign up for seven astronaut tips to improving your life on earth and be the first to discover future episodes and learn about more exciting adventures ahead! Don't forget to leave a rating and review wherever you get your podcasts! Spotify I Stitcher I Apple Podcasts I iHeart Radio I TuneIn I Google I Amazon Music

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Chetan Venkatesh, CEO of Macrometa, a developer tool which has raised $38 Million in funding, about why the next generation of global connectivity is going to be so much more than just a ‘better cloud,' and how Macrometa's disaggregated network is able to process data faster, better, and more securely. Through the Global Data Network platform, their solution can return data based services in a fraction of a second, giving clients a critical advantage over the competition. We also speak about Macrometa's organic development of a category-creating solution, the current weaknesses in our global cloud development system they hope to address, why more data brings more potential but also more exposure to potential risk, and why Chetan still believes that for a tech startup, nothing still beats the Bay Area. Topics Discussed: Macrometa's astonishing speed, delivering data-based services in the blink of an eye Current weaknesses and limitations of the existing ‘cloud based' global network Why the pressure on data infrastructure is only set to increase as every more people go online to work, shop and socialize Why whatever the haters say, Chetan still sees more potential in the Bay Area than any other startup space How Macrometa organically developed their category-creating solution, and why Chetan believes most life-disrupting innovations are completely unexpected Why Chetan is excited for Macrometa's growth in the years to come, and hopes demand for their solution stays high   Favorite book:  The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance

Modern life is busy.  We can feel like our purpose is to make it through the endless to-do lists before us.  But that's not what we were created for and it's not who we were meant to be.  Sadly, it leads us to live out the Thoreau quote about living out lives of quiet desperation. But it doesn't have to be that way!  You can get in touch with your true self, your true spirit.  This episode with special guest, Timmy Gallagher, will help you move in the direction of your true self. Connect with Timmy:LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/timothygallagherevolute/Website: positiveintelligence.com/Website: evoluteperformance.com/Mentioned in the episode: Build Powerful Habits with PQ® Training: positiveintelligence.com/program/The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth: goodreads.com/book/show/347852.The_Road_Less_TraveledThe Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance: goodreads.com/book/show/905.The_Inner_Game_of_Tennis

Salutation, SR Tribe! Welcome, and thank you for coming back for another hearty serving of The Sophisticatedly Ratchet Podcast, giving the real in a world of fake. We were back at it with the October SR current events report, and we have the pleasure of being moderated by the Clarity Queen- Lil Moe! In today's episode, we cover a wide variety of news topics ranging from: Emotional outbursts from Married at First Sight men, The Bin administration's push for Weed Pardons; NYC Mayor Adam's State of Emergency declaration, “Nicki Minaj: The Black Barbie Femmecee & Hip Hop Feminisms”, course at the University of California, Berkeley in 2023, Ye fashion show “White Lives Matter” shirts, and video leak of Draymond Green and Jordan Poole fight. Questions that need answers. Did you know there is a site to see which politicians are in support of weed legalization (https://www.cannabisvoter.info/)? Ladies, how would you react to a man who cried during sex? Did you know that the influx of migrants could cost New York city $1 billion in the current fiscal year alone? Did you know that Nikki Minaj is the first and only female rapper to win the Best Female Hip-Hop Artist award seven years in a row? Pop in and let's chop it up, as we present the October SR report. Chakra Alignment  The color associated with the third of the seven chakras, the Manipura Chakra, is yellow. This color symbolizes energy, intellect, and also the connection a person has with the Fire and Sun. The color yellow also represents youth, new beginnings, birth, and re-birth. Yellow connects us with knowledge and intellect. When it's blocked: You can suffer from low self-esteem, have difficulty making decisions, and may have anger or control issues. Shake Word of the Week Pro·pi·tious (adjective) giving or indicating a good chance of success; favorable. Sophisticated/Ratchet Picks:  Flash The Philosopher: The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by Timothy Gallwey (Amazon Link) https://amzn.to/3T1Jjnm Lil Moe: 3-IN-1 Electric Jade Roller 3D Roller Facial Roller & Face Massager, Rose Quartz (Amazon Link) https://amzn.to/3rLlR1B   For more information about the show, click here: https://linktr.ee/SoRatchetPodcast Don't forget to like, subscribe, follow, comment & share us with a friend.    Catch us LIVE on YouTube every FIRST WEDNESDAY of the month at 9 pm EST, we can't wait to connect with you… Please remember to follow us on the following social media platforms: Youtube - SoRatchet Podcast  IG - @SoRatchetPodcast  TikTok- @SoRatchetPodcast Twitter - @SoRatchetPod Let us know your thoughts on the episode,do you agree or disagree, and tell us how you really feel - Please email us at SoRatchetPodcast@gmail.com. Thanks for joining TRIBE!!!!

The Medical Mindset thinks that, as an expert, you have to know and excel in everything. Doctors, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals must break out of this trap to live their best life. In this episode, Dr. Brett Levine tells us how to overcome the medical mindset to live a life free from stress, burnout, and depression.According to Dr. Levine, you can break out of the medical mindset by being vulnerable and open to others about the struggles and things that you go through. Be a part of a community, be authentic, and always remember that you are more than a doctor or a pharmacist. There are no limits to what you can become! Key Points from This EpisodeHow Dr. Levine got into the medical field.Dr. Levine shares the crisis he went through in life that slowly got him trapped in the medical mindset.The medical mindset thinks you need to know everything because you are an expert.The medical mindset is like a trap that medical professionals fall into.You don't have to learn everything.Switching out of the medical mindset is a slow, transformational change.Dr. Levine shares his initial steps to break out of the medical mindset.Joining a mastermind will help you become authentic and open to others.Dr. Levine's advice for somebody who is trying to break free from the medical mindset but is in the analysis paralysis. His goal in real estate investing: long-term multifamily buy and hold.Links Mentioned:Boomm Mindset website25% discount for the BOOMM 1.0 CourseSample videoBoomm Mindset on InstagramBoomm Mindset on LinkedInBoomm YouTube channelRich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! by Robert T. KiyosakiWho Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork by Dan SullivanMindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol DweckThe Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by W. Timothy GallweyPassive Income MD podcastCashflow Tactics podcastTribe of Millionaires podcastMilliThe main sponsor of our podcast is Rx Real Estate Investment. They make everything we do possible, and our conversations and interviews would not be available without their support. If you want to diversify your retirement portfolio and get into commercial real estate investing, working with Rx Real Estate Investment may be a great match for you. Check out the website at www.rxrei.com.

This week we've got Dr Brett Levine. Brett has thrived as an ear, nose, and throat Surgeon for the last 27 years. He is a partner of a surgery group outside of Los Angeles, a real estate investor and owns multiple businesses. We talk about how he broke free from a limiting mindset by joining a mastermind group and learning that money makes you money. We dive into the options to start to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Get comfortable with little steps and then move forward. Listen to find out different things you can do to do this.Connect with Brian on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram or FacebookLinks:www.boommindset.comBook Links:The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by  W. Timothy Gallwey The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life - Before 8AM by Hal ElrodRich Dad Poor Dad: 20th Anniversary Edition: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! By Robert KiyosakiThe Success Principles(TM) - 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Jack Canfield

Nothing will change if you go to the gym and sit next to the weight bench without lifting a single weight. Your biceps will not grow stronger if you do not lift the weight. Also, they do not become stronger the first time they lift the weight. Over time, the experience of doing so makes them stronger and becomes increasingly simple. Mindst is also a muscle that we must strengthen to maintain our mental fitness. My guest today is Heather Hakes. She is a speaker, a mindset coach, and the author of Take the Leap. Her podcast, Mind Over Matter, has tens of thousands of listeners. Heather focuses on assisting others in overcoming obstacles by waking their limitless capacity to create their dream life. Throughout today's conversation, she demonstrates how to use our mental strength to propel us forward with insightful explanations. Self-Doubt – Heather shares her perspective on self-doubt and her experiences about being affected by it, and how she overcame it. Moreover, she expresses her take on the significance of mindset.What I Want – We address the importance of understanding what we want, envisioning it, and the value of being attentive and intentional.Everything Must be Hard - We feel that we must work diligently to grow or hustle and grind to get money. On the other hand, Heather provides an insightful explanation for why she believes that not everything has to be complicated.It is Now – Often, we believe we will be happy if we are trapped. We analyze the influence of our inner game in determining our success and the role of being present in the moment in determining our happiness.Intuitive Nudge – Heather talks about intuition, its characteristics, and its effect on us.Even Better – When things do not happen as we want, we feel devasted. However, everything happens in the best way possible. We discuss how things end up in a way that we did not expect but maybe in a better way. Thought Cycle - Heather defines the thought cycle by stating that thoughts generate feelings that influence our actions and outcomes. Self-Compassion – We examine the value of self-compassion and how it directly impacts one's success.Resources:Connect with Heather:LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/heather-hakes-64ba0914/Website: heatherhakes.comPodcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mind-over-matter-podcast/id1329255871YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCSxYkLWm4pKcoQp20LHWvMQInstagram: instagram.com/heather.hakes/?hl=en  Mentioned in the Episode:The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance: goodreads.com/book/show/905.The_Inner_Game_of_Tennis?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=xkwHMp7cM5&rank=1Redeem Your Ground – Doug Scott: bobbikahler.com/newpaths/episode032/

In the book The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance, author Timothy Gallwey describes a one-on-one lesson he had once with an adult tennis student. The student was aware of a problem with his serve, as several other teachers had pointed it out to him, and he could describe it in great detail, and what he needed to do to fix it. So Timothy decided to try a different approach than the previous coaches that the student had worked with.He observed the man serve a few times, then, instead of trying to find a new, better way to explain the problem that the student already knew he had, he simply instructed him to practice his serve in front of a large window that functioned as a mirror. Almost instantly, the student recognized the problem in his own serve—he saw it with his own eyes for the first time—and made the necessary corrections to relax his arm.The man thanked Timothy profusely and told him that he had taught him more than all the other teachers he had had in the past. But Timothy said, “What did I actually teach you?” The man was quiet for a few seconds as he thought and he said, “Well I guess I don't really know! But you helped me so much. In 15 minutes, you made more of an impact than the hours of private lessons I've had.”Timothy reflected on this experience later and he wrote in the book, “He had learned, but had he been ‘taught'?" He went on to explain: "I had learned and he had learned, but there was no one there to take credit. There was only the glimmer of a realization that we were both participating in a wonderful process of natural learning.”Now, when I told this story to Steve on our morning walk the next day, he argued that some level of teaching still took place here. That is true—Timothy had the foresight to know what the student needed, to see one step beyond where he was and help guide him to where he wanted to be. In this way, Timothy facilitated the student's learning.And I think that's where the distinction lies: Facilitating vs. Teaching.That's what we're going to talk about today.For show notes, click here.Resources Mentioned*Disclosure: I get commissions for purchases made through links in this post.The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance (Timothy Gallwey)“Piano Class for the Real World”: Exploring Experiential Learning with a Collaborative Inquiry Group in a Creative Musicianship Lab (Ashley Danyew)“Bridging the gap: Informal learning practices as a pedagogy of integration” (Heloisa Feichas)

In Episode 71, Dan Abrahams, Sports Psychologist, best-selling author of four books, Founder of the Dan Abrahams Soccer Academy and The Sport Psych Show Podcast, and former pro golfer, talks with Phil about his sports psychology work, his books, and his podcast, the concepts of “Teamship” and motivational climate, extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation, pre-failing, self-leadership, his personal why, how we can coach difficult players by asking great questions, and whether we can recreate the pressure of a penalty kick outside of a match. Specifically, Dan discusses: His story, his work with Premier League and other football/soccer teams, his books, his podcast, how he developed his passion for soccer and leadership, and how he got to where he is today (1:31) What excites him about the increase of awareness of the importance of mindset and sports psychology in sports over the past several years (11:53) In which sport the mental game is more important: soccer or golf (18:04) The concept of “Teamship” and why it is important (24:49) The Motivational Climate of a Team, what it is, and what it has to do with a team's culture and burnout (28:13) Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic Motivation, get-to vs. have-to mentality, and how they are related to short- and long-term performance (41:07) The concept of pre-failing (47:01) Why self-leadership and a leader's mindset are important (51:13) His personal why and how it is playing out in his life (57:05) “Not” coaching difficult players, but teaching them to coach themselves through questions (59:23) How personality styles are related to the sports psychology work (1:03:45) Whether it is possible to recreate the pressure of a penalty kick in a training environment (1:07:31) How he uses lessons learned in soccer in his family relationships (1:12:16) His recommendation, which is very personal to him (1:13:44) Resources and Links from this Episode Dan's Website The Sport Psych Show Podcast Uncut Video of the Episode HSEL Facebook Group Coaching the Bigger Game information Warrior Way information Phil Darke's email address Soccer Tough: Simple Football Psychology Techniques to Improve Your Game, by Dan Abrahams Soccer Tough 2: Advanced Psychology Techniques for Footballers, by Dan Abrahams Soccer Brain: The 4C Coaching Model for Developing World Class Player Mindsets and a Winning Football Team, by Dan Abrahams Golf Tough: Practice, Prepare, Perform, and Progress, by Dan Abrahams The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance, by W. Timothy Gallwey

We will never be the same person again. Every instant, we are either moving forward or backward. My guest today believes that the past exists to teach but not live. Also, he believes that no one should ever feel as though they have no one, and being inspired by that, he works to ensure that no one ever feels alone. He is a United States Navy veteran who served on many deployments to several countries, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, in the early to mid-1990s. Also, he is the host of the "Time to Shine Today" podcast. This podcast provides knowledge nuggets to empower people and teams to level in business and life. Scott Ferguson, a wonderful human being, joins today's episode to guide us to level up our health, wealth, and personal development.Smile – Laughter is the most excellent medicine, and it's free. Scott talks about the importance of smiling and how he incorporates it into all of his activities.Scott's story  - Scott recounts twists and turns he has experienced in his life, mentioning his abandonment, his stay in an orphanage, and the service toward others.Level Up – Scott shares what leveling up means to him and how he came up with that concept.Keys to Leveling up - We talk about some of the key things that lead to Leveling up. Fear- Everybody has their own abbreviation for fear. Scott discusses his opinions on fear, stressing the finite nature of things.Time to Shine Today – We discuss Scott's motivations for launching this podcast and how the name "Time to Shine Today" came to be.Live with Intention- Scott explains what living with intention means and how to embed it into our lives.Message to the Younger self – As a message to his younger self, Scott highlights a piece of mind-blowing advice with all of us. Learn from your past but don't live in your past!ResourcesConnect with Scott:LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ask4ferguson/Twitter: twitter.com/ask4fergusonInstagram: instagram.com/ask4fergusonWebsite: timetoshinetoday.comLinkedIn: linkedin.com/groups/12327475/Instagram: instagram.com/timetoshinetodayFacebook Page: facebook.com/timetoshinetoday/Personal Facebook: facebook.com/ask4ferguson/YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCS481-LOVU1L-JyS2PLvhqwPinterest: pinterest.com/Ask4ferguson/time-to-shine-today-podcast-lets-level-up/Activerain: activerain.com/blogs/ask4fergusonMentioned in the episode:The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance: goodreads.com/book/show/905.The_Inner_Game_of_Tennis?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=aCDx0wn7b4&rank=1You Are a Gift, Choose to Thrive! – TTST Interview with Bobbi Kahler from Unyielded: timetoshinetoday.com/podcast/bobbikahler/Six Seconds Can Change Your Life: 4obbikahler.com/awareness/episode068/

From time to time we are asked for recommendations on books to read or give as a gift. With the holiday season coming up, we thought this would be a good time to put together our Top Ten! Thinking, Fast and Slow - by Daniel Kahneman  https://amzn.to/3EvhnRs  Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds- by David Goggins  https://amzn.to/3lDLcYA   How Bad Do You Want It?: Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle - by Matt Fitzgerald  https://amzn.to/3dvi4y1   Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body - by Daniel Golemanhttps://amzn.to/3rBM184  The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results -by Gary Keller  https://amzn.to/3GhL4Wt   Unbeatable Mind: Forge Resiliency and Mental Toughness to Succeed at an Elite Level - by Mark Divine https://amzn.to/3DtZKzSRelentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable - by Tim S. Grover  https://amzn.to/3xYsRu2  Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance - by Angela Duckworthhttps://amzn.to/3opBtqE  Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - by James Clear  https://amzn.to/3drIeC1  The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance - by W. Timothy Gallweyhttps://amzn.to/3EwX31XFocus Cycle: A guide to controlling your mind and body in Big Moments - by Ben Carnes https://amzn.to/3lH0Br1Learn more or connect with us online at mentaltrainingplan.comEach of these books are available online and most of them are available at your local book store. If you are going to buy them on Amazon, using our links will sometimes result in us receive a small commission from Amazon to help support the show. This is no way effects our list as this is from Amazon, not the authors. 

The difference between a good skier and a great skier is a matter of mastering the methods. One skier can move significantly faster than the other skier, thanks to a slice of improvement. Hence, if you want to be extremely good at cross country skiing, you'll need a lot of practice and skill. However, these techniques have nothing to do with walking on skis. If someone wants to go for a walk in the snow, that person should consider wearing snowshoes instead of skies. Similarly, if we desire to excel in a task, we need to put our effort in the right place in the right way. Otherwise, we can get off track of our goals if we work on the wrong thing or in the wrong way when we practice.Get Feedback - Have someone you trust to observe you in your practice and give you feedback. Learn From Others - Find someone good at what you are trying to learn, and ask them how they get there and learn from them.Be a Student of the Activity – Study the people who master the activity you want to practice and the masterpieces of the action you want to practice.  You have to notice the details of what makes them unique and learn from them. Mentioned in the Episode:The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance: goodreads.com/book/show/905.The_Inner_Game_of_Tennis?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=FqNvhBZvya&rank=1

When Riley Jensen was growing up, sports like tennis, basketball, and football played a huge part in his life. He eventually earned a spot playing football for Utah State University, but after graduating, left sports behind for sales. It wasn't until his wife asked him an important question that his love of sports and psychology came together in a new career at 42 years old. In this episode, I talk with Riley about how he decided to make that change and the difference he feels now between just working a job, and being in a career he loves. We talk about the anxiety generation, the three things that can demotivate someone, and how to turn any loss into a win. This interview is one you don't want to miss, packed full of advice for athletes, parents of athletes, and anyone interested in developing mental toughness. - Links: DN Article about Riley--How a former USU quarterback changed careers at age 40 and is helping athletes cope with anxiety using universal principles - Deseret News The Inner Game of Tennis--The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance: W. Timothy Gallwey, Zach Kleiman, Pete Carroll: 8601417207543: Amazon.com: Books The Obstacle is the Way--The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph: Holiday, Ryan: 8601411257797: Amazon.com: Books Mountain West Elite--Mountain West Elite RJ Performance Group--Riley Jensen Consulting (rjpg.net) Follow me on Instagram! @careerchatpod

The days are long, the sun is shining, the course is in great shape. It's peak golf season, so why am I not at peak performance? An investigation into a flatlining golf game, and what to do about it. This episode is brought to you by: Kindle – How e-books were meant to be e-read Try Audible Premium Plus and Get Up to Two Free Audiobooks Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect by Bob Rotella Zen Golf: Mastering the Mental Game by Joseph Parent The Inner Game of Golf by W. Timothy Gallwey The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by W. Timothy Gallwey *Disclaimer: The above are affiliate links that, when used, may earn Easy Golf a small commission at no additional cost to you*

Golf is like a giant board game played against the pressure that builds with every shot. Isn't that exactly what you'd expect to hear from a podcast called Easy Golf? On this episode, a discussion of the "mental game", meaning golf. Have a listen. This episode is brought to you by: Kindle – How e-books were meant to be e-read Try Audible Premium Plus and Get Up to Two Free Audiobooks Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect by Bob Rotella Zen Golf: Mastering the Mental Game by Joseph Parent The Inner Game of Golf by W. Timothy Gallwey The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by W. Timothy Gallwey *Disclaimer: The above are affiliate links that, when used, may earn Easy Golf a small commission at no additional cost to you*

What happens when you spend three months playing golf in bad weather, alternating between two half sets of golf clubs -- one focused on distance and the other built around the short game -- and track stats for eventual comparison? Tune in and find out on this episode of Easy Golf. This episode is brought to you by: Kindle – How e-books were meant to be e-read Try Audible Premium Plus and Get Up to Two Free Audiobooks Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect by Bob Rotella Zen Golf: Mastering the Mental Game by Joseph Parent The Inner Game of Golf by W. Timothy Gallwey The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by W. Timothy Gallwey *Disclaimer: The above are affiliate links that, when used, may earn Easy Golf a small commission at no additional cost to you*

All this recent experimenting appears to have paid off, and some good golf has been enjoyed as of late. But things can't always be this good, and what goes up must come down. On this episode, let's talk about the good and the bad, and how to enjoy and learn from both. This episode is brought to you by: Kindle – How e-books were meant to be e-read Try Audible Premium Plus and Get Up to Two Free Audiobooks Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect by Bob Rotella Zen Golf: Mastering the Mental Game by Joseph Parent The Inner Game of Golf by W. Timothy Gallwey The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by W. Timothy Gallwey *Disclaimer: The above are affiliate links that, when used, may earn Easy Golf a small commission at no additional cost to you*

Fabian Wesemann, co-founder and Group CFO at Wefox, spoke to Wani Baumgartner, guest co-host and Finance and Life Sciences recruiter and Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast about using technology to bring the insurance industry to the new level of customer-centricity.Here is what they covered in more detail: Fabian's road towards entrepreneurship What led Fabian to co-found a business? How do Fabian and Julian Teicke complement each other? What is Wefox? What is the problem that Wefox is solving? What were your very first steps to get going with Wefox? Who are the target customers? How does Wefox make money? How do they think about unit economics and scale? Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Poland - what's next in terms of international expansion? What would be the critical piece of advice you would Fabian give to his younger self? A favorite non-fiction book for aspiring entrepreneurs: The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance What are the trendy hobbies on the Berlin start-up scene? Where are you on your entrepreneurial journey after the latest USD 600 m raise (and USD 3bn+ valuation)?  Best way to reach out In the end, it will be okay, and if it's not okay, it's not the end.Fabian Wesemann

You can subscribe and listen to every episode of the "Unleash the Awesome" podcast at https://gambrill.com/podcast .  0:59 "The word 'coach' is the most bastardized word in the English language." - Christian Simpson 1:52 A teacher or trainer is someone who can learn new information, synthesize it, and then teach it to others, without necessarily having their own personal experience or mastery of the subject. 2:46 "Money - Master the Game" - Tony Robbinshttps://amzn.to/3pCPAYL . 3:14 Napoleon Hill was a "reporter expert" or teacher with his book, "Think and Grow Rich."https://amzn.to/3z7zAlE . 3:53 Sully Sullenberger - Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sully_Sullenberger . 5:15 A mentor is a subject matter expert with personal experience and success that will guide you through their own, first-person experience.  8:15 A coach is someone who understands psychology and human performance who can help other individuals or groups unleash their awesome, regardless of whether the coach has extensive subject matter expertise or success in the area being coached. 8:34 "The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance" - Tim Gallwey https://amzn.to/3iBeKVQ . 9:20 True coaches understand that the answers to forward progress are in the participants' heads. 13:19 "How to Master the 4 Phases of Learning for Peak Performance" - Episode 4 of the "Unleash the Awesome" podcast. https://gambrill.simplecast.com/episodes/how-to-master-the-4-phases-of-learning-for-peak-performance . 20:52 When people feel like they have co-created a solution, they are much more likely to embrace and implement it.  29:42 "The Four Hour Work Week" by Tim Ferriss https://amzn.to/3pDgm2Q . 30:45 "The Rise of the Digital CEO" video training series by James Wedmore of Business by Design.https://www.jameswedmoretraining.com/a/2147487124/zgt2RAuc .Want some help deciding what tech tools to use in your business? Check out Tech Tools Tuesday.https://gambrill.com/ttt . Come join the conversation in our communities... Digital Marketing Mentorship with Dave Gambrill Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/dmmdavegambrill . Digital Marketing Mentorship with Dave Gambrill Telegram Channelhttps://gambrill.com/telegramdmm . And let me know what you thought of this episode and what you'd like me cover in future episodes over on Instagram.https://www.instagram.com/gambrill/ .  #unleashawesome #coaching #coach #businessbydesign #bbd #entrepreneur #success #jameswedmore #funnelhacker #mentor #mindset #skillset #10x #timferriss #4hww #davegambrill #techtools #digitalmarketing #jmtdna  #toolset #tagr #napoleonhill  #lifestyledesign #sully #digitalceo #trainer #mentorship #corporatetrainer #sidehustle  CONSUMER NOTICE: You should assume that I have an affiliate relationship and/or another material connection to the providers of goods and services mentioned in this broadcast and may be compensated when you purchase from a provider. You should always perform due diligence before buying goods or services from anyone via the Internet or offline.

My guest today is challenging the status quo defining high performance culture. Once the embodiment of an aggressive athlete, Jason Dorland used to identify himself according to the results of his competitions―winner or loser. The elite rower was raised with an “in-it-to-win-it” attitude and was trained to think of every competitor as an enemy. It took a devastating loss at the 1988 Olympic Games to shatter this destructive way of thinking, and it took the advice of Olympic middle-distance runner Robyn Meagher (who would later become Dorland's wife) to help re-shape his views on what it truly means to win―both in sport and in life. Web: Your Mindset LinkedIn: Connect with Jason Today we explore Jason's understanding of high performance culture, the epid defeat at the '88 Olympics, and his work in the leadership development space. Connect with Nate Leslie at www.nateleslie.ca and on LinkedIn Jason and I reference Tim Gallwey's work around Interference (performance = Potential - Interference). Check out Tim's book, The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance here. For more about our work with Roy Group Leadership click here. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nathan-leslie/message

What’s the key to winning a game when you meet your opponent on the tennis court? How can someone with the best physique and the highest technical skill still lose the game? This book reveals that every game comprises two parts, an outer game and an inner game. Players play an inner game within their minds as they play the physical outer game against their opponent. Peak performance occurs only when the mind is calm and at one with the body. This book will give you a glimpse into the psychology of peak performance through the medium of tennis.

It’s a great pleasure to welcome Dr. Ivan Joseph on today’s episode. Dr. Joseph is a self-confidence expert. He has a background in athletics with immense success coaching soccer and serving as the Director of Athletics at Ryerson University. He was applauded for coaching the Ryerson Rams to first-time national championship twice and first-time provincial championship several times. Dr. Joseph also has a Ph.D. in sports psychology from Capella University. His sports background made him a master of understanding what motivates people and how they can build themselves up to optimize their performances.   Dr. Joseph is currently the Vice-President, Student Affairs at Wilfrid Laurier University where his role encompasses a wide range of responsibilities including enriching the student experience, strategic planning, fundraising, marketing, and development of sports facilities, among others. Dr. Joseph served in a similar capacity as Vice Provost, Student Affairs at Dalhousie University before choosing to return home to be closer to family.   In 2012, he gave a TEDx talk titled “The Skill of Self Confidence” and it has now been viewed more than 20 million times on YouTube. Dr. Joseph also published an excellent book titled You Got This: Mastering The Skill of Self-Confidence which was included in Amazon's Top 10 Most Gifted Books in Business Mentoring & Coaching category in 2018.   Anyone, especially emerging leaders, will find this episode truly enriching. Listen in and join us as Dr. Joseph shares his advice on building self-worth and self-confidence and how these will change your life.   Episode Highlights:   ●        From Helping Himself Be In Control to Helping Others [2:23] ●        Personality Types and the Tendency to Lose Confidence [5:17] ●        Failure - How Do You Build On It? [11:09] ●        Why Mentorship Is Essential [15:03] ●        Writing Yourself A Confidence Letter [17:45] ●        The Global Trait and Belief [27:31] ●        Dr. Joseph’s Process for Achieving Clarity of Purpose [34:22] ●        Book Recommendations [37:12]   Resources Mentioned In This Episode: ●        I believe anyone can be a leader in today’s world that’s why I’ve created a short, user-friendly book called Redefining the Top 1 Percent. Get your FREE copy by joining our Facebook Group here. Not only are you getting a free copy of my book, you’ll also get lots of FREE training and resources on a weekly basis. ●        Head to drivanjoseph.com and check out Dr. Joseph’s workshops, book, blog, and quote cards to keep you motivated and driven in bringing out the confident leader in you! ●        Get a FREE chapter of Dr. Joseph’s book here! You can also place the coupon code “IVANJOSEPH” to get a discount when you make the purchase. ●        Connect with Dr. Joseph by sending him an email or through  the following: o   Facebook o   Twitter o   LinkedIn o   Instagram ●        Book Recommendations: o   The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by W. Timothy Gallwey o   Golf is Not a Game of Perfect by Dr. Bob Rotella o   Who Moved My Cheese by Dr. Spencer Johnson   Quotes: “Progress involves failure.” “The road to excellence doesn’t go straight up. It’s not that first draft.” “Nobody does anything alone.” “Showing up on the field feeling good about yourself? What an amazing accomplishment!” “Happiness and optimism fuels high performance and excellence.” “But we don’t spend time thinking about clarity of purpose and alignment of purpose with where we are in our lives and where we’re working, and I think that’s really key.” “I want people to understand why they’re making those big decisions and what’s driving those big decisions.”     Ways to Subscribe to Redefining The Top One Percent:   Apple Podcast Stitcher PlayerFM Spotify

02:15 - David’s Superpower: Being Confused * Norms of Excellence (https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-05-31-09:20.html) * The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance (https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Game-Tennis-Classic-Performance/dp/0679778314) 11:56 - Daily Writing * David’s Newsletter: Overthinking Everything (https://drmaciver.substack.com/) * Unfuck Your Habitat (https://www.unfuckyourhabitat.com/) 15:47 - Learning to Be Better at Emotions 23:22 - Achievement and Joy as Aspirational Goals * [Homeostasis vs Homeorhesis](https://wikidiff.com/homeostasis/homeorhesis#:~:text=is%20that%20homeostasis%20is%20(physiology,to%20a%20trajectory%2C%20as%20opposed) * Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming by Agnes Callard (https://www.amazon.com/Aspiration-Agency-Becoming-Agnes-Callard/dp/0190639482) * Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott (https://www.amazon.com/Seeing-like-State-Certain-Condition/dp/0300078153/ref=sr_1_2?crid=HEYGC212F6SG&dchild=1&keywords=seeing+like+a+state+by+james+c+scott&qid=1613057768&s=books&sprefix=seeing+like+a+state%2Cstripbooks%2C164&sr=1-2) * Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein (https://www.amazon.com/Philosophical-Investigations-Ludwig-Wittgenstein/dp/1405159286/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1JRUU030WBCWQ&dchild=1&keywords=philosophical+investigations&qid=1613058025&s=books&sprefix=philos%2Cstripbooks%2C209&sr=1-1) Reflections: Jessica: Trying not knowing yourself. Rein: You shouldn’t be the owner of all your desires. Instead, you should measure your life by how well you follow the intentions that arise out of your values. Jacob: Thinking of yourself as the sum of all of the habits you maintain or don’t. David: The [Homeostasis vs Homeorhesis](https://wikidiff.com/homeostasis/homeorhesis#:~:text=is%20that%20homeostasis%20is%20(physiology,to%20a%20trajectory%2C%20as%20opposed) distinction, and cleaning a home as an ongoing process. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Transcript: SPONSORED AD: Whether you're working on a personal project or managing enterprise infrastructure, you deserve simple, affordable, and accessible cloud computing solutions that allow you to take your project to the next level. Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode's Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and easier. Get started on Linode today with $100 in free credit for listeners of Greater Than Code. You can find all the details at linode.com/greaterthancode. Linode has 11 global data centers and provides 24/7/365 human support with no tiers or hand-offs regardless of your plan size. In addition to shared and dedicated compute instances, you can use your $100 in credit on S3-compatible object storage, Managed Kubernetes, and more. Visit linode.com/greaterthancode and click on the "Create Free Account" button to get started. JACOB: Hello and welcome to Greater Than Code, Episode 223. My name is Jacob Stoebel and I'm joined with my co-host, Rein Henrichs. REIN: Thanks, Jacob and I'm here with my friend and also stranger because we haven't done this together in months, Jessica Kerr. JESSICA: Thank you, Rein! And Iím really excited today because our guest is David MacIver. Twitter handle, @DRMacIver. David MacIver is best known as the developer of Hypothesis, the property-based testing library for Python, and is currently doing a Ph.D. based on some of that work. But he also writes extensively about emotions, life, and society and sometimes coaches people on an eclectic mix of software development, intellectual, and emotional skills. As you can probably tell, David hasn't entirely decided what he wants to do when he grows u and that's the best because if you had decided well, then so few possibilities would be open. David, hello! DAVID: Hi, Jessica! Great to be here. JESSICA: All right. I'm going to ask the obligatory question. What is your superpower and how did you acquire it? DAVID: So as you saw me complaining about on Twitter, this question doesn't translate very well outside of the United States. JESSICA: Yeah, which is fascinating for me. DAVID: I'm a bit too British to say nice things about myself without sounding like I'm being self-deprecating. JESSICA: Self-depreciating it is! DAVID: [laughs] So I thought about this one for a while and I decided that the answer is that I'm really good at being confused and in particular, I have a much more productive response to being confused than it seems like most people do because basically, the world is super confusing and I think I never know what's going on, but then I notice that I know what's going on and I look at it and I'm just like, ìHmm, this is weird, right?î And then I read a book about it, or I sort of poke at it a bit and then I'm not less confused, but I'm less confused about that like, one little facet of the world and have found ten new things to be confused about. [laughter] JESSICA: Nice. DAVID: Usually, I can then turn this into being slightly better at the thing I was previously confused about, or writing about it and making everyone else differently confused than they started with. JESSICA: Definitely confused. That is a win. That's called learning. DAVID: Yeah, exactly. [laughter] This is where a lot of the writing you were talking about comes from and essentially, about 2 years ago, I just started turning these skills less on software development and more just going like, ìLife, it doesn't make sense, right?î [laughter] And noticing a whole bunch of things, I needed to work on and then that a lot of these were shared common problems. So I am, if anything, far more confused about all of it than I was 2 years ago, but I'm less confused about the things I was confused about that and seem to be gradually becoming a more functional human being as a result of the process. So yay, confusion. JESSICA: That superpower, the productive response to confusion, ties in with your reaction to the superpower question in general, which is as Americans, we're supposed to be ñ we want to have power. We want to be special. We want to be unique. We want to make our unique contribution to the world! And as part of that, we're not comfortable being confused because we need to know things! We need to be smart! We need to convey strength and competence and be the best! I hate the superlatives. [laughter] I hate the implied competition there, but instead, we could open our hearts to our own confusion and embrace that. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. DAVID: One of the things that often comes up for me is it's a thing that I think is slightly intentioned with this American tendency youíre pointing at, which is that I kind of want to be the best, but I don't really want to be better than other people. I just want to be better than I am now. I wrote a post a while ago about neuromas of excellence like, what would a community look like, which helped everyone be the best version of themselves and one of the top lists was basically that everyone has to be comfortable with not being good at things, but another is just that you have to not want to be better to the other people. You just need want to be better. Again, this is where a lot of the writing comes from. I've just gone, ìWell, this was helpful to me. It's probably helpful to other people.î That's not as sense of wanting to change the world and wanting to put my own stamp on things and it does require a certain amount to self-importance to go, ìYes, my writing is important and other people will like to read it,î but then other people like to read it so, that's fine and if they don't, that's fine, too. JESSICA: Well, you didn't make anyone read it, but you did start a newsletter and let people read it. JACOB: Is this weird thinking reflect a journey that you took in your life? Because I think about my company and my team and how incredibly generous everybody is and even still, I just find it's natural to compare myself to everyone else and needing to not be on the bottom. Part of me wonders if that's just like a natural human tendency, but just because it's natural doesn't make it so. JESSICA: Way natural American. JACOB: Yeah, basically I'm asking how do I stop doing that? [laughter] DAVID: It's definitely not something I've always been perfectly good at. But I think the thing that helped me figure out how to do this was essentially being simultaneously at the bottom of the social rung, but also super arrogant. So it's your classic nerd kit thing, right? It's completely failing at people, but also going, ìBut I'm better than all of you because I'm smart,î and then essentially, gradually having the rough edges filed off the second part and realizing how much I had to learn off the first part. I think sometimes my attitude is due to a lot of this is basically, to imagine I was a time traveler and basically going back in time and telling little David all the things that it was really frustrating that nobody could explain to me and I sadly haven't yet managed to perfect my time machine, but I can still pay it forward. If nobody was able to explain this to me and I'm able to explain it to other people, then surely, the world is a better place with me freely handing out this information. I don't think it's possible, or even entirely desirable to completely eliminate the comparing yourself to others and in fact, I'd go as far as to say, comparing yourself to others is good, but I think theÖ JESSICA: Itís how do we have a productive response to compare ourselves to others? DAVID: Yeah, absolutely. There's a great section in The Inner Game of Tennis, which is a book that I have very mixed feelings about, but it has some great bits where he talks about competition. If you think of a mountain climber, a mountain climber is basically pitting themselves against the mountain, right? They're trying to climb the mountain because it is hard and you could absolutely take a helicopter to the top of the mountain, but that wouldn't be the point. It's you're improving yourself by trying a hard thing. I mean, you're improving yourself in the sense that you're getting better at climbing mountains. You might not be improving yourself in any sort of fully generalizable way. JESSICA: Okay. [laughter] DAVID: When you are playing tennisóbecause this is a book about tennisóyou are engaged in competition with each other and you're each trying to be better than the other. In this context, essentially, what you are doing is you are being the mountain for each other. So you are creating the obstacles that the other people overcome and improve themselves that way and in doing this, you're not just being a dick about it. You're not doing this in order to crush them. You're doing this in order to provide them with the challenge that lets them grow. When you think about it this way, other people being better than you is great because there's this mountain there and you can climb it and by climbing the mountain, you can improve yourself. The thing that stops everyone becoming great is feeling threatened by the being better rather than treating it as an opportunity for learning. JESSICA: Yeah, trying to dynamite the mountain instead of climbing it. Whereas, when you are the mountain for someone else, you can also provide them footholds. Rein, do you have an example of this? REIN: I sure do, Jess. Thanks for asking. So I was just [laughs] thinking while you were talking about this, about the speed running and speed running communities. Because speed running is about testing yourself against a video game, which in this case, serves the purpose of the mountain, but it's also about competing against other speed runners. If it was purely competitive, you wouldn't see the behaviors, the reciprocity in the communities like sharing speed running strats, being really happy when other people break your record. I think it's really interesting that that community is both competitive, but there's also a lot of reciprocity, a lot of sharing. JACOB: And it's like the way the science community should work. It's like, ìOh, you made this new discovery because of this discovery I shared with you and now I'm proud that my discovery is this foundation for all these other little things that now people can be by themselves in 10 seconds instead of 30.î JESSICA: Yeah. Give other people a head start on the confusion you've already had so that they can start resolving new confusions. DAVID: Yeah, absolutely. Definitely one of my hopes with all of this writing is to encourage other people to do it themselves. Earlier this year, I was getting people very into daily writing practices and just trying to get people to write as much as possible. I now think that was slightly a mistake because I think daily writing is a great thing to do for about a month and then it just gets too much. So I will probably see if I can figure out other ways of encouraging people to notice their confusion, as you say, and share what they've learned from edge. But sadly, can't quite get into do it daily. JESSICA: This morningís newsletter you talked about. Okay, okay, I can do daily writing, but now I want to get better at writing. I've got to go do something I'm worse at. DAVID: Yeah, absolutely. I think daily writing is still a really good transitional stage for most people. To give them more context for this newsletter for people listening. Basically, most of my writing to date, I just write in a 1- or 2-hour sitting from start to finish. I don't really edit it. I just click publish and I've gotten very good at writing like that. I think that most people are ñ I mean, sometimes it's a bit obvious that I haven't edited it because they're obvious typos and the like. But by and large, I think it is a reasonably high standard of writing and I'm not embarrassed to be putting it out in that quality, but the fact that I'm not editing is just starting to be sort of the limiter on growth for me. It's never going to really get better than it currently is. It's certainly not going to allow me to tackle larger projects that I can currently tackle without that editing skill. JESSICA: [laughs] I just pictured you trying to sit down and write a book in one session. [laughter] And then you'd be tired. DAVID: Yeah. I've tried to doing that with papers even and it doesn't really work. I mean, I do edit papers, but Iím very visibly really bad at editing papers and it's one of my weaknesses as a academic is that I still haven't really got the hang of paper writing. JESSICA: Do you edit other people's papers? DAVID: I don't edit other people's papers, but I provide feedback on other people's writing and say, ìThis is what worked for me. This is what didn't work for me. Here are some typos you made.î It's not reading as providing good feedback on things, that is the difficult part of editing for me. It is much more ñ honestly, it's an emotional problem more than anything else. It's not really that I'm bad at editing at a technical level. I'm okay at editing at a technical level. I just hate doing it. [laughs] JESSICA: That is most problems we have, right? DAVID: Yeah. JESSICA: In the end, itís an emotional problem. DAVID: Yeah, absolutely. I think that is definitely one of the interesting things I've been figuring out in my last 2 years of working on learning more about emotions and the various skills around them is just going, ìOh, right. It's not this abstract thing where you are learning to be better at emotions and then nothing will change in your life because you're just going to be happier about everything.î I mean, some people do approach it that way, but for me, it's very much been, ìOh, I'm learning to be good at emotions because this really concrete problem that I don't understand, it turns out that that's just feelings.î [laughter] It's like, for example, the literature on how to have a clean home, turns out that's mostly anxiety management and guilt management. It's like fundamentally cleaning your home is not a hard problem. Not procrastinating on cleaning your home is a hard problem. Not feeling intensely guilty and aversive about the dirty dishes in the sink and is putting them off for a week. I don't do that. But just as a hypothetical example. [laughter] I mean, not a hypothetical example, I think a specific example that comes from the book, Unfuck Your Habitat, which is a great example of essentially, it's a book that's about it contains tips, like fill the spray bottle with water and white vinegar and also, tips about how to manage your time and how to deal with the fact that you're mostly not cleaning because of shame, that sort of thing. Writing books are another great example where 80% about managing the feelings associated with writing; it turns out practical problems pretty much all come down to emotionsóat least practical life problems. REIN: Sorry, I was just buying Unfuck Your Habitat real quick. [laughter] DAVID: It's a good book. I recommend it. JESSICA: Our internal like emotional habitat and our external habitat are very linked. You said something earlier about learning to be at emotions is not just you're magically happier at other things in your life change. DAVID: Yes. I mean, I think there are a couple of ways in which it manifests. One of them is just that emotions often are the internal force that maintains our life habits. It's you live in a particular way because moving outside of those trained habits is scary or aversive in some way. Like the cleaning example of how, if your home is a mess, it's not necessarily because you don't know how to make your home not a mess. Although, cleaning is a much harder skill than most people treat it as speaking as someone who is bad at the practical skills of cleaning, as well as the emotional side of cleaning. But primarily, if it were just a matter of scale, you could just do it and get better at it, right? The thing that is holding you in place is the emotional reaction to the idea of changing your habits. So the specific reason why I started on all of this process was essentially relationship stuff. I'd started a new major relationship. My previous one hadn't gone so well for reasons that were somewhere between emotional and communication issues, for the same reason basically every relationship doesn't go so well, if it doesn't go so ñ Oh, that's not quite true. Like there are actual ñ JESSICA: Some people have actual problems. [chuckles] But these things are. I mean, our emotions really, as sometimes we treat them as if they're flaws. As if our emotions are getting in our way is some sort of judgment about us as not being good people, but no, it just makes us people. DAVID: For sure. JESSICA: So you started on this journey because of the external motivation of helping someone you're in a relationship with, because it's really hard to do these things just for ourselves. DAVID: It is incredibly hard to do things just for ourselves. I guess, that is exactly an example of this problem, right? It's that there is a particular habit of life that I was in and what I needed to break out of that habit of life was the skills for dealing with it and then figuring out these emotional reactions. But unfortunately, the thing that the habits were maintaining, it was me not having the skills and so having the external prompts of a problem that was in the world rather than in my life, as it was, was what was needed to essentially kick me out of that. Fortunately, it turns out that my standard approach of reading a thousand books now was one that worked for me, in this case. I probably haven't read a thousand books on this, but that certainly worked. JESSICA: It wouldnít surprise me. [laughs] DAVID: I read fewer books than people think I do. I may well have read more than a hundred books about emotions and therapy and the like. But I probably haven't, unless I cast that brush really broadly, because I mean, everything's a book about emotions and therapy, if you look at your right. REIN: Have you read any books by average Virginia Satir? [laughter] DAVID: I don't know who that is, I'm afraid. JACOB: Drink! REIN: Excellent! Excellent news. [laughter] JESSICA: Itís about Virginia Satir, right? REIN: Virginia was a family therapist who wrote a lot about processing emotions and I have been a huge fan of her work and it's made a huge difference in my life and my career. So I highly recommend it. DAVID: Okay. I will definitely hear recommendations on books. What's the book title, or what's your favorite book title by? REIN: I think I would start with The Satir Model, which is S-A-T-I-R M-O-D-E-L. The Satir Model, which is about her family therapy model. JESSICA: Chances are good, you've read books based on her work. I was reading Gerry Weinberg's Quality Software Management: Volume Two the other day, which is entirely based on The Satir Model. REIN: Yeah. He was a student of hers. One of the things that she likes to say is that the problem is never the problem, how we cope is the problem. JESSICA: Can we have a productive response to the problem? DAVID: Yeah, that absolutely makes sense. I think often, the problem is also the problem. [laughter] JESSICA: It's often self-sustaining like the habits you're talking about. Our life habits form a self-sustaining system and then it took that external stimulus. It's not like an external stimulus somehow kicked you in the butt and changed you, it let you change yourself. DAVID: Yes, absolutely. I guess what I mean is ñ so let's continue with the cleaning example. The problem is that your flat is messy and your flat is messy because of these life habits, because your emotional reactions to all these things. If you do the appropriate emotional work, you unblock yourself on shame and anxiety around a messy flat, and you look around and you've saw you've processed all these emotions. You fixed how you respond to the problem and it turns out your flat is still messy and you still have to clean it. I think emotional reactions are what either ñ Iím making it sound like emotional reactions are all negative and I really don't mean that. I mean, that way is just ñ JESSICA: Oh, right because once you've dealt with all that shame and the anxiety and stuff, and maybe you've picked up your flat some, and then you come in and you have groceries and you stop and you immediately put them away and you get a positive, emotional feeling from that as you're in the process of keeping your flat tidy. The emotions can reinforce a clean flat as well. DAVID: Yeah, absolutely. I think this is something that has always been one of my goals more than it is what am I active? JESSICA: No, I love this distinction that you're making here. Is it a goal or is it something I'm activelyÖ? The word goal is [inaudible]. DAVID: Yeah. So I think for me, one of the other problems, other than the relationships it starts, was me essentially realizing that my emotional experience, it wasn't bad. I mean, it wasn't great, but I wasn't actively miserable most of the time, but it also just didn't have very many positive features, which it turns out is also a form of depression. It's very easy to treat depression as just like you're incredibly sad all the time, but that doesn't have to what it can be like flatness is. So I think very much from early on in my mind was that the getting better at emotions wasn't just about not being anxious. It was also about experiencing things like joy, it was about being happier and I think having this as sort of an aspirational goal is very, very motivating in terms of a lot of this work and in terms of a lot of trying to understand all of this, because I think I don't want to be miserableóit only gets you so far. If you have a problem that you're trying to solve, and that turns out to be an emotional block, you have to actually wants to solve the problem. It's like, I think if you don't want to clean the flat, then it doesn't matter how much you sort of fix your anxiety around that. You're still just going to go, ìOkay. I'm no longer anxious about this messy flat. That's great,î and your flat is going to stay messy because you don't actually want it not to be and that's fine. JESSICA: Itís just fine, yeah. Who cares? Especially now. DAVID: Unless it becomes a health hazard, but yeah. [laughter] DAVID: Certainly like thereís ñ JESSICA: If you're affecting the neighboring flats with your roaches, thatís fine. DAVID: [laughs] Yeah. JESSICA: So you were talking about joy as an aspirational goal, but it's not the kind of goal where you check the box at the end of the year and declare yourself worthy of a 2% raise. DAVID: [laughs] No, absolutely not and I think for all big goals, really, I find that I want to be very clichÈ and say, it's the journey, not the destination. JESSICA: But it is! No, it totally is! DAVID: Yeah. JESSICA: See, the word goal really irks me because people often use it to mean something that you should actually reach. Like write every day per month, that's a goal that you find benefits from hitting, but feelings of joy are, as you said, aspirational. I call it a quest, personally. Some people call it a North Star. It is a direction that can help you make decisions that will move you in that direction, but if you ever get thereÖ No, that doesn't make sense. You wouldn't want to exist in a perpetual state of joy. That would also be flat. [laughs] DAVID: No, absolutely. And I think even with big but achievable goals, it still is still quite helpful to treat them in this way. So for one, quite close to my heart right now, a goal of doing a Ph.D. I think you've got a 3-, 4-year long project in the States, I think it's more like 5 or 6 and if you treat the Ph.D. as it's pass/fail, like either you get the Ph.D. or those 3 or 4 years have been wasted, then that's not very motivating and also will result in, I think, worst quality results in work. Like the thing to do is ñ JESSICA: Like anxiety, stress, and shame. DAVID: Yeah. Yeah, very much so. [chuckles] So just thinking in terms of there's this big goal that you're trying to achieve of the Ph.D., but the goal doesn't just define a pass/fail; it defines a direction. Like if you get better at paper writing in order to get your Ph.D., then even if you don't get your Ph.D., you got better at paper writing and that's good, too. JESSICA: Because the other outcome is the next version of you. DAVID: Yes, exactly. JESSICA: Itís about who does this aspirational goal prompt you to become? REIN: This reminds me of the difference between homeostasis and homeorhesis. Homeostasis is about maintaining a state; homeorhesis is about maintaining a trajectory DAVID: That makes sense. Yes, very much that distinction and also, one of the nice things about this focus on a trajectory is that even if a third of the way through the trajectory, you decide you don't want to maintain it anymore and actually you're fine where you are. This goal was a bad idea or you've got different priorities now, possibly because a global pandemic has arrived and has changed all of your priorities. Then you still come all that way. It's like the trajectory doesn't just disappear backwards in time because you're no longer going in that direction. You've still made all that progress. Youíve still got to drive some of the benefits from it. JESSICA: Yeah. There's another thing that maybe it's an American thing, or maybe it's wider than that of if it doesn't last forever, then it was never real, or if you don't achieve the stated goal, then all your effort was wasted. DAVID: Yeah. I don't think itís purely an American thing. It's hard to tell with how much American pop culture permeates everything and also, I shouldn't say that although I'm quite British, I am also half American. So Iím a weird third culture kid where my background doesn't quite make sense to anyone. But yeah, no, I very much feel that. This idea that permanence is required for importance and it's something that every time I sort of catch myself there, I'm just like, ìYeah, David, you're doing the thing again. Have you tried not doing the thing?î [chuckles] But it's hard. It's very internalized. JESSICA: If you clean your flat and a week later, it's dirty again. Well, it was clean for a week. That's not nothing. DAVID: Yeah. I do genuinely think that one of the emotions that people struggle with cleaning. Certainly, it is for me. JESSICA: Oh, because it's a process. It is not a destination. Nothing is ever clean! DAVID: Yeah. JACOB: I think of myself sometimes as I want to be the kind of person that always has a clean home, as opposed to, I like it when my house is clean. JESSICA: Yeah. Is it about you or is it about some real effect you want? JACOB: Yeah. Is it about like the story that that I imagine I could project if I could project on Instagram because I'm taking pictures of my pristine house all the time, or is it just like, I like to look around and see things where they belong? DAVID: Yeah. I'm curious, does this result in your home being clean? JACOB: No, it doesnít and thatís sort of the issue that I'm just realizing is it's not actually a powerful motivator because it's just not possible trying to imagine that I could maintain homeostasis about it. It's not a possible goal and so yeah, it's not going to happen. REIN: Yeah. The metaphor here is it changes motion, but it's always happening so it's more like the flow of time than motion through space. JESSICA: Itís not motion, too. REIN: Actually staying the same is very hard to do and very expensive. DAVID: Absolutely. JESSICA: No wonder it takes all of our feelings to help us achieve it. [chuckles] DAVID: So the reason I was asking by the way about whether this idea of being the sort of person who has a clean home is effective is that this ties in a little bit to what today's newsletter was about. There's this problem where when you have self-images that are constructed around being good at particular things, being bad at those things is very much, it's a shame trigger. It's essentially, you experienced the world as clashing with your conception of yourself and we get really good at not noticing those things. You see this a lot with procrastination, for example, where you are putting off doing a thing because it does force you to confront this sort of conflict between identity and reality. I think sometimes, the way out of it is just to identify less with the things that we want to achieve in the world and just try and go, ìI'm doing this because I want to and if I didn't want to, that would be fine, too.î Essentially, becoming fine with both an outcome and failing to achieve that outcome is often the best way to achieve the outcome. JESSICA: So practicing editing in order to practice editing, whether you achieve writing a book or not, whether you're good at it or not, and it does come back to the journey. If what you're doing is a means to an end and yet not in line with that end, it often backfires because the means are the end. In the end, they become it. So having a clean house is stupid. That's not a thing. Picking up is a thing. That's something you can do and what I am picking up. True fact! [laughs] You don't have to worry about whether you can, are you doing it? All right then, you can! Whereas, having a clean house is not a thing. DAVID: Very much. This kind of ties into the comments about books earlier, where you were talking about how many books I read, and one of the things that I think very much stops people from reading books is the idea that oh God, there are so many books to read, I'll never get through all of them. JESSICA: If I started, I have to finish it. DAVID: Oh, yeah. I mean, people definitely shouldn't do that; books are there to be abandoned if they're bad. JESSICA: I read a lot of chapter ones. DAVID: Yeah. I have a slightly bad habit of buying books speculatively because they seem good and as a result, I think my shelf of books that I'm probably never going to get around to read, but might do someday and might not and either is fine is probably like a hundred plus books now. JESSICA: I love that shelf. I have big piles everywhere. [laughs] There's always something to read wherever I sit and most of it, I will never read, but it's beautiful. DAVID: I'm currently in a very weird experience where I write, for possibly the first time in my life, I have more bookshelf space than books. JESSICA: Huh, that's not a stable state. DAVID: No, no. This will be fixed by the time I leave this flat. The piles will return. JESSICA: You will maintain the trajectory. DAVID: Yeah. [laughs] Because I'm just reading. I can read these as many books because I just sit down and read and at some point, I will finish a book or I will abandon the book and both are fine. But I think if you treat this as a goal where your goal is to read all the books, then that's not the thing and also, I think people go, ìMy goal is to read a hundred books a year,î or I don't know how normal people guesstimates are. JESSICA: Itís like, is it really or itís their goal to learn something. DAVID: Yeah, exactly. JESSICA: And the means is reading books. DAVID: Yeah. I think if one instead just goes, ìI like reading and it's useful so I'm going to read books,î you'll probably end up reading a lot more than setting some specific numerical goal. Also, you run into sort of Goodhart's law things where if your goal is to read a hundred books in a year, great buy the Mr. Men set. But wait, it's not a thing in ñ the Mr. Men are a series of kidsí books which tells ñ JESSICA: With the big smiley face? DAVID: Yeah. Exactly, that's the one. [laughter] You can read a hundred of those in a weekóI assume there are hundred Mr. Men books, I don't actually knowóand youíll probably learn something. JESSICA: Then again, you might choose Dynamics in Action, never get through it, and then feel bad about it, and that would be pointless because you learned more from the introduction than you did from the Mr. Men series. DAVID: I don't think I've even opened my copy of Dynamics in Action. I think you recommended on Twitter or something and I was just like, ìThat does sound interesting. I will speculatively buy this book.î JESSICA: It's a hard book. DAVID: Yeah. It's far from the hardest book on my shelves, but it's definitely in the top. I'm going to confidently say top 20, but it might be harder than that. I just haven't done a comparative analysis and I don't want to overpromise. [laughter] JESSICA: The point being read books because you want to know. DAVID: Yeah. JESSICA: Or sometimes because you want to have read them. That's the thing. There's a lot of things I may not want to pick up, but I do want to have picked up and I can use that to motivate me. DAVID: Yeah, and even then, there are two versions of that and both are good, actually. I think one of them sounds bad. One version is you want to have read it because you want to understand the material in it and the other one is just, you want to be able to say that you have read it and thus, you ñ and probably for the status game and also, just sort of as a box ticking, like I think ñ JESSICA: Oh, itís not completely wrong. DAVID: No, it's not completely wrong. JESSICA: You still get something out of it. DAVID: Yeah. JESSICA: On the other hand, if you want to read it because you want to be the kind of person who would read it. I don't know about that one. DAVID: Yeah, I agree. I thinkÖ JESSICA: Then again, life habits. Sometimes, if you want to be the kind of person who picks up and so you fake it long enough to form the habit, then you are. DAVID: Yeah, absolutely and I read a book recentlyóof course, I didóby Agnes Callard called Aspiration, which I'm glad I read it. I cannot really recommend it to people who aren't philosophers, because there's a thing that often happens with reading analytic philosophy, where the author clearly has a keen insight into an important problem that you, as the reader, lack and the way they express that insight is through an entire bookís worth of slightly pedantic arguments with other analytic philosophers who have wrong opinions about the subjects. JESSICA: Half of Dynamics in Action is like that. DAVID: Yeah, I think it very complicated. REIN: Was it written as a thesis? DAVID: I don't think so. I'm not certain about that, but it might've been. It ended up being quite an influential book and I think she was mentioning that there's going to be a special issue of a journal coming out to recently about essentially, its impact and responses to it. But I think it's just genuinely that analytic philosophers had a lot of really wrong opinions about this subject. So the relevance of this is the idea she introduces the book is that of a proleptic value where ñ JESSICA: Proleptic, more words. DAVID: Proleptic basically, I think originally comes from grammar and it means something that stands in place for another thing. A proleptic value is what you do when you're engaged in a process of aspiration, which is trying to acquire values that you don't currently have. So she uses the example of a music student who wants to learn to appreciate the genre of music that they do not currently appreciate and they find a teacher who does appreciate that genre and they basically use their respect for that teacher as a proleptic value. They basically say, ìI don't currently value this genre of music, but I trust your judgment and I value your opinion and I will use your feedback and that respect for you as a value that stands in place of the future value of appreciating this genre of music that I hope to acquire.î So I think this thing of reading a book because you want to be the sort of person who reads that kind of book can have a similar function where even though, you don't really wants to read the book, that process of aspiration gives you a hook into becoming the sort of person who does want to read the book. JESSICA: That's like being the mountain for each other. DAVID: Yeah. JESSICA: In some ways. You're not going to get a view yet. You're only 10 feet off the ground, but meanwhile, just climb to climb because it's here. DAVID: Yeah. I'm not necessarily very good at being the sort of person reading books for this reason. Partly because there are so many books, I have so many other reasons to read, but yeah. JESSICA: Yeah, you're fine. You don't need more reasons to read a book. DAVID: [laughs] But I think two books that I have read mostly to have read them rather than necessarily because I was having an amazing time and learning lots of things reading them are Seeing Like a State by James Scott, which it's a good book. I don't think it's a bad book, but it is very much a history book that also has a big idea and there are like 70,000 blog posts about the big idea. So if you're going and wanting just the big idea, read one of the blog posts, but I'd seen a reference so many times and I was just like, ìYou know, this seems like a book that I should rate,î and my opinion is now basically that like, if you like history books and if you want lots of detail, then yeah, it's a great book to read. If you just want the big idea, donít. JESSICA: Right, because other people have presented it more succinctly, which probably happens with your Aspiration book that you talked about. DAVID: I would like it to happen with the Aspiration book. The Aspiration book is only a few years old. JESSICA: You've written a ñ oh, okay, so it's too soon for that. So you'll write about it, if you haven't yet. DAVID: Yeah, I havenít yet. Looking at it, it was published in 2018 and you have the paperback from 2019. So this is really cutting-edge philosophy to the degree that there is such a thing. [chuckles] JESSICA: Yeah. Oh no, what do you mean? [inaudible]. REIN: Seeing Like a State is. DAVID: Well, I've had this argument with philosopher friends where I was arguing that it was a thing and the philosopher friend was just like, ìIs it a thing, though?î Because the interesting thing about philosophy is just that it never goes out to date. People are sort of engaging with the entire historical cannon so the question is not does new philosophy get done? The question is more, I think is this less ñ? JESSICA: This isnít really a cutting edge. DAVID: Yeah, exactly. JESSICA: Itís more kind of a gentle nuzzling. DAVID: [laughs] Yeah. But also, is this more cutting edge than, I don't know, reading Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics? I don't know. JESSICA: Philosophy [inaudible]. DAVID: Yeah, I personally think that there is cutting-edge and this is on it, but plenty of room for philosophical dialogue on that subject if you can sort of dig Socrates up and ask him about it. [laughter] Yeah, and speaking of philosophy, the other book that I have read essentially to have read it rather than because I was getting a lot out of it was Wittgensteinís Philosophical Investigations where I essentially read it in order to confirm to myself that I had already picked up enough Wittgenstein by osmosis that I didn't really need to read it, which largely true. JACOB: This is the part of the show where we like to reflect on what we took from everything and just wrap things up a little bit. JESSICA: I have one thing written down. We talked a bit about who you are and who you want to be as a person, and how sometimes what you want to do is in conflict with how you think of yourself. Like, when you think of yourself as good at something, it's hard to be bad at it, long enough to learn better. It occurs to me that in our society, we're all about getting to know yourself and then expressing your true self, which is very much a homeostasis more than a homerhesis. But what have we tried not knowing yourself? What if we tried just like, I don't know who I am and then I can surprise myself and have more possibilities. That's my reflection. REIN: All of this discussion about happiness and pleasure, and diversion and striving reminds me a lot of Buddhist philosophy, or what I should say is, it reminds me a lot of my very limited understanding of Buddhist philosophy. Specifically, this idea that you shouldn't judge your life by the outcome of your preferences; that you shouldn't identify yourself with your wants and cling to the outcome of things. You can acknowledge that these things have happened and you can avoid unpleasant things, but you shouldn't be the owner of all of your desires. Instead, what you should do is measure your life by how well you follow the intentions that arise out of your values. JACOB: Yeah. Maybe to put another way, I'm starting to think maybe I could think of myself as the sum of all of the habits I maintain or don't, and try to think of outcome of those habits as what a lagging indicator, I guess, or as a secondary and think more of myself like, ìWell, what are the things that I find I am naturally doing and if I'm not, what can I do to just try to enforce it for myself that I'm going to do that more?î Or maybe I don't care. DAVID: So I'm not finding myself with sort of a single cohesive summation of the conversation, but I've really enjoyed it and there's been a couple of things I'm going to take away from it and mull over a bit more. I really liked the homeostasis versus homeorhesis distinction. I'd obviously heard the first word, but not the second word and so, I'm going to think about that a bit more. Sort of tying onto that, I very much liked Jessica's point of how a clean home isn't really a thing, you can only do cleaning and thinking much more in terms of the ongoing process than trying to think of it as a static goal that you are perfectly maintaining at all times. Slightly orthogonal in relation to that, but I'm also just going to look up Satir as an author and maybe read some of her books. [chuckles] REIN: Yay! DAVID: Because as we have established, always up for more reading. [laughs] JACOB: That should wrap up our Episode 223. I'd like to thank David for joining us and weíll see you next time. Special Guest: David MacIver.

Episode #76 with Henry and Dylan—Today they're discussing The Magic of Thinking Big, a book by David J. Schwartz.Read today's BOOK CLUB BOOK: The Magic of Thinking BigThe Magic of Thinking Big by David J. SchwartzDishin' out Smart Nonsense about:Why you must stop making excuses and take control of your lifeHow does your environment influence your path to success?Could you be better than the most successful person you know?LinksLessons from 7 Years Working in Restaurants | Smart Nonsense Pod #51Pod Club: Nick Kokonas—First Principles, Price Discrimination, and Surviving COVID | Smart Nonsense Pod #58Book Club: Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance | Smart Nonsense Pod #66Steph Smith: Working From Home, Creating Quality Content, and Learning to Code | Smart Nonsense Pod #68What Will You Learn: Talking With The Most Prolific Book Reviewers on the Internet | Smart Nonsense Pod #71Noah Cowan: Jeopardy! and The Art of Dabbling | Smart Nonsense Pod #73George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles | Lex Fridman Pod #31George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets | Lex Fridman Pod #132Bill Burr Stand-Up Monologue | Saturday Night LiveMonday Morning Podcast | Bill BurrOn Writing Well by William ZinsserThanks A Thousand by A. J. JacobsNaval RavikantJeff BezosJoe RoganTim FerrissJocko WillinkGeorge S. PattonSteve JobsKen HenryHere's the full Show Notes.Watch on YouTube & SubscribeWatch Henry's last YouTube video.P.S. Toss us a 5-star review :)

  Read the full Show Notes and search through the world’s largest audio library on Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website. “Not all things that matter can be measured, and not all the things that can be measured are important” is a phrase that summarises this conversation with Leigh. He shares the story of a team that was stuck in the perfection self-defeating loop. Focusing on seemingly important metrics that, in the end, did not allow them to improve as a team. Featured Book of the Week: The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey In The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by Timothy Gallwey, Leigh found a book that inspired his own approach as a Scrum Master and coach. He reflects on the similarities between the mental aspects in sports and product development.    About Leigh Griffin Leigh is an Engineering Manager in Red Hat working with distributed Agile teams. His focus is on the Agile mindset through proactive Coaching and helping teams to grow. You can link with Leigh Griffin on LinkedIn and connect with Leigh Griffin on Twitter.

Dan and Paco met (following social distancing rules!) after all these months of quarantine to record a brand new episode in beautiful Peekskill, NY literally outside Irstad Recordings. This is a different episode in that it was recorded outside. It was a gorgeous day and our listeners will be able to hear the birds singing in the background all through the informal conversation we had!We talked about what to focus on while doing Martial Arts Forms, training with and without physical contact, the various methods of learning new skills, Martial Arts evolution and much more. You'll also learn to say 'love' in sign language!We mentioned Rory Miller and his studies regarding not only Self Defense but also learning methodology. To learn more click here: https://www.chirontraining.com/And we also mentioned the book "The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance" by W. Timothy Gallwey (https://theinnergame.com/inner-game-books/the-inner-game-of-tennis/). Stay tuned and don't forget to send your questions to info@athousandexits.com!

In today's episode I talk with author and strength and conditioning coach Nick Winkelman, who is an expert in the the use of language and it's effect on learning various motor skills. His book, The Language of Coaching: The Art & Science of Teaching Movement, is available on Amazon now (Kindle and print copies available) and serves as a practical guide to improving HOW we coach with the words, phrases, and timing we choose. Nick is passionate about his field, an expert in the areas of strength and conditioning, and was a pleasure to speak with and get to know. You can learn more about him and pick up his book on TheLanguageOfCoaching.com or on Amazon. In this episode we talk about: Understanding the Why behind your athletes and getting to know them as people Adapting your language to fit what works best for THEM and helps them learn the motor skill you're teaching If "how you practice is how you play", why wouldn't you speak the same in a games as you do in practice? The difference between an 'internal cue' and 'external cue' and the benefits and drawbacks of each Beginning each session with the 'What, Why, & How" so your athletes are primed to learn and prepared for your feedback Specific, implementable strategies to use TODAY with your athletes (offering choices, A/B options, using athletic tape on their clothes to show them what you want them to do), to help them learn, see, and do what you're attempting to teach them Proving your competency as a coach through questions to your athletes and the Self Determination Theory Why coaches must be dynamic why a culture where it's safe to fail is a great method for allowing growth and self-development Nick offers the following as resources to improve your craft as a coach: The Inner Game of Tennis - The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by Timothy Gallwey Practice Perfect by Doug Lemov The Little Book of Talent by Dan Coyle Attention and Motor Learning - Gabriele Wulf The Language of Coaching: The Art and Science of Teaching Movement by Nick Winkelman Nick can be reached through his website TheLanguageOfCoaching.com, and Twitter and Instagram @Nick Winkelman. I'd encourage you to check out his talk "What We Say Matters" at the NSCA convention in 2018 on YouTube Here. And take his mini course available through his website.

According to author Timothy Gallwey, every game is composed of two parts, an outer game and an inner game. We play the outer game against an external opponent or obstacle, but the inner game takes place in the mind of the player. This insight has as much to do with testing as it does with tennis. Amy and Mike invited test prep professional Brett Ethridge to explain the relevance of the inner game of testing.  What are five things you will learn in this episode? What does the “inner game” refer to? How does the inner game concept explain when students with great grades earn low test scores? What two selves are at work during high pressure activities? How can we silence our inner critics while testing? What role does deliberate practice play in improving your inner game? MEET OUR GUEST After graduating from Duke University with a degree in Public Policy, Brett Ethridge spent two years in Madagascar doing community health education with the U.S. Peace Corps. Upon his return to the States, he helped launch a PR/marketing firm in Washington, D.C. before heading to graduate school where he earned a MA in International Finance and Economic Development from the University of Denver.  Dominate Test Prep, LLC is a leading provider of online GMAT and GRE test preparation courses and lessons to empower prospective MBAs and graduate school students to get into the programs of their choice. Dominate Test Prep is the parent company for Dominate the GMAT (www.dominatethegmat.com) and Dominate the GRE (www.dominatethegre.com) which have helped thousands of happy clients from around the world boost their scores on these all-important standardized tests so that they can pursue their dreams and future life aspirations, starting with higher education. Brett is also proud to be an Associate Member of AIGAC, the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants. In addition to founding Dominate Test Prep, Brett also operates successful nutrition and stock trading businesses. He is a huge Duke basketball fan, an avid tennis player, and a budding CrossFit athlete. Find Brett at brett@dominatetestprep.com. LINKS The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance  Using Mindfulness for Test and School Success (Episode #18) ABOUT THIS PODCAST Tests and the Rest is THE college admissions industry podcast. Explore all of our episodes on the show page.

With all of the uncertainty in the world, I wanted to go off my normal episode release schedule to interview a new friend who is very POSITIVE and!  His name is Collin Henderson and he is devoted husband and father of five beautiful children.  He is the CEO of Master Your Mindset and has written four books, "Culture is King", "The Culture Tool Box", "Master you Mindset", and "Positive Parenting."  He has been hired by companies across the United States to bring positive, motivational and inspiring stories that help take teams to new levels of success.   You can learn more about Collin's work at https://www.thecollinhenderson.com/.In this episode, you will hear MANY nuggets of WISDOM!  One of the best exercises of Collin's was used last night at my own dinner table, by my family!  Here is how it works: One family member will go around the dinner table and tell the other family members what makes them happy.  Next, they will tell one or each family one (or many) things that they like about that family member.Lastly, they will then tell their family what they love about themselves.Later in the episode, Collin talks about many mentors who have shared books with him along the way.  Here are a few of them for your reference to read!It takes what it takes - Trevor MoawadAtomic Habits - James ClearPeak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success - Brad MagnessThink and Grow Rich - Napolean HillThe Happiness Advantage - Shawn Anchor The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to Mental Side of Peak Performance - Timothy GallweyThe Power of Positive Leadership - Jon GordonInnercise - the new science to unlock your brain's power - John AssarafThe Slight Edge, Jeff Olson You can follow Collin through his social platforms below:Linked In - https://www.linkedin.com/in/collin-henderson-9b96996/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/chenderson83Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/collinhenderson/Website - http://www.thecollinhenderson.com/Lastly, Collin is a former WSU Coug who was a 4-year starter for the baseball and football team!  That is insane!   This guy is a baller who is always looking to improve and be the best dad he can be! 

Everyone of us who dances West Coast Swing had to learn how to do this dance at some point. To get good at the dance, we need to continue to learn and develop new skills. And along the way, we need teachers who impart knowledge and nurture our abilities. Learning and teaching are such an essential part of what we do as dancers, and they can shape both our understanding of the dance and how we do it. To learn more about learning, Eric sat down with Kris Swearingen, Champion-level dancer and middle school English teacher, to talk about how people learn and how to teach. They chatted about Kris's background and experience as an educator. They discussed a framework for understanding how people learn as well as how people differ in their learning abilities. Kris shared how he develops his students in the classroom and how he applies similar techniques to teaching dance. Eric asked Kris what he would like to see from teachers in our West Coast Swing community, and they ended with a conversation about how people can be better students of the dance. Whether you're a student of the dance, a teacher, or just curious about how humans work, this conversation will enlighten and give you a new perspective. footnotesBloom's Taxonomy - Vanderbilt University Center for TeachingMindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck (Amazon.com)"Mind Over Matter: Attitude and Mindset" on nakedbasics.com (blog)A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) by Barbara Oakley (Amazon.com)The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by W. Timothy Gallwey (Amazon.com)Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath (Amazon.com)

In this episode we chat with tournament regular, Sunshine Bon. She discusses her experiences at INDISC and we delve into the psychology of competitive pinball. We also chat about men talking about what themes women want....that's always fun! :) Parents: we do say the word "c%$p at the end of the show. FYI :) Aladdin's Castle (remember those!) http://allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com/2013/03/arcade-origins.html Flipping Great http://www.flippingreat.com/wp/ Macho Man Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/macho-pinball Pinside Post: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/pinball-themes-that-women-want INDISC Women's Finals:     http://www.twitch.tv/iepinball/v/534565709?sr=a&t=7291s The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679778314/ref=cmswrcpapais8EiEb9M6TT7F

On this episode Abadesi talks to Ruben Harris, founder and CEO of Career Karma. They help match you to the best coding bootcamp for you and publish a directory of over 450 bootcamps.In this episode they talk about...How he broke into tech and how Career Karma is helping people get into the industry“There are currently about 50,000 people graduating from four year universities every year [in software engineering] and about 40,000 people graduating from bootcamps. There are about half a million open jobs for software engineers. In the next five years there will be about 400,000 people graduating from four year universities and 1.4 million open jobs — so about a million people have to get jobs outside of college.”Ruben talked about his hustler’s approach to getting into investment banking after having graduated from a small school. He applied the same approach to getting into tech and talks about what he wishes others knew about the industry knowing what he knows now. He explains what Career Karma is doing to help more people get into the industry and talks about the transparency they are providing in the bootcamp landscape. He also talks about some of the benefits of downloading their app, like coaching, mentorship, and motivation.How to level up your career“As a software engineer and really anybody in general, you really want to think of time as your most precious commodity. Whether you’re exploring college or online courses or bootcamps, you want to factor in the time that it takes you to complete the program, so that whatever time you’re investing now creates more time for you in the future.”Ruben says that most people who are in software engineering now are actually self-taught. He talks about how software engineering is analogous to the music industry in that most musicians are not classically trained either, yet the music industry is accepting of most people, regardless of what their background is like, if they can do the work. He explains how people who are already working can increase their earning power by enrolling in a program that provides them with a credential, without having to go back to school. What makes a good software engineer“The ability to communicate is underrated — being able to communicate what you want, what you need help with, what your value is, the way that you talk to yourself, the way that you talk in a corporate environment, the way that you communicate with others, the way that you express your emotions, the way that you express how you feel.He breaks down what makes people in the Career Karma community successful, talks about the importance of passion, and why it’s important to treat your work like play. He also talks about the perception of hiring managers and why presenting yourself in the best possible light is an important piece of the puzzle.The importance of humility“Humility matters. There's a fine line between confidence and arrogance and I think confidence is extremely important, but you can be humble and confident at the same time.”Ruben talks about confidence and humility, and why it’s important to get the balance between them right. He says that it’s like playing the cello, where a good musician can move a room to applause even while playing very quietly, while beginner musicians want to play as loud as they can all the time. He also talks about authenticity and one of his favorite books of all time: The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance.“If you think about most people who go to work, they have masks on. If they go home and are a different person, they were pretending to be a different person to get the job. What would the workplace feel like if everybody came to work with their mask off?”We’ll be back next week so be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Breaker, Overcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.

LinksEffortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within by Kenny Wernerhttps://www.amazon.com/Effortless-Mastery-Liberating-Master-Musician/dp/156224003X/ The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by W. Timothy Gallweyhttps://www.amazon.com/Inner-Game-Tennis-Classic-Performance/dp/0679778314/ Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel, R.F.C. Hullhttps://www.amazon.com/Zen-Art-Archery-Eugen-Herrigel/dp/0375705090/ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M Pirsighttps://www.amazon.com/Zen-Art-Motorcycle-Maintenance-Inquiry/dp/0060839872/ The Green Lady Lounge - https://greenladylounge.com www.KenLovern.comShifting Souls Boutique http://shiftingsoulsboutique.com •This week's episode is made possible with the help of our podcast partners: CCU Orlando, Natural Awakenings Magazine, and Unity of Nashville.CCU OrlandoCCU Orlando is a welcoming community, dedicated to transforming lives, celebrating diversity, and supporting soul growth. CCU Orlando is located at 771 Holden Ave in Orlando FL with Sunday services at 9 and 11am. You can stream services live online as well as learn more at ChristChurchUnity.net.•Natural Awakenings Magazine of Central Florida/Greater OrlandoEach month Natural Awakenings magazines across the country take a practical look at the latest natural approaches to nutrition, fitness, creative expression, personal growth and sustainable living. Natural Awakenings Magazine is a free publication and is available in selected stores, health and education centers, healing centers, public libraries and wherever free publications are located. You can learn more, including advertising opportunities for your business by calling 407-628-0705.•Unity of Nashville, a sister ministry of CCU OrlandoIf you’re searching for a like-minded church community and a personal connection that supports your heart and mind in the central Tennessee area, then join Unity of Nashville at 10:00AM every Sunday at 5125 Franklin Pike. For more information, head over to unityofnashville.org.•This channel is also made possible through the continued support of our Angel patrons: Dove Borland, Peter Gibson, Paul Caswell, JJ Hamilton, Arlene Myer, Kathy & Terry, Marcia Mott, Nora Miles, Diana Cox, Lesley Williams, Susanna Garcia, and Shayla MountIf you would like to help be a part of bringing shows like this and other programs to the channel, please consider becoming a supporting patron. For patron information, episode show notes details about our other shows on the channel, head over to ExperienceOfTheSoul.com.And if you enjoyed this program, you can help spread the word by leaving a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or the podcast platform of your choice.The Authentic Spiritual Journey is copyright 2019, Cynthia Alice Anderson. All Rights Reserved. Our theme music is composed by Dave Kropf and used with permission by RRHOT Publishing.The Experience of the Soul Podcast Channel is a production of 818 Studios.Disclaimer: as an Amazon Associate, Cynthia Alice Anderson may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases made through these links.

Professional poker player Alec Torelli shares his tips for making wise decisions during high-stakes situations.— YOU'LL LEARN — 1) How to keep emotions from overtaking logic. 2) When to go with your gut. 3) How to better read people and situations. Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep514 for clickable versions of the links below. — ABOUT ALEC— Alec Torelli is a professional high stakes poker player turned digital entrepreneur and keynote speaker, who shares how the lessons he learned from poker can be applied to life and business.Alec is the founder of Conscious Poker, a popular poker training platform, and after spending the last 14 years making decisions for hundreds of thousands of dollars in a single hand, he now gives talks in which he dissects the anatomy of decision making to help others hone the way they make choices.• Alec's blog: AlecTorelli.com• Alec's Instagram: @alectorelli• Alec's Twitter: @AlecTorelli• Alec's website: ConsciousPoker.com• Alec's YouTube: Conscious Poker— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — • App: Blinkist• App: SaneBox• App: Trello• App: Waking Up• Video: “Why Meditation Made Me A Bad Person – Weekly Wisdom Episode 8” by Jay Shetty• Book: Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke• Book: The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by Timothy Gallwey• Book: Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment by Tal Ben-Shahar• Book: The Pursuit of Perfect: How to Stop Chasing Perfection and Start Living a Richer, Happier Life by Tal Ben-Shahar• Previous episode: 281: Making Better Decisions by Thinking in Bets with Annie Duke— THANK YOU SPONSORS! — • Prezi. Enhance your presentations. 2-week free trial available at prezi.com/awesome.• ZipRecruiter is the smartest way to hire. Try them for free at ZipRecruiter.com/htbaSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Professional poker player Alec Torelli shares his tips for making wise decisions during high-stakes situations.   You'll Learn: 1) How to keep emotions from overtaking logic 2) When to go with your gut 3) How to better read people and situations   About Alec: Alec Torelli is a professional high stakes poker player turned digital entrepreneur and keynote speaker, who shares how the lessons he learned from poker can be applied to life and business. Alec is the founder of Conscious Poker, a popular poker training platform, and after spending the last 14 years making decisions for hundreds of thousands of dollars in a single hand, he now gives talks in which he dissects the anatomy of decision making to help others hone the way they make choices. Alec’s blog: AlecTorelli.com Alec’s Instagram: @alectorelli Alec’s Twitter: @AlecTorelli Alec’s website: ConsciousPoker.com Alec’s YouTube: Conscious Poker   Resources mentioned in the show: App: Blinkist App: SaneBox App: Trello App: Waking Up Video: “Why Meditation Made Me A Bad Person – Weekly Wisdom Episode 8” by Jay Shetty Book: Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke Book: The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by Timothy Gallwey Book: Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment by Tal Ben-Shahar Book: The Pursuit of Perfect: How to Stop Chasing Perfection and Start Living a Richer, Happier Life by Tal Ben-Shahar Previous episode: 281: Making Better Decisions by Thinking in Bets with Annie Duke   Thank you Sponsors! Prezi. Enhance your presentations. 2-week free trial available at prezi.com/awesome. ZipRecruiter is the smartest way to hire. Try them for free at ZipRecruiter.com/htba   View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep514 

Former professional golfer, Thane Marcus Ringler, joins the podcast to discuss the path to the perfect swing. The system he developed on that path applies for mastery in any endeavor.   It's super boring. It's super unsexy. It's not fun, but you do it. You do the work because you know it produces results. The best performers, the best of anything... they find beauty in the process. Enjoying the mundane and they're able to do it over and over and over again because of it. And that is what produces the results. Thane Marcus Ringler   Who is Thane Marcus Ringler?   Thane Marcus Ringler is a former pro golfer turned writer, speaker, coach, and entrepreneur living in Los Angeles, CA. After competing for nearly four years as a professional, he transitioned out of the world of golf into his new endeavors.   In his current work, Thane is coming alongside freelancers, business owners, and entrepreneurs to help them by taking the professional athlete’s mindset to everyday people in everyday life. He is passionate about speaking to the journey from the journey and wants to empower this generation to take ownership of their lives and never settle for less than they are capable of.   Key Highlights on Mastery through Systems   [6:59] Life as a professional golfer [9:09] Simplicity, complexity, simplicity [12:08] Do humans make tasks too complicated? [17:57] There's no plan B (but what about A.5) [23:59] What it means to be a learner [26:17] Taking the path of most resistance [27:22] Becoming teachable [29:41] A debate on pride [31:54] Dealing with fear [35:02] Creating rituals and routines for performance [38:31] Dealing with failure [44:01] The final four questions   Resources Mentioned   Confusing the Enemy: The Cus D'Amato Story Prejudices by H.L. Mencken The Rise of Superman by Steven Kotler The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance by George Mumford   Continue Your High Performance Journey with Thane   The Up and Comers Show ThaneMarcus.com Instagram   Sponsor   Our sponsor today is Neurohacker Collective. Chairman, Jordan Greenhall has been on the show discussing Sovereignty and Medical Director, Dr. Daniel Stickler joined me to discuss unleashing your human potential through Epigenetics. I enjoy the products so much that I use them 5 out of 7 days. Whether it’s Qualia, Qualia Mind, or one of their new formulas, I find them to be completely revolutionary in the supplement world. It upgrades me as a person. If you wanna try Qualia, Qualia Mind, or any of their other products, go over to neurohacker.com, plug in the discount code ‘BOOMER’ and you’ll get 10% off your first order or 15% off any order if you subscribe. Get their free Foundational Guide to Neurohacking at Neurohacker.com   Disclaimer   This information is being provided to you for educational and informational purposes only. This is being provided as a self-help tool to help you understand your genetics, biodata and other information to enhance your performance. It is not medical or psychological advice. Virtuosity LLC is not a doctor. Virtuosity LLC is not treating, preventing, healing, or diagnosing disease. This information is to be used at your own risk based on your own judgment. For the full Disclaimer, please go to (Decodingsuperhuman.com/disclaimer). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This episode is brought to you by baseballcloud. iTunes  Stitcher   Google Play   Spotify   Summary:   In this episode of Ahead of the Curve, I welcome Steve Johnson, Founder/CEO of LegKickNation. We discuss Steve’s method of rejecting the model of the ‘teacher king’ in order to foster a curiosity-provoking learning environment in which students take responsibility for their own progress, as well as how he teaches methods to reach the state of ‘flow’. We also discuss the practical details of teaching in this new mode and ways to apply them to baseball.Show Notes: Guest: Steve Johnson, teacher and coach, Team Invictus  A love of learning brought Steve to teaching as well as coaching  “Teacher King” Traditional compartmentalized teaching a flawed system Without underlying, no purpose or autonomy Leaning on teachers too much diminishes student accountability The importance of curiosity  How do we foster curiosity? Community-based instruction facility Challenging kids in diverse areas, not just athletics Allowed to learn from failures as well as success Instructors serve as “bumpers in bowling alley”; helping and guiding but not controlling everything a kid is doing  How to create an environment where kids can be creative  More formal games these days, but less unstructured play has negative consequences  The importance of kids becoming independent problem-solvers  Flow: being ‘in the zone’, a sense of timelessness and selflessness Easier to achieve it in other sports because of the pace of baseball Maintaining singular focus Processing information in the box hampers performance Not being hung up on failures or self-consciousness  Micro-flow vs Macro-flow  Assessment of student athlete Physical, collecting data, seeing how kids learn and react  How does a student learn without the authority of the ‘teacher king’? The learning goals come from the kids  How to have kids express their desire honestly? Not having Mom and Dad around tends to help Establishing a rapport Advice for those wanting to open a similar facility? Membership vs per lesson model Vision of better you rather than just better ball player Culture of holistic learning rather than focus solely on baseball  LegkickNation How to allow a student to own their own learning? Knowing when to address something and when to back off A hands off approach allows kids to make their own learning decisions and goals Some kids need more direction than others Techniques to grow the ability to flow  The influence and importance of body language and psychology on performance Physical and Mental Coaching Constraints How to clean up a negative attack angle Using data, video External cues The possibilities of applying educationally-based books to athletics education 3 Key Points:     A teaching model not reliant on the ‘teacher king’ allows students to learn in a more profound way that gives them a deeper sense of responsibility for their own progress.  Encouraging kids’ natural curiosity is a fundamental part of helping them learn.   A teaching approach that focuses on flow and problem-solving in general can positively affect a student’s growth throughout their life, as well as in baseball. Tweetable Quotes: “To me, to rely on a singular voice [in the classroom] is handcuffing the kids growth.” - Steve Johnson (6:20)   “As a teacher, I take offense a lot of times, to other people trying to handcuff a kids curiosity, because it is that curiosity which leads to growth.” - Steve Johnson (7:00)   “The more he misses the more he’s going to learn from his failure, and the more he crushes baseball the more he’s going to learn from his successes.” - Steve Johnson (9:40)   “We’re trying to create an environment where kids can be creative; to succeed both inside and outside of baseball you need to be creative, an elite level problem-solver.” - Steve Johnson (13:20)   “The biggest thing for me is seeing how the kids learns and how the kid reacts to different things. I’m a big proponent of word association. One of the first questions I ask a kid is what’s the first word that comes to your mind when I say ‘hit it’. Ordinarily the kid will give me a whole bunch of information based on his answer. So if I say what’s the first word that comes to your mind when I say ‘hit it’ and the kid says “Don’t strike out”, or “Foul balls”, anything that has a negative connotation to it, I know right away that he’s been through the system. That’s one of the things I always look for, getting a gauge on how this kid is going to learn and how this kid is going to deal with being in an environment where there is no ‘teacher king’, where we’re all on the same level.” - Steve Johnson (29:40)   “Yes, I’m an instructor if you will, or I own the facility, but I’m right there with you, we’re all trying to figure it out together, so it’s not me over you.” - Steve Johnson (30:35)   “I think most people want to be part of something bigger than just the sport of baseball. I think most people want to be part of a community in which you’re like minded student athletes with caring instructors who are there for your best interests.” - Steve Johnson (39:20)   “We’re trying to create better learners, better problem solvers, and a by-product of that is that we’ve been able to create monsters.” - Steve Johnson (40:05) Resources Mentioned: CompeteAcademy.com #LegKickNation Books: ‘Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience’ by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ‘The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance’ by Steven Kotler ‘The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance’ by W. Timothy Gallwey Website and Social Media sites for the show  www.aotcpodcast.com Twitter @aotc_podcast Facebook Ahead of the Curve Coaches Facebook group Instagram aotc_podcast  

Learn a bit about motivation and philosophy from Angelo The Motivator. Angelo talks about his past in Nigeria, leaving as a political refugee moving to the U.S. Clevland, Boston then to Stockholm. Angelo brings up the book "The Inner Game of Tennis The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance By W. Timothy Gallwey" You can find him on YouTube and Peptalk. Song Sky lanterns by N I M Z.  

Anders K. Ericsson discovered the “10,000” hour rule. I had him on my podcast in 2016 to talk about peak performance. (One of my favorite topics.) And he broke down the steps every individual should follow to learn and MASTER a skill. Links and Resources Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Dr. K Anders Ericsson and Robert Poole Also Mentioned Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell The Polgar SIsters (the 3 best female Hungarian chess players ever) Laszlo Polgar (chess teacher who raised 3 chess prodigies his daughters) The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance Mozart - considered the most talented prodigy in music history, Anders disputes this Magnus Carlsen - the best chess player in the world at age 12 Michelangelo Picasso - one of the best painters of his time Andy Warhol - in the 1950s he was a master illustrator The Boston Marathon I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: Twitter Facebook Linkedin Instagram See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Anders K. Ericsson discovered the "10,000" hour rule. I had him on my podcast in 2016 to talk about peak performance. (One of my favorite topics.) And he broke down the steps every individual should follow to learn and MASTER a skill. Links and Resources Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Dr. K Anders Ericsson and Robert Poole Also Mentioned Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell The Polgar SIsters (the 3 best female Hungarian chess players ever) Laszlo Polgar (chess teacher who raised 3 chess prodigies his daughters) The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance Mozart - considered the most talented prodigy in music history, Anders disputes this Magnus Carlsen - the best chess player in the world at age 12 Michelangelo Picasso - one of the best painters of his time Andy Warhol - in the 1950s he was a master illustrator The Boston Marathon I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.   Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify   Follow me on Social Media: Twitter Facebook Linkedin Instagram ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn

Adventitious takes on guns, gun control and silencers.  Using Pew research on Police & guns, we talk concealed carry, bullseye target shooting, how shooting is Zen, and how silencers are a good thing. Links from this episode: - Pew Research Center: Behind the Badge - MILLER: The gun-show loophole myth - An Open Letter to Liberal Friends on Gun Control - Get Into Bullseye Shooting - Browning BuckMark Pistols - The Inner Game Of Everything: Why Is A Four-Decade-Old Tennis Book Still A Self-Help Sensation? - The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance * - Walther PPK/S - Beretta 92 FS - Murder and homicide rates before and after gun bans - H.R.367 - Hearing Protection Act of 2017 - ‘Humble, spiritual’ armed motorist saved trooper from attack on Arizona highway - NRA: Gun Safety Rules

On this episode, we talked with Alan Brown – a productivity coach, best-selling author of the book Zen and the Art of Productivity, and the host of Crusher TV. Alan helps people get more things done in less time and with less stress through smart productivity and brain hacks. We chatted about his experience in overcoming a learning disability and addiction, how he catapulted himself from an average ad executive to a successful entrepreneur, and how brain hacks played an important part in all these. Today, he shares some techniques to get you from planning to execution. Join us as we discuss: Alan's interesting background which involved dealing with ADHD and turning it into an advantage that accelerated his career (2:42). What motivated him to create the ADD Crusher and eventually the Crusher TV community (4:34). What a brain hack is according to Alan and his thoughts about it (5:43). Alan's thoughts on different coaching approaches and what works (7:35). What an inner game is and the role it plays in one's own productivity (9:05; 22:06. Alan's views on setting boundaries, awareness, deep work, and how these all affect one's inner game (11:11). The importance of well-being to fuel the body and brain (18:28). Alan's low-bandwidth but high-impact sampling of brain hacks that will help you maximize your productivity (25:31). Relevant Links: http://www.crushertv.com/ (Crusher TV) https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Game-Tennis-Classic-Performance/dp/0679778314/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1489557052&sr=8-1&keywords=The%20Inner%20Game%20of%20Tennis (The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by W. Timothy Gallwey | Amazon) https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Spiritual-Laws-Success-Pocketbook/dp/1878424602/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1489559022&sr=8-1&keywords=7%20secrets%20of%20spiritual%20success (The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Pocketbook Guide to Fulfilling Your by Deepak Chopra | Amazon) https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Hacking-Change-Your-Good/dp/1501105655/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1489559548&sr=8-1&keywords=mindhacking (Mind Hacking: How to Change Your Mind for Good in 21 Days Hardcover by John Hargrave | Amazon) https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted/dp/1455586692 (Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World Hardcover by Cal Newport | Amazon) https://twitter.com/RealCrusherTV (Crusher TV (@realcrusherTV) | Twitter) This episode is brought to you by Sanebox. We all know how email can be a huge timekiller. Sanebox can help you cope with email overload with its many features like SaneNews, SaneReminders and SaneVacation among many others. Signup using the link http://sanebox.com/vardy (http://sanebox.com/vardy) and get $25 credit + free trial for a new account. Bring the sanity back into your email and get started with Sanebox today. I had a great time chatting with Alan Brown. If you want to hear more from him, check out this bonus episode where we talked about https://www.patreon.com/posts/8116287/ (reframing time). You can also show your support by leaving us a rating and review on the podcast platform you're using - we use your feedback to improve the podcast further. Thanks for tuning in! Until next time remember to stop guessing...and start going.

What does it take to be a winning youth coach? Listen in as James Leath shares stories and discusses his journey to becoming a successful sports coach. James is currently getting his masters in mental sports psychology, has coached youth sports for many years, and is a student of all aspects of sports performance.  James started coaching when his 8th grade coach had to leave the team, so James took over and coached his own 8th grade team!  James played college football and played for the Los Angeles Extreme in the XFL.  James is married and works in sales. Website: jamesleath.com Twitter: @jamesleath Listen Now: Listen in ITunes: Itunes link Listen in Stitcher: Stitcher link   Coaching/Leadership Quote ‘Spend less time in the strategy books, and more time in how to talk to kids' My ‘Cringe' Moment Not being organized When he was just out of college - Not being on time actually got him fired from a coaching job. Coaching AH-HA Moment HUGE IDEA #1 Keep it simple; Run less plays.  Learned from a coach that ran only 1 formation - that coach only lost 3 games in 4 years.  When you simplify formations and the kids don't have to think about where to line up - the kid's confidence and success skyrockets. 'If your goal is to freeze an athlete - give them a whole bunch of stuff to think about'  Give them only 2 decisions to make on a play, and you're OK as long as you only choose 1 of these 2(even if it's the wrong choice, because we can teach you how to choose better).  I'm only going to be upset if you choose something other than 1 of these 2 choices. Teaching Children & Keeping it Fun HUGE IDEA #2 2 absolute foundational books: 'Teaching to Change Lives' - by Dr. Howard Hendricks 'How Children Succeed' - by Paul Tough Remember to keep the kids accountable - while you love the kids, you are ultimately their mentor and coach, not their peer friend 'Spend less time in the strategy books, and more time in how to talk to kids' Everything in short bursts - John Wooden would talk in 20 second bursts How to Improve my Youth Practices: Don't scrimmage very much.  Only the best athletes touch the ball in scrimmages, plus it's hard to coach in this environment. When teaching  a skill - try to find a way to make the focus the technique, not the result.  So for basketball - teach them against a wall to try to work on form and hit a crack on the wall.  Then add steps that eventually progress into actually shooting at the basket.  This process builds their confidence and makes the focus perfecting their technique. Coaching Resources Youtube Reach out to your local high school basketball coach 'The Talent Code' by Daniel Coyle Inspiring Story James and his wife have fostered kids, so some of his athletes have actually stayed with him.  James had one kid who stayed with him for a while in 6th grade - that kid in 11th grade was about to play in state championships and called James up at 11 o'clock at night to talk - very cool. The One that Got Away Coaching girls basketball - He smacked his plastic clipboard and it shattered in 20 pieces.  He was upset about the girls not getting rebounds - then afterwards he thought about it and he had never spent any time teaching them how to rebound. Coaching/Leadership Motivation Book: anything by John Wooden Book: The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by W. Timothy Gallwey – Pete Carroll uses this all the time to instill mental toughness. Parting Advice Pay less attention to strategy and more attention to fundamentals Ready to be an Awesome Youth Coach? Sign up for our free weekly newsletter: