Adam_Cunliffe7

Coach @StanningleyRLC @OfficialBullsRL Academy/Reserves. Cofounder @tackleuni Rugby League IQ

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Peyton Manning shares what separated the best leaders he played with.

"The best teams I played on - our best players practiced the hardest every day. They set the example every day."

"They were sitting in meetings, taking notes, paying attention. Our young players are like, 'Holy cow - this is how they do it here. I'm gonna take notes. I'm gonna pay attention.'"

Culture is caught, not taught.

The best players lead by example. They set the standard and everyone else rises to meet it.

"When we got on the practice field - full speed. Taking snaps full speed. Walk-throughs. Everybody's intense. Calling audibles like it's a game."

"Talented players that are unselfish and set the example in the building as to what it's gonna take - that's critical."

The best players don't just perform on game day.

They set the standard every single day in the building.

That's how culture gets built.
(🎥 Notre Dame)

[Adam_Cunliffe7 @ACunliffe7]

@TheWiganWay @_LT23 Take a look at Rugby League IQ https://t.co/3Gl0rxJjRN coach-led but similar intent!

[Adam_Cunliffe7 @ACunliffe7]

@MikeMeehallWood @NRLBackyardBets Big one on completion rates is that Opta include last tackle errors - but an error here often means little different to a tackle and handover. Teams play differently as a result!

One thing for CR% might be to look at floors and ceilings in its impact - diminishing returns etc.

[claire de lune @ClaireMPLS]

i asked @StephenCurry30 about how it feels to be in the flow state, which he seems to get to at a different level than everyone else:

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The fastest woman alive flew to rural Australia to chase down amateurs on a grass field for $27,500.

The Stawell Gift is a 148-year-old handicap sprint held every Easter in a town of 6,000 people in western Victoria. 120 meters. On grass. Uphill. Lanes separated by rope, not paint. The twist: slower runners get up to a 10-meter head start. The world champion starts at zero.

Richardson gave away 10 meters to her closest competitor. Some runners started 25 meters ahead. She had to close that gap over 120 meters of grass while running uphill. She won her heat in 13.8 seconds.

In 144 years of the men's race, only two men have ever won from scratch. In the women's race (started 1989), only two women. The handicap system is specifically designed so the fastest runner should lose.

The race started in 1878 at the end of the Australian gold rush. The distance, 120 meters, comes from the gap between two pubs in Sheffield, England, where professional sprinting began. Competitors historically trained by chasing kangaroos.

737 athletes entered this year. Prize money: $40,000 AUD. Last year they paid Australia's teenage sprint star Gout Gout $50,000 just to show up. He got eliminated in the semis. The handicap ate him alive.

Richardson said it felt like being a kid again, playing tag. The woman who runs 10.65 described the hardest race on her 2026 calendar as "playing rabbit."

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

If you come across someone asserting there is "no scientific evidence" that social media is causing harm, please send them this link.

We lay out seven lines of evidence, including RCTs, natural experiments, and testimony from victims & perpetrators of harm

https://t.co/lZsNalKZE5

[Julian Edelman @Edelman11]

3.28 #ToAllWhoCelebrate

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Jack Dorsey on what he learned about culture from 49ers coach Bill Walsh

When Bill Walsh joined the 49ers, they were the worst team in the NFL. Within three years, they were Super Bowl Champions.

In his book, The Score Takes Care of Itself, he writes:

“Winners act like winners before they’re winners…The culture precedes positive results. It doesn’t get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they’re champions; they have a winning standard of performance before their winners.”

And he provides six guidelines for establishing a standard of performance:

1. Start with a comprehensive recognition of reverence for and identification of the specific actions and attitudes relevant to your team’s performance and production.

2. Be clarion clear in communicating your expectation of high effort and execution of your Standard of Performance. Like water, many decent individuals will seek lower ground if left to their own inclinations. In most cases you are the one who inspires and demands they go upward rather than settle for the comfort of doing what comes easily. Push them beyond their comfort zone; expect them to give extra effort.

3. Let all know that you expect them to possess the highest level of expertise in their area of responsibility.

4. Beyond standards and methodology, teach your beliefs, values, and philosophy. An organism is not an inanimate object. It is a living organism that you must nurture, guide, and strengthen.

5. Teach “connection and extension.” An organization filled with individuals who are “independent contractors” unattached to one another is a team with little interior cohesion and strength.

6. Make the expectations and metrics of competence that you demand in action and attitudes from personnel the new reality of your organization. You must provide the model for that new standard in your own actions and attitude.

Twitter and Square founder Jack Dorsey encourages anyone thinking about leading teams or building a company to read this book:

“What’s important about this is that as you start building a team, you need to set expectations around how people need to perform in the company—how people need to act in the company. And these can be very simple things, but without that, you are rutterless—you will react to the outside. And if you react to the outside, you are building someone else’s roadmap and you’re building someone else’s dream instead of your own.”

Video source: @ycombinator (2013)

[Daniel Abrahams @DanAbrahams77]

Richie McCaw, one of the greatest sporting captains ever has a quiet moment to reflect on his in-game cues…

What do you notice about these cues? What’s a common thread, a common theme?

They’re all pretty controllable.

No ‘complete my passes’; no scoring; no win all my tackles…those kinds of performance objectives being out of a player’s control.

In Chapter Four of my new book, Compete, I introduce ambitious competitors to a Match Script. A Match Script consists of in-game cues that are specific, controllable, and positive. A Match Script aids the mental skills of Attention, Intensity, and Intent…

Compete is the culmination of twenty years working as a registered and qualified sport psychologist…with some of the best players and coaches in the world. Coaches such as Eddie Howe, Arne Slot, and Eddie Jones.

𝐏𝐫𝐞-𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟎% 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐇𝐚𝐰𝐤𝐬𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 (𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐰𝐤𝐬𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫…𝐚 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬)

[Coach Liam @contact_enjoyer]

Rugby league isn’t a simple game. You’ve been lied to.

To watch the whole video of how Brisbane rolled down field from kick off to score in last year’s NRL Grand Final, try out my new RUGBY LEAGUE IQ group on Skool: https://t.co/z2Ls5kMOxL

[Adam_Cunliffe7 @ACunliffe7]

@TonganAussie @CamDonDuncan Defence was scattered from the previous play. Winger had the centre opposite him, what did you want him to do?

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

In 2019, MIT professor Patrick Winston gave a legendary 1-hour lecture called “How to Speak.”

It has 18M+ views for a reason.

His frameworks:
• Your ideas are like your children
• The 5-minute rule for job talks
• Why jokes fail at the start

15 lessons on communication:

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

https://t.co/vS2W6qhu7w

[Dylan Wiliam @dylanwiliam]

Lovely example of the application of hinge questions to coaching in rugby: https://t.co/4ixUgaLc7n. Thank you @Mr_Titley!

[Shawn Myszka @MovementMiyagi]

"The rationale for unopposed versus opposed practice tasks in sports is a critical consideration for coaches. In this paper, we presented an ecological dynamics justification for the predominant use of opposed practice tasks with reference to their potential for transfer to competition."

Get into our '25 paper, 'The value of opposed and unopposed practice,' here:

https://t.co/j9k3hgLI5n

[Coach Dan Casey @CoachDanCasey]

Exposure to Sprinting can unlock an athlete's genetic potential.

Train for High Performance, not just mental toughness.

[Kyle Brandt @KyleBrandt]

Your name is sacred. Protect it and ask people to speak it properly.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“Wasting your time doubting whether you’re going to be successful is pointless.”

— Kobe Bryant

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

More Eileen Gu Gold 🥇

“I did everything I could possibly do to prepare… even if the results didn’t come I know I did my very best.”

The spirit of a confident competitor.

[DukeBallMinisterOfPropoganda @DukePropoganda]

Accountability and coaching from players in the halftime locker room is a championship team quality. Keep it rolling @DukeMBB