Bob Karel

I am a husband, father, cyclist, adventurer, basketball guy, non-profit & business catalyst with an interest in how things work.

[Art of Life 🦋 @Art0fLife_]

This video will change your life:

[Fastbreak Hoops @FastbreakHoops5]

That change of pace though 😮‍💨

[Bob Karel @KarelAdvisory]

Truth. It��s the same in business.

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

“There’s nothing old school about holding each other accountable, having an incredible work ethic, being incredibly competitive, being willing to sacrifice for the betterment of the group."

Calling discipline and accountability “old school” is often just an excuse to avoid them.
Winning values never go out of style.

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

There is a reason why @CoachJayWright started EVERY practice at Villanova with jump stops and shot fakes

Playing off two, and under control at the rim, is a cheat code for good hoopers

[Joe Haefner | Breakthrough Basketball @BreakthruBball]

When you're in the lab, working on your "bag" this offseason, remember...

- 46.5% of your shots come with no dribble (catch and shoot)
- 22% of your shots come with 1 or 2 dribbles.

And don't forget, the more dribbles you take, the lower your shooting percentage gets.

No Dribbles - 1.19 Points Per Shot
1 Dribble - 1.10 Points Per Shot
2 Dribbles - 1.01 Points Per Shot
3+ Dribbles - 0.97 Points Per Shot

With a side note, layups are by far the most efficient shots in basketball, so use that dribble to get to the rim if you need to!

But becoming a complete scorer isn’t about collecting more moves.

It’s about developing the shooting, ball control, footwork, decision-making, and finishing skills to create the right shot without wasting movement or dribbles.

This data was taken from the 25-26 NBA season. It barely changes season to season.

[Unfiltered 🏴‍☠️🐐 @withloveyemiboy]

Push through the hard times.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Steve Jobs literally gave a 10-minute masterclass on building a company (better than $100K MBA):

1. Someone has to be the keeper of the vision. There is a staggering amount of work in building anything, and when you have to walk a thousand miles, the first step looks impossibly far. Jobs saw his job as the person who constantly reminds everyone that the goal is real, not a mirage, and that each step gets you closer. In a thousand small and occasionally large ways, the vision has to be repeated, or people lose faith it exists.

2. The honeymoon ends fast, and then the world only cares what you produce. After six months, Jobs told his team that all the goodwill they got just for existing was old news. You can point to the lawsuit, the setbacks, the this and that, but the bottom line is the world does not care. It cares about what you ship and how timely you bring it to market. From here on out you get judged like every other startup, by your product, not your story.

3. The most important job of a leader is recruiting. Jobs says it plainly: hiring is the thing he considers most important about a role like his. He didn't want seasoned professionals so much as people who were insanely great at what they did, who had the latest understanding of the technology at their fingertips and the passion to bring it to millions.

4. A great team becomes self-policing about who it lets in. Once you assemble a core group of ten genuinely great people, something powerful happens: they start guarding the bar themselves. They will not tolerate letting mediocre people into the group. The quality defends itself, which is why getting those first ten right matters more than almost anything.

5. Start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. This is the mistake Jobs says he made more than anyone in the room, and he has the scar tissue to prove it. You cannot start with a piece of awesome technology and then hunt for where to sell it. You start with what incredible benefit you can give the customer and where you can take them, and only then figure out the technology to get there.

6. You have to find what you love, and not settle. Your work fills a huge part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it, keep looking, and don't settle. Like any matter of the heart, you'll know when you find it, and it only gets better over the years.

7. They didn't set out to start a company. They just wanted the thing to exist. There was no personal computer in 1975, so Jobs and Wozniak built one because they wanted one and none existed. They made it for themselves, showed it to friends, and the friends all wanted one. They started building by hand until it consumed all their spare time, so they decided to manufacture a hundred just to stop. That is how Apple began. Not a plan to start a company, a circle that kept getting bigger.

8. "I want to make lots of money" is not a good enough reason. When people tell Jobs they want to start a company, he asks why. If the answer is to make lots of money, he tells them to forget it. He has barely seen anyone succeed that way. The ones who succeed often didn't even want to start a company. They just had an idea they needed to get out into the world, and had to build a company because no one else would listen.

9. You lead by example, because everyone is watching. You can say anything you want, but people watch extremely carefully what senior management actually does. When something isn't quite good enough, do you stop and make it great, or do you just ship it? Everyone sees which choice you make in the hard moments, what decisions you make and what values you hold, and that, not your speeches, is what permeates a company of thousands.

10. Focus doesn't mean saying yes. It means saying no. Jobs kept the organization simple and did very few things well. And focusing is hard precisely because it means deciding not to do a huge number of things so you can pour everything into a handful. Most people think focus is about what you take on. He understood it's about what you refuse.

11. Let people do the best work of their lives. Everyone wants to do something great, to be excited about what they're building, and to be recognized when they nail it. So Jobs tried to build a place where people could do their best work and then get it in front of 25 million customers. Knowing millions of people will use the thing you're making, and that the whole industry will copy it if it works, is enormously motivating.

12. Don't lose the war because you won a few battles. Late in the clip Jobs gets blunt about a danger he sees creeping in: losing the startup hustle. If you zoom out, it would be a shame to lose the war because you were busy winning small battles. He felt people were concentrating too hard on minor fights and losing perspective on the real one. And the war, he says, is survival, not running out of money before you get your product to market.

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

5 minute ball handling warmup from @PureSweat to add to your daily workout 🔥

[lynk @lynk0x]

This is what your soul needs, not Dubai.

[Mastery Mindset @_masterymindset]

The cheat code to life.

[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

In 2001, Walter Cronkite appeared on the David Letterman show and shared his thoughts.

[Daniel Pink @DanielPink]

Give me 57 seconds and I’ll give you 5 science based techniques to increase your productivity.

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Just watched Steven Bartlett get absolutely SCHOOLED by Dr. Boz in 6 minutes that will probably age-reversing-pilled half of the internet today

She looked him dead in the eye and said:
“I’ve been practicing 25 years.
Parkinson’s has 3,500 of my patients.
I have ZERO.
Because Parkinson’s only wins when you let the trash pile up in your brain for decades… and then act shocked when the diagnosis hits.”

Her exact words:
“The slow death of your brain doesn’t announce itself.
It starts with:
- the belly fat that won’t shift
- joints that ache “for no reason”
- brain fog at 3 pm
- joy slowly draining from life
- waking up tired even after 8 hours”

That’s not “getting old”.
That’s trash in your brain you still have time to take out.

Then she roasted Steven’s eating pattern live on air:
“Pasta + late dinner?
One bite after 6 pm costs you like TEN bites at breakfast when you’re over 40.
Your insulin is still screaming at 3 am.
That’s how you age in fast-forward.”

Her fix?
Dead simple:
- Finish eating by 6-7 pm (non-negotiable as you age)
- Give your body 16+ hours without food regularly
- Trigger autophagy = your brain’s trash disposal service
- Watch mood, energy, focus, and waistline transform in months

She ended with this line that gave me chills:
“At 54 I want to be as sharp, energetic and alive as Steven is right now.
Most people are decaying.
I want to be accelerating.”

If you only watch ONE health clip this year, make it these 6 minutes.
Your 54-year-old self is begging you to hit play.

Who’s committing to their last bite before 7 pm tonight?

(Just sharing a public conversation between Steven Bartlett & Dr. Annette Bosworth, MD — no medical advice, just a wake-up call everyone’s talking about)

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Tom Brady reveals the brutally honest talk he had with a Michigan sports psychologist that turned him from a benchwarmer into the GOAT.

Brady's transformation started with one change: the way he thought.

"I sit on the bench my first year, and I really had—I would call it—a lot of self-defeating attitudes and behaviors. I always had an excuse. 'Coach doesn't want me in there.'"

"I had a sports psychologist. His name was Greg Harden. I would go into his office every Tuesday, and he would say, 'Tom, I like you. You work hard, but you have a shitty attitude.'"

"'How about you start worrying about what you can control and stop talking about the other quarterbacks, stop talking about the coaches not putting you in.'"

"If they give you three reps, you do the best with the three you get. Quit bitching about you only getting three or you going in there with the backup receivers. No one cares.'"

"'You treat practice like it's a game. If you throw a touchdown in the two-minute in practice, you celebrate like it's the game.'"

Brady never approached it that way before. Then "sure enough" everything changed.

"Mmy energy started getting way better. I was bringing juice; I had the right attitude."

"Then all of a sudden, I'm bringing the juice, man. Every day, boom."

"That [mindshift] really helped me get better."

The road to 7 Super Bowl rings didn't start on the practice field; it started in that very office…

[Fastbreak Hoops @FastbreakHoops5]

Michael Jordan remastered in 4K 😮‍💨🐐

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Kobe Bryant once said:

“Everyone wants to be a beast. Everyone wants to be the best. But very few people are willing to do what it actually takes. Because what it takes is boring. It is waking up at 4:00 AM. It is shooting the same shot a thousand times. It is watching the film when you are tired. People fall in love with the result, but they hate the process. You have to fall in love with the boredom. You have to fall in love with the repetition.

If you can find joy in the mundane work that no one else sees, the lights will eventually shine on you.”

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Time is short and can easily Change!

[Smithsonian’s NMAAHC @NMAAHC]

#OnThisDay, The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law. The law gave the federal government a new role in desegregating schools and other public facilities. #ANationsStory #APeoplesJourney