Ken | Mental & Perf Coach

Mental Perf Coach, Psych Consult
Masters of Applied Positive Psych @ UPenn '24

Vision, resilience, & grit are the keys to brilliance

Ex: @QoRGaming; HC(Val)

[Ken | Mental & Perf Coach @KenEmpowered]

Saying goodbye to @QorGaming as I tackle new challenges & life changes on my plate. They demand my attention, for now.

Grateful to have worked with the team. Confident they'll rise up into Challengers. Forward we go😊🔥

Thank you🙏@snarly_val @cheatcodeVAL @xFlippsy @tdawggVAL @9nerve @QorCreator @soupberries

[Sean Gares @seangares]

VCT basically just adopted the CS circuit model and I think that's MASSIVE.

Open qualifiers mean spots have to be earned, which is how you get real storylines on broadcast. More tournaments, traveling LANs, more matches for viewers. Players who grind get their shot.... and they kept partnership structure. This sounds like the best of both worlds!

wp Rito❤️

[Leo Faria @lhfaria]

The ALL NEW VCT:
- Everything is a tournament
- New Cups
- Open qualifiers for every single event
- Traveling roadshows multiple times a year
- Total of 20+ tournaments visiting 16+ cities
- Competition back in home regions
- Substantial revenue accessible to all teams
- Revamped partnership system

A lot more details coming later this year!

[Ken | Mental & Perf Coach @KenEmpowered]

@spaceghost Glad you survived. That is outer galaxy levels of unhinged

[blue @bluewmist]

My therapist taught me to interrupt my anxious thinking with thoughts like:
"What if things work out" and "What if all my hard work pays off?"

So, I'm passing that onto you wherever you are, whatever you're leaving, or whomever you're becoming.

[Jess🐐 @JessGOAT]

I studied human behavior for many years and this mentality is what most limits growth in a person more than anything else.

It's called 'association'. Where someone can't do or be something else without believing it needs to be associated to someone/something else.

Relationships become codependent to the point where you feel you can't go out with friends without feeling like the other person should be there. Or, you set that expectation socially so friends begin to ASK where your partner is if they aren't with you.

Then all of a sudden it feels 'weird' to go out for coffee or with your friends without them. Then at some point you don't really know what a normal day looks like if they aren't in it. Your identity isn't YOURS anymore, it's 'ours'.

In criminology it is extremely common for offenders to say that they "don't know any different" etc. In order to give that individual a chance to 'be their own person' it is imperative they work to remove associations that limit their own agency.

It should NEVER feel weird to go an adventure that you want, by yourself or without an association. Even if it's just to go for coffee or a hike or some hobby that makes you happy.

The moment you can't do A without B, you know that life has become conditional, rather than YOUR life. May they enjoy finding themselves and seeing what that looks like without the guilty feeling of association.

(Association is important in creating bonds, but when it limits agency and individuality it becomes almost a condition of daily life and is not healthy)

[Leila Hormozi @LeilaHormozi]

There are two types of people in the world: Those who get bitter and emotional as soon as they don't get what they want from life, and those who choose to get better and reinvent themselves until they get what they want.

[blue @bluewmist]

The fastest way to attract what's meant for you is to express yourself so honestly that everything misaligned falls away on its own.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

You don't need to worry about progressing slowly. You need to worry about climbing the wrong mountain.

[Ken | Mental & Perf Coach @KenEmpowered]

Its never too late to reinvent yourself or make life changes. Age rarely matters, and new seasons are always possible

[blue @bluewmist]

to my 25 - 35 year olds, you have reached the age where people around you are starting to give up on themselves because they think it’s too late. don’t let that energy rub off on you. it’s not too late.

[ELITE MASCULINE @MasculineM7]

The fastest way to se someone's emotional maturity is to..

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Jeremy Renner: "People need to suffer. It is an actual requirement of life. It is the fiber, the DNA of love. Real love and true love, in perpetuity, can't exist without suffering."

[Ken | Mental & Perf Coach @KenEmpowered]

@CoachYip Was a fun match to watch!

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Andrew Huberman shares a game-changer from a top psychoanalyst: "It's all internal." Finish a marathon first? No one drips dopamine in your ear—you generate it yourself.

Set milestones just beyond comfort, hit them, pause to register the win → dopamine surges, converts to epinephrine/adrenaline, fuels the next push.

Success isn't external validation; it's engineering your own reward circuit—one deliberate win at a time creates unstoppable momentum.

What's a recent milestone you registered internally that gave you that energy surge? Share it.

[Ken | Mental & Perf Coach @KenEmpowered]

@hubermanlab Andrew, what methods (including a team) do you use to post on social media but limit consumption?

[Padideh Goodspeed @padigoodspeed]

The first rule of success is concentration. To bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.

— Willian Mathews

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

People love to cite the examples of high-performers who thrive/d on poor conditions. They are the junkyard dogs of health & performance. Few exist now in elite anything. Very unlikely you are one of them. Build resilience but use tools that work, especially if you’re not gifted.

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

How can we turn our desired behaviors into default behaviors?

(James Clear on The Knowledge Project)

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

If you're in a hard place in your work or life, choose one big problem to solve.

Focus all of your energy on that *one problem.*

Solving one thing starts a positive flywheel that gets you unstuck....like a wheel spinning in mud that finally gets some traction.

Get Traction.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

A simple rule for life that rarely fails:

Optimize for enthusiasm. Make as many choices as you can that leave you feeling energetic and interested. Pay attention to when you have the urge to pursue or participate in something and do more of it.

[Rox @RoxCodes]

Hiring another senior, full-stack, founding engineer

Name your salary, and if you're legendary, I'll do everything I can to meet it

If you want to build cool shit, with huge creators

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