Matheus Silva

Son, husband, father. Marathonist. Fascinated by sports, enthusiastic of med tech. Trust on “I care, we care”, “I can, we can.”, “make it good, make it better”.

[The Fisherman | 🥩🇨🇱 @Thefishermanm]

Rio de Janeiro em 1920 🇧🇷.

Você pode não acredita, mas era o RJ.

[EBL @EBL2017]

If you are going to do something, do it right, or don’t do it at all.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Most people are getting this wrong. It's not being coached hard or soft...it's a coach saying the right thing at the right time to get them out of a spiral. And focus them on what matters.

When you're in that spiral, your attention scatters. You're replaying mistakes, drifting into the future, losing the moment.

Frese disrupted it in two ways.

First, she walked directly to Okanawa, locked eyes, and forced her to focus and connect with her in the present.

Second, she gave confidence AND agency.

"I believe in you...But you've got to want this moment." This isn't my story..."

She didn't say, "What are you doing...get your head in the game." Those feed the spiral, giving your brain evidence that it's all going wrong. Akin to telling a nervous person to "just relax."

In our lowest moments, we need a signal that someone still sees what we're capable of. And then gives us the agency and challenge to go get it.

She scored 7 points in the third quarter after that exchange, added 6 more in the fourth, and finished with a team-high 21.

Maryland still lost. But Okananwa showed up.

It was a brilliant display of snapping a player out of everything scattering towards catastrophe:

"Really what that was, was a regroup moment for myself and her telling me she believed in me. Sometimes that's really all you need to hear."

Research backs this up.

Psychologists at the University of Amsterdam found that whatever emotional state coaches expressed predicted their players' emotional state and subsequent performance.

Angry coaches produced frustrated players who made more errors.

Another study of basketball players found that low to moderate anger targeted at a specific problem could improve performance.

Raw, undirected intensity made things worse. Targeted intensity that was aimed at something solvable worked.

Texas A&M football coach Mike Elko put it this way: "My job is to be calm and collected when they're frantic. My job is to create intensity when they're not intense. My job is to always be opposite the moment."

The leader's job is the counterbalance.

Frese saw her star's attention drifting when the moment called for focus and controlled fire.

So she brought the intensity Okananwa wasn't generating on her own.

Most people see the intensity and think that's the important takeaway. It's not.

It's just one tool used in a specific moment.

Frese said it herself after the game: "You can't have those conversations if you don't have a relationship with them."

It's the relationship underneath that gives you the ability to use the right tool at the right time.

Sometimes that tool is direct eye contact and I believe in you.

Other times, it's taking a calm breath with and a reminder that I value you as a human, not just an athlete.

Or, as I had one athlete request one time, "Just cuss me out in the last 400. Tell me it's worth dying for..."

Sometimes you pull out the crazy if that disrupts the cycle.

Know your athlete. Build the relationship. Then know when to disrupt the cycle and focus them on the work at hand.

[EBL @EBL2017]

When the process is elite, there is no failure.

There are simply steps to success

[Matheus Silva @MaTG0]

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[Coach Dan Casey @CoachDanCasey]

Christian McCaffery trains like a Sprinter.

There’s a reason you should run Track.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Orchestra changed this man's entire song just to prank him on his Birthday

[Matheus Silva @MaTG0]

@ramit Dear Ramit, to me it is not a matter of being fair or not but rather what they can achieve together.

If it would be at my case/home, my beloved girl would not pay the rent and we would focus on paying the 78k debit.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Running can get complicated. But for most, it should be simple:
1. Lots of Easy
2. Occasionally Moderate
3. Sometimes Hard
4. Do work that is feel good fast

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[Augusto Cury @augustocury]

Os filhos não precisam de pais perfeitos, mas de pais presentes, que saibam ouvir, compreender e se conectar com o coração dos seus filhos.

Vamos juntos construir uma nova geração emocionalmente saudável.

Forte abraço,
Augusto Cury

#augustocury #amemse #gestaodaemocao #família

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

No amount of success is enough.

If you crave external validation, you’ll always want more: more money; more fame; more followers.

Behavioral scientists call this cycle of endless desire hedonic adaptation.

Long before that, the Buddha called this suffering.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Leadership simplified:

Hire good people.
Give them the tools to succeed.
Provide them the security to take calculated risks.
Get out of their way.
Let go of over-controlling.
Support, don't thwart.
Cultivate intrinsic motivation.
Trust them to do their job.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

How do you help your child become a champion?

Chill out!

Here are 9 lessons that I wish every parent knew when it came to supporting their child’s athletic and academic pursuits: https://t.co/eLKXjqoBp8

[Osku Partonen @Coach_Osku]

Coaching is science.
Coaching is art.

One without the other? Incomplete. 🧵

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Listening to your body is a skill.

If we’re constantly checking external feedback (i.e. a GPS watch) it disrupts our experience.

Not just in running, but in life. We can’t outsource all of our decision making. We lose a feel for the thing itself.
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[Matheus Silva @MaTG0]

@elonmusk AppStore Germany

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

For the love of the game.

[Moses Kagan @moseskagan]

Young people just starting your careers:

When you meet with colleagues, and especially if they are senior to you:

- Bring something with which to take notes (pad & pen, tablet, whatever)

- Write down everything you are asked to do

- After the meeting, go & do each & every one of those things, to the best of your ability

The above will put you ahead of ~90% of your peers.

[Naval @naval]

Acquiring knowledge is easy, the hard part is knowing what to apply and when.

That’s why all true learning is “on the job.”

Life is lived in the arena.

[Naval @naval]

A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought - they must be earned.