Paddy Steinfort

Performance Advisor 📈 Ex NBA, NFL, MLB, FIFA World Cup 🏆 I write about performance science @Substack for people who live with pressure 👉 🧠 👈

[Paddy Steinfort @Paddys_posts]

How it started: How it’s going:

[Paddy Steinfort @Paddys_posts]

I'm under pressure right now. You probably are too.

I know because pressure is higher than ever for everyday people, and it's not going away.

So I've written a book on it - it covers how pressure works, what it does to your brain, and what you can do about it

It's based on decades of seeing and using what works for the very best pressure pros I work with, across a bunch of different high stakes arenas around the world.

You can find out more and order your copy now at https://t.co/WcvRW29uQb

Because even the best can't get through pressure on their own - this book is here to help.

(speaking of which... HUGE shoutout to @penguinrandom @Avery_Books and everyone else who's helped get this thing out into the world!)

[Paddy Steinfort @Paddys_posts]

I'm under pressure right now. You probably are too.

I know because pressure is higher than ever for everyday people, and it's not going away.

So I've written a book on it - it covers how pressure works, what it does to your brain, and what you can do about it

It's based on decades of seeing and using what works for the very best pressure pros I work with, across a bunch of different high stakes arenas around the world.

You can find out more and order your copy now at https://t.co/WcvRW29uQb

Because even the best can't get through pressure on their own - this book is here to help.

(speaking of which... HUGE shoutout to @penguinrandom @Avery_Books and everyone else who's helped get this thing out into the world!)

[Paddy Steinfort @Paddys_posts]

@Electrarythm Brilliant 🎯

[Paddy Steinfort @Paddys_posts]

A dog wrote this obviously

[NBC News @NBCNews]

A surprising new study finds that people who sleep near their dogs don’t experience disrupted sleep. If anything, the University of Toronto researchers discovered, we humans are the ones disturbing our dogs’ sleep. https://t.co/fCVVc4vwE8

[Paddy Steinfort @Paddys_posts]

@MVP_Mindset Great distinction here 👏🏼

[Paddy Steinfort @Paddys_posts]

Stephen A Smith makes fun of / laughs at Lane Johnson retiring to focus on his mental health

Absolute POS 💩 Disgusting. Dirtbag.

[Paddy Steinfort @Paddys_posts]

@DanHanzus Absolutely disgusting

[Paddy Steinfort @Paddys_posts]

GREAT post - attention is everything when you're under pressure 🎯 👀

[Daniel Abrahams @DanAbrahams77]

Five Ways Attention Shapes Sporting Excellence…

One…
Perhaps the most exciting quality in developing elite sport is attention. Attention influences engagement. Attention mediates learning. Attention drives performance. Attention is the relay station for the emergence and execution of
so many athletic & playing abilities

Two…
Coaches would do well to ask players to pay attention to their attention. Such a request might
be worthy of an activity in and of itself - a small-sided game to pay attention to attention…a keep-ball to pay attention to attention. Attention is the universal currency in sport

Three…
Is there anything more powerful in coaching than helping players re-direct their attention? You can do this through the questions you ask…
External change: "Where else can you scan that may help you make a different decision?"
Internal change: "Is there another way you can look at this situation to feel better about it?"

Four…
A coach's attention to detail must be exacting & impervious to defeat. After a loss a coach must put things in perspective. You can dominate performance but still lose. You can perform poorly and still win. The outcome of a match must be met with the right focus of attention…

Five…
One of the greatest skills a coach can help a
player develop is the skill of attention...to focus their mind on what they can control...to deal with distractions quickly...to build a concentration that flexibly filters the irrelevant while pinpointing the relevant..

[Paddy Steinfort @Paddys_posts]

Just get over yourself, and get started

[Paddy Steinfort @Paddys_posts]

@ChrisNowinski1 @PabloTorre @pablofindsout Awesome episode, and great insights from you Chris - had me glued to the screen. Keep up the amazing work 👏🏼

[Paddy Steinfort @Paddys_posts]

So do we all agree the Streisand Effect will now be called the Macklemore Effect?

[Paddy Steinfort @Paddys_posts]

I. CAN. NOT. WAIT. 🤤

[SEN 1116 @1116sen]

"I was worried at first, but now I cannot wait."

Paddy Steinfort and Brad Blanks have their say on #NFLMelbourne.

#Mimosa | #NFL

[Whateley @WhateleySEN]

NOW | Where in the world is @bradblanks - He is in the studio alongside @Paddys_posts

Listen: https://t.co/hNbEKSBKCi

[Paddy Steinfort @Paddys_posts]

Just like others in less public roles who I've worked thru this, he reminded me that the higher someone climbs on one narrow version of themselves, the more a single bad day puts the whole thing at risk.
More success does not solve that.
(5/5)

[Paddy Steinfort @Paddys_posts]

An NFL client I worked with wanted to quit it all at the peak of everything, with a multi-year, multi-million-dollar contract in front of him. Here's what happened next ⬇️ (1/5)

[Paddy Steinfort @Paddys_posts]

So, we stopped chasing performance and set up a system in his week to broaden his identity, rebuild the person underneath, and work on accepting imperfections and the ups and downs. (4/5)

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Bad days - even in SPACE - all share something in common: https://t.co/xjUpyxwgh1