Robert Karel

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

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

13. Reflecting Journaling

Every night spend 10 minutes writing 3 things :

What went well today

What didn't

One specific change for tomorrow.

Keep it short -- this isn’ t a diary

It's a feedback loop.

[🧬Maxpein🧬 @maximumpain333]

Wishing A Happy Father's Day To The Ones Who Quietly Held The Spotlight For Us.

[JP Sears @AwakenWithJP]

Here's how we "won the war" with Iran, according to a loser.

[The Sigma Mindset @thesigmamindset]

This one thing will change your life. Listen to this...

[The Sigma Mindset @thesigmamindset]

Here's how your phone is killing your connection ‼️

[Amalia - Con la Mente en la IA @Conlamenteen]

¿Sigues saboteándote a ti mismo y no sabes por qué?

En 2011, Mel Robbins soltó una bomba de honestidad brutal en una charla que ya tiene +34 millones de vistas:

“Cómo dejar de sabotearte a ti mismo”

Lo más fuerte que dijo fue esto:

· No estás “atascado”. Estás evitando.
· Tu cerebro te sabotea por diseño.
· La acción siempre vence a la emoción.

Si hoy otra vez estás procrastinando, perdiendo tiempo o sintiéndote culpable… este hilo te va a doler (pero te va a ayudar).

Aquí tienes 12 lecciones poderosas para dejar de autosabotearte de una vez 🧵👇

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.

The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.

What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.

Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.

In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.

[William Payne @TweetsbyCoachP]

A head coach who answers your emails personally is telling you something about the culture of that program. Pay attention to that.

[GoodNews Hub @_Achetypal]

Touch your husband

[Robert Karel @bkarel]

Such a good scene.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Brian May wrote “Who Wants to Live Forever” after seeing the scene where Connor MacLeod watches his wife grow old while he remains unchanged in HIGHLANDER (1986). That heartbreak became one of Queen’s greatest songs.

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Frazier 😂🤣

[The Sigma Mindset @thesigmamindset]

How to become exactly who you want to be (step by step)

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

If you want to be elite at something follow what the greats do

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

“Right now, CBS News is on fire”

Scott Pelley: “We need adult supervision and at the moment we don’t have it. We have people who’ve been installed in these jobs who through no fault of their own have no experience in television. It’s not their fault, but they don’t know what they’re doing. There’s a subtle political bias that I’ve never seen at 60 Minutes or CBS News before. That is my hope, a return to sanity. A return to honor, a return to courage. We used to have all of those things in abundance and now we don’t. We can save this. It’s possible to land this plane. But right now, CBS News, in my view, is on fire”

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

Love this twist on 1 on 1 close outs

Much more realistic

This should be an every day drill to practice guarding the ball

If you can’t keep the ball in front, you can’t win

(Via @reidouse 🎥)

[James Purchin @JamesPurchin]

"Be on time" isn't one of Pete Carroll's rules.

"Be early" is.

He won a Super Bowl with 3 rules total.

Rule 1: Protect the team.

Not the slogan. The mindfulness.

It's pulling a teammate out of a fight.
It's not hitting the guy late in practice.
It's the call you make when nobody's watching.

Rule 2: No whining, no complaining, no excuses.

Stolen from Coach Wooden

The point isn't to be upbeat.
The point is your self-talk runs the show.
Words come first. Behavior follows.

Rule 3: Be early.

Not on time. Early.

You can't be early by luck.
You thought about it the night before.
You set the alarm.
You knew the commitment.

Being early is a sign of respect you can see.

3 rules to run an NFL locker room.

Most teams have 12 values nobody can recite.