Derrick Bovenkamp

[ᴅᴏxx ⚡️ @new_era72]

I didn’t know you were built like that Mike 😭❤️

[Eli Manning @EliManning]

Well, it wasn’t ALL a dream…

#BradyDay @Topps @SFGiants @giants

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

After his second year at Michigan, Tom Brady wanted to transfer.

He wasn't playing in games, and he was so low on the depth chart that he only got 2 reps in practice.

Brady met with his coach to express his frustration, “The other quarterbacks get all the reps.”

Coach replied,

“Brady, I want you to stop worrying about what all the other players on our team are doing. All you do is worry about what the starter is doing, what the second guy is doing, what everyone else is doing. You don't worry about what you're doing.”

Coach reminded him, “You came here to be the best. If you're going to be the best, you have to beat out the best.”

And then he recommended that Brady start meeting with Greg Harden, a sports psychologist who worked in Michigan's athletic department.

Brady went to Harden's office and whined, “I'm never going to get my chance. They're only giving me 2 reps.”

Harden simply replied, “Just go out there and focus on doing the best you can with those 2 reps. Make them as perfect as you possibly can.”

“So that's what I did,” Brady said. “They'd put me in for those 2 reps, man, I'd sprint out there like it was Super Bowl 39. 'Let's go boys! Here we go! What play we got?'”

“And I started to do really well with those 2 reps. Because I brought enthusiasm, I brought energy.”

Soon, it went from getting 2 reps to getting 4 reps. Then from 4 to 10, “and before you knew it,” Brady said, with this new mindset that Greg instilled in me—to focus on what you can control, to focus on what you're getting, not what anyone else is getting, to treat every rep like it's the Super Bowl—eventually, I became the starter.”

Takeaway 1:

Greg Harden telling Brady to just focus on being great during his 2 reps reminded me of a piece of advice from the entrepreneur Mark Cuban.

“People come to me all the time and tell me they're stuck,” Cuban explained. “They're stuck in a job they don't like. They're stuck working for a boss they don't like. They're stuck on a team they don't like.”

“I just tell them, 'Be great.'”

“The reality of life is that you can't just always quit your job. You can't just always go to your boss and say, 'Give me the promotion, or I'm out of here.'” You can't just always go to your coach and say, 'Give me more reps, or I'm transferring.'

“So when you're stuck, you've gotta find it within yourself to say, 'Ok, this is where I am. And if I'm going to be here, I'm going to be great.'

Because if you're great at your job, typically other people and companies find out, so it creates opportunities.”

Takeaway 2:

I've written before about “lead measures”—the actions and behaviors that predictably drive success.

The core characteristic of a lead measure, the authors of The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) write, is that “a lead measure is influenceable; it can be directly influenced by you.”

To achieve your goals, they recommend (echoing what the Michigan Coach told Brady), apply a disproportionate energy to the things that are in your control.

Starting at Michigan and for the rest of his career, that’s what Brady did, that’s what drove his success.

In his first media call after he was selected by the New England Patriots with the 199th pick in the 2000 draft, Brady was asked: “Are you aware that [along with starting quarterback, Drew Bledsoe] there’s another quarterback here that they drafted last year?”

Brady said he was aware of that. “And I know he’s a heck of a player,” Brady said. “But I’ve always really concerned myself just with the things I can control. I don’t put a lot of thinking into the other guys because I know I’m not at my best when I’m not just thinking about playing as well as I possibly can.”

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“I never once in my life ever said I wanted to be the best of all time. Ever. I wanted to be the best I could be, period. I learned that in college. It didn’t matter what the other guys were doing. It mattered what I was doing.” — Tom Brady

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[ACC Digital Network @theACCDN]

Sorry @rileyleonard13_ ,

We tried! 😞

However, you are STILL A LEGEND! 😈

Now go study! 📚

[Derrick Bovenkamp @bovie2k]

Honored to be recognized with the Silver Beaver

[Mount Baker Council, Scouting America @MountBakerBSA]

Congratulations to Derrick Bovenkamp @bovie2k - Silver Beaver recipient for 2022.

#MBCScouts #SilverBeaver #AdventureGrowsHere

[Derrick Bovenkamp @bovie2k]

@GlennAlanBerry What is the back end storage?

[Derrick Bovenkamp @bovie2k]

@_randolph_west Did you travel? Not sure why they won’t let you just quarantine at home. Either way 4 days for a test is insane.

[Derrick Bovenkamp @bovie2k]

@GlennAlanBerry This is good. We need Apple, AMD and Intel fighting it off at every generation.

[Pat McAfee @PatMcAfeeShow]

Rob Gronkowski MIGHT be the only guy that has ever reached that level without watching film.. BE WHO YOU CAN AFFORD TO BE

#PatMcAfeeShowLIVE

[Derrick Bovenkamp @bovie2k]

@JakeBillRiley Your fellow Troop 7 Eagle Scouts will be running with you in Tokyo. Good Luck and Godspeed. #TokyoOlympics2021 @MountBakerBSA

[Brent Ozar @BrentO]

Good morning to everyone except the people who store files in a relational database

[Derrick Bovenkamp @bovie2k]

@GlennAlanBerry Wow @SqlEmt and I just saw one about a month ago but the data file was much bigger than 800mb.

[Derrick Bovenkamp @bovie2k]

Thanks @AmericanExpress for the To Go Breakfast

[Derrick Bovenkamp @bovie2k]

@GlennAlanBerry @kleegeek Of course it is all those I/O request aren’t getting the SAN :-)

[Derrick Bovenkamp @bovie2k]

@GlennAlanBerry I’m missing something what is the line for? AMD Zen 3?

[Derrick Bovenkamp @bovie2k]

@_randolph_west Every few years I think is what you are supposed to do.

[Derrick Bovenkamp @bovie2k]

@GlennAlanBerry @BuckWoodyMSFT @GlennAlanBerry might I also suggest The Bridges at Toko-Ri

[Derrick Bovenkamp @bovie2k]

@GlennAlanBerry @BuckWoodyMSFT Love Strategic Air Command

[Derrick Bovenkamp @bovie2k]

@GlennAlanBerry This post brings back memories.

[Derrick Bovenkamp @bovie2k]

@kleegeek Weird. I did recently see AV program using north of 10GB of ram on a SQL server recently.