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[Michael Thomas @Cantguardmike]

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[Ben Targove @BTargove]

“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same”. -Rudyard Kipling

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Giannis is one of the most thoughtful and interesting athletes in the 21st century. Listen to this answer — how many people could give it in their PRIMARY language, much less a foreign one?

[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 meet Greg Harden, a counselor who worked in the 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 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, he was getting 4 reps. Then 10, “and before you knew it,” Brady said, “with this new mindset that Greg had 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 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:

In the field of strategic management, there is a distinction made between “lead measures” and “lag measures.”

Lag measures are the results you’re trying to achieve: getting a promotion, winning a championship, being the starting quarterback. Lead measures are the actions that predictably drive those results. 

The core characteristic of a lead measure, the authors of “The 4 Disciplines of Execution” write, is that “a lead measure can be directly influenced by you.” To achieve your goals, they write (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.

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. But I’ve always 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 didn’t. It mattered what I was doing.” — Tom Brady

[Ben Targove @BTargove]

Hours after a deer is born they know how to escape from a coyote. We are so far behind as a human race.

[Ben Targove @BTargove]

Rumor has it, this is up for cinema of the year.

[Ohio State Football @OhioStateFB]

National Championship, 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐩 🏆

[FanlyU @TheFanlyU]

My wife: "What are we doing this weekend?"

Me:

[Ben Targove @BTargove]

The smell of fresh cut grass, an overnight rain, and the warm sun shining just makes a Friday morning 10x better. #simplethings

[Ben Targove @BTargove]

One of the biggest problems I have living in North Dakota and this area of the country in general.

[Cole Adams @coleadamss]

Get ready to learn FCS buddy

[Dan Siegel @DanSiegel_]

If you’re wondering why I love CBB so much, it’s because the entire country rallies around a future Northwestern Mutual Agent absolutely cooking NBA lottery picks.

[jxke. 🧸🎰🃏 @cantguardjake]

POV: You are a beer in my fridge at 5:01 PM EST today

[Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives @dom_lucre]

This Uber driver, a Black woman Lamiyah Jabbar, age 30, picked up a White woman named Diane, who opened up to her about her financial struggles on the way to work at fast food chain Tim Hortons in Buffalo, New York.

Lamiyah dropped Diane at her job, and instead of picking up a new passenger, Lamiyah drove to a shopping mall to visit several stores and asked women who looked to be about Diane's size what clothes they liked to wear and bought those clothes for Diane along with a gift card.

I emphasized the race of the women in this video because that’s all I see on this platform now from both parties but only when the video makes either race look bad. We can also show the good in both sides.

[Ben Targove @BTargove]

@dave_severns #hoopoftheday Lake Sakakawea, North Dakota

[Ben Targove @BTargove]

@midwestern_ope you know you’re midwestern when u ask your wife if Applebees has any all you can eat specials

[Ben Targove @BTargove]

It’s not March but, boy is it Madness. Clemson/Unc wild rn

[Jack Raines @Jack_Raines]

Compilation of top-tier Tiger Woods "big dog" memes, a thread:

[Will Compton @_willcompton]

Today marks a tough day. Two years ago I suddenly lost my mother to a blood clot.

Acknowledging the pain is always hard to face. It’s like an internal war that has no outcome other than hitting dead ends of “what if’s” and wishing you had the Click remote to go back in time.

It doesn’t ever go away, and if I really think about it, I don’t ever want it to because this human being meant that much to me.

Perspective is usually a great thing, but, in this instance of having a loved one gone, it also fucking sucks.

People die. It just is what it is.

We all go one day, and if we’re lucky, we will leave a mark on someone the way my mom left one on me.

Someone who loved intentionally. Someone who showed up. Someone who taught the value of a dollar and hardwork.

My mom was a leader.. and someone I aspire to be like.

Recapping this sucks and it brings up that pain. But as angry as I get about her being taken from us I have to quickly grab and remind myself that she didn’t work and raise us the way she did so that we could fold when life gets hard. Or go into a cave and sulk forever.

The next day comes whether we want it to or not and it’s up us to put to practice what we were taught.

It’s later than we all think.

And there’s a finite amount of time to live with intention, pour into the family that we have, and fondly remember the impact those people made for us to carry on.

Tell your people that you love them because you never know when the last time will be.

And also - call your mom.

[Jon Rothstein @JonRothstein]

Princeton. 8-0.

[Jared Berson @JaredBerson]

Princeton this season:

- Neutral site win vs Rutgers
- Win at Hofstra
- Win at Duquesne
- Win at Monmouth
- Win at Old Dominion

The Tigers are the first Division I team in the last 15 years to start 5-0 with 4 road wins.

[Ben Targove @BTargove]

It’s back baby. The round ball and the hard court. It’s so freaking back.

[College Football Report @CFBReport]

Ohio State narrative this off-season:

“They’re breaking in a new QB and 3/5 of an Offensive Line. They’ll be lucky to go 9-3.”

*After week 1*

I see 8-4 with losses to Notre Dame, Penn State, Wisconsin & Michigan.

*Gets to week 5*

I see 9-3 with losses to Penn State, @ Wisconsin & @ Michigan.

*Gets to week 8*

I see 10-2 with losses @ Wisconsin & @ Michigan.

*Gets to week 10*

I see 11-1 with a loss @ Michigan.

No matter what you think of this Buckeye team, they’ve exceeded a lot of expectations, EVEN IF they lose to Michigan to close out the season.

Don’t give a “they were preseason top 3 lol” because majority of College Football fans thought it would be a down year.

Just another 10+ win season for the Buckeyes.