rugged indoorsman. | doctor (not that kind) via Boston U. | "Get comfortable being uncomfortable; the fear of discomfort is worse than the discomfort itself."
At the 38th annual Thanksgiving Day Feaster Five Run/Walk in Andover, Dave McGillivray @DMSE gave a wonderful tribute to his ex-wife Susan Hurley, who ran Charity Teams for for @bostonmarathon since 2008. Susan, a beacon of light, lost her battle with cancer this month. @wbz
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Finished > perfect.
"Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough—that we should try again. No. We Should not."
— Julia Cameron (via @tferriss - https://t.co/xuOl1HJoJj)
Since RBI became official in 1920, only one MLB player has had, over the course of his entire career (same game or not),
a game with 10+ RBI
a game with 6+ hits
a game with 5+ XBH
a game with 3+ HR
a game with 2+ SB
That one player is Shohei Ohtani. He did all of it today.
An thoughtful and informative piece.
A periodic conversation in performance psychology spaces for years has been, “Are SMART goals really that smart?” This piece does a wonderful job of sharing why such a monolithic approach to goals has many limits.
A stream of scientific articles suggests that there are benefits in turning toward discomfort or upsetting emotions with acceptance. https://t.co/rk3m9HqsMz
Our new book, The Friction Project, unpacks 4 kinds of "jargon monoxide" in Chapter 7 (below)
e.g., we document how "agile" fell prey to the "jargon mishmash syndrome"
A noisy "random scatter of ideas" that now means so many different things to so many people, it means nothing
It would be sad and boring for Belichick to go coach Carolina or the Chargers. He'd be far more satisfied and happy doing something eccentric, like coaching Nantucket Lacrosse.
Mental skills coordinator Zach Brandon presented a tidbit to players in which he broke the season down into pockets of seven-game series, 23 in all. The Diamondbacks won 15 of them. Three times, they lost the first two games but came back to win the “series.” #PerspectiveShift