Former Dolphins HC Mike McDaniel is expected to become the Chargers offensive coordinator barring a change of heart, per @JeffDarlington and me. McDaniel has informed other teams that they’re out, the Chargers clearly want him, and the two sides are having dinner tonight. But the expectation across the league is that McDaniel will be staying in LA.
My friend Charlie Kirk was the best of America. A self-made man, a young husband and father, and a patriot, he was relentlessly positive about the future. He dedicated his life to making a difference with young people, drawing huge crowds everywhere he went. He was open to ideas and willing to debate anyone. That good-natured openness is what got him killed by an intolerant lunatic. Charlie was winning the debate, and for that, he had to be silenced, permanently. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife Erika and his family.
RIP Charlie Kirk. It doesn’t matter what your opinion is of Charlie or his politics if you don’t view this as one of the darkest days in American history than you are part of the problem.
I was absolutely in the “why do we have to say Herbert is a top-7 QB when he hasn’t earned it yet” camp — but Herbert was legit incredible last night. He cooked the Chiefs. Thought he had an almost perfect game.
Six-time Pro-Bowl WR Keenan Allen, who spent the first 11 seasons of his NFL career with the Chargers, is re-signing with the franchise. Allen visited the Chargers on Aug. 1, and the visit now has been extended for this season.
Shane Gillis: "They let me do it. This is Disney. They allowed that... Yeah, we should've taken that out. I had doubts going into that. That didn't work all week." #ESPYs
I think about this twice a day.
Every morning when I sit down to read & again when I begin to work, I say to myself,
“Accept the initial agitation.”
When you try to focus, Andrew Huberman explains, “the brain circuits that turn on first are of the stress system.”
Meaning:
“The agitation and stress that you feel at the beginning of something—when you’re trying to lean into it and you can’t focus: you feel agitated and your mind’s jumping all over the place—that is just a gate. You have to pass through that gate to get to the focus component.”
There’s a common misconception, @hubermanlab continues: “the misunderstanding around how these brain circuits work has led to this idea...a kind of obsession with the idea that we have to feel good in order to be productive.”
“And nothing could be further from the truth.”
The truth is it’s the reverse: we have to be productive—we have to start working, we have to lean in and get going, accepting the initial agitation—in order to feel good.
So along with “accept the initial agitation,” sometimes—when I don’t feel especially good, motivated, interested, or energized—I say to myself,
“Forget how you feel right now.”
“It will feel good,” Huberman says, “but there’s a whole staircase in which it feels kind of lousy...The early stages of hard work and focus are always going to feels like agitation, stress, and confusion.”
“Remember: there’s a gate of entry. You have to wade through some sewage before you can swim in clear water. That’s the way I always think about it.”
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“Mood follows action.” — @richroll
The clip below is from Andrew’s 2020 interview on Rich’s podcast (https://t.co/HqdLeNKTxm)