Drew Brees shares a masterclass in leadership. It's 2004, he's about to lose his job, and he asked for 10 minutes with the team before the season.
What happened next turned a 4-12 squad into a 12-4 contender.
Brees passed out goal sheets to every player.
"I said, 'We're going to accomplish great things this year. But we need to create that path for ourselves, and then we need to hold ourselves accountable for this.'"
The sheets had three sections:
โข Top 5 team goals.
โข Top 5 offensive/defensive goals.
โข Top 5 personal goals.
"I had already had a list of things I felt should be our goals, but I wanted it to be a collaboration."
"If it comes out of their mouth, then they gotta own it. And they have to become accountable to it."
That's the key. Goals that come from the team belong to the team.
"It gave guys the opportunity to verbalize things that maybe they otherwise wouldn't have verbalized."
"I didn't want to leave anything up for chance. I didn't want to leave anything up for assumption."
"What are we trying to accomplish? Goal number one - win a Super Bowl. Okay, in order to do that, what do we have to do? In order to do that, what do I have to do?"
"You just set these short-term goals in order to achieve the big one."
"Nobody had ever done that before. I'd never done that with a team. But when guys came together, put their heads together, put something on paper - they committed to it and became accountable to it."
Goals without ownership are just wishes.
โข Make them say it.
โข Make them write it.
โข Make them own it.
That's how you build accountability and set a shared standard for the team.
(๐ฅJeff Fenster Show | @drewbrees)
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Intelligent people live a boring life. They go to bed at 10. Wake up at 6. Eat simple foods. Go for long walks. Read thick books. Say no to things that drain them. The world chases excitement. But they chase calm. Things that align with their soul. A calm routine. A quiet mind. A healthy body. Meaningful work. A small circle. A private life. Their life may look boring from the outside. But from the inside, they experience a kind of freedom most people spend their entire lives searching for.
THIS GIF SHOWS WHY YOUR AGENT FORGETS EVERYTHING BETWEEN SESSIONS AND HOW MEMORY FIXES IT
Stateless inference โ no retention โ full recomputation every call โ context rot โ massive KV cache costs โ isolated agents โ no knowledge build-up
Agent memory fixes the root cause
Prompt assembly โ session memory + RAG data + long-term memories + enterprise sources โ inference โ memory write-back โ background curation โ dreaming consolidation
The practical test: same agent, two sessions, weather API research for project Beacon
Without memory โ "I have no record of a Beacon project. This is the first time we have spoken"
With Mem0 โ "Live data flowing. Dublin is 15.6 degrees and overcast. Beacon is scaffolded, working, and committed"
The agent could save context. It saved names and preferences. It simply did not judge project details worth preserving. That judgment degrades across weeks of work. Dedicated memory removes that risk
Save this, then architect the memory for your agent โญฃ
Fortune 500 companies pay $500,000 a year for the skill of strategic thinking, and now this 71-minute Robert Greene masterclass filmed 15 years ago gives it to you completely free.
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that's neuron.
it doesn't know fear.
it doesn't know lack.
it just repeats what you tell it.
you tell it "i'm not enough" 500 times. the neuron fires. then fires again. then builds a superhighway for that belief.
you tell it "nothing ever works for me" every morning. the neuron doesn't argue. it just memorizes.
you tell it "i can't change" long enough, the neuron believes you. and then your reality matches.
that's neuroplasticity.
from a quantum perspective, your focused attention is what turns possibility into experience. the neuron is the bridge, but the bridge only appears when you choose a direction.
the good news? the same neuron doesn't know truth from a lie. it just repeats. so you can overwrite the lie with a new signal. when you hold that new signal with quiet certainty, reality reorganizes around it, without you forcing it.
what most people get wrong: they try to "think positive" once. then wonder why nothing changes.
one weak signal doesn't build a highway. repetition does. and without the inner "already done", the repetition stays hollow."
every time you replace โthis is hardโ with โwhatโs the first step?โ you shift brain activity from your amygdala (fear) to your prefrontal cortex (problem-solving).
thatโs neuroplasticity in real time.
You should read this.
You can truly change your life and habits whenever you want. With enough consistent effort and discipline. And Im not trying to be some self help cheerleader, the neuroscience confirms.
Twenty five years of research at Harvard, and the thing that decided who got rich was not talent, not work and not money. And the funny part is that nobody ever tries to change it.
His name is Brian Tracy. He left school without graduating and ended up running a company doing two hundred and sixty five million dollars a year.
Before any of that he was selling door to door, and he was bad at it. There was a man at the next desk selling the same product, at the same price, to the same people, in the same city, earning ten times as much.
At 3:47 he says what he did about it. He walked over and asked him.
The Harvard work comes at 34:51. David McClelland gave twenty five years to one question, and the number he came back with was ninety nine percent.
In 1900 America had five thousand millionaires. By 2000 it had five million.
At 36:06 he describes what a single person in an office does to everyone around them. It is the same mechanism, running the other way.
46 minutes. After it, the people you spend your week with stop looking neutral.
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Millions have watched an MIT professor accidentally destroy the $10 billion American self-help industry in a free 49-minute psychology lecture on why 50 percent of adults literally cannot see a gorilla walking across their own screen.
MIT charges $87,000 a year to sit in that classroom.
He posted every lecture on OpenCourseWare for nothing.
Almost no one who has ever bought a personality test, hired a life coach, or watched a TED talk on "growth mindset" has finished all twenty-six.
His name is Jeremy Wolfe. He is a Harvard Medical School professor, director of the Visual Attention Lab at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the psychologist the TSA quietly hired to figure out why airport screeners keep missing guns in carry-on bags.
The 49-minute clip in this video is Lecture 1 of MIT 9.00 Introduction to Psychology, filmed at MIT in the fall of 2004.
The bullet points on the slide behind him look like a syllabus. They are the exact science that decides whether you remember the argument correctly or your husband does, whether the witness at a trial is telling the truth, and whether the intern at your office is a bad employee or you are a bad manager.
Wolfe compresses two centuries of behavioral science into five ideas.
Attention. You are not seeing your world. You are seeing a tiny slice of it your brain decided is worth processing. In a famous experiment, half the viewers watching a basketball game miss a person in a gorilla suit walking across the court. This is also why you rear-ended the car in front of you while texting.
Memory reconstruction. Every "vivid" memory of your childhood, your first date, or the day of 9/11 is a story your brain rewrites every time you recall it. Eyewitness testimony sends innocent people to prison. Your version of the fight you had with your spouse last week is not what actually happened.
Cognitive dissonance. When your behavior contradicts your beliefs, you rewrite the beliefs. This is why the smoker convinces herself the studies are exaggerated. This is why every voter you know defended their candidate through the worst scandal.
Fundamental attribution error. When someone else screws up, it is their character. When you screw up, it is the situation. This is the reason you are certain your boss is a jerk and equally certain you are not.
Obedience. Stanley Milgram put 65 percent of ordinary Americans in a chair and got them to deliver what they thought were lethal electric shocks to a stranger, simply because a man in a lab coat asked them to. A decade later Zimbardo showed the same thing with a fake prison at Stanford. The behavior is not the exception. It is the default.
Every advertising agency on earth pays $500,000-a-year creative directors to weaponize this material against you.
Every corporate HR department hires consultants at $5,000 a day to teach a watered-down version of it as a "leadership workshop."
The MIT professor who ran the course gave the whole framework away on OpenCourseWare for the price of an internet connection.
"My experience is what I agree to attend to."
That is William James, the father of American psychology, writing in 1890. Wolfe returns to the sentence across the course. Almost nobody scrolling their phone through their own life has ever asked what they are agreeing to attend to.
The lectures are free on MIT OpenCourseWare. The reading list is posted online. Wolfe's textbook "Sensation and Perception" is under one hundred dollars.
The science is free. The willingness to sit through 49 minutes of psychology before firing an employee, testifying at a trial, or trusting your own memory of any argument you have ever had is a much rarer commodity than the confidence to walk in without it.
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Name the sport and this man will pick it up with ease. Combat sports, basketball, hockey, bowling, footballโฆ Islam is apparently an all-sport athlete. ๐๐ฅ