Joseph Frech, EdS

Christian, Husband, Father, Educator - Doss High School, Louisville, Singer, Doctoral Student - University of Kentucky #GoCards

[Joseph Frech, EdS @JosephFrech]

@DineshDSouza Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

[Lupen @0xLupenn]

Goldman Sachs runs a version of this experiment in every behavioral interview.

They hand you $5 and tell you to send any amount to a stranger. Whatever you send triples. The stranger decides what comes back. Rational answer: send nothing. You lose every dollar you trust. Most candidates send almost everything. The ones who do - and explain why - get the offer. Starting salary: $250,000.

This is MIT. An economics lecture filmed years ago. The game runs every semester. The split barely changes.

He opens with one rule: the room always divides into the same two groups.

Then the game. $5. It triples. A stranger decides what comes back. The math says keep it. The room does something different every time.

Then the second game. One student splits. The other can only accept or reject. No counter. No negotiation. The offers collapse - not to zero, but enough to see exactly where strategy ends and something else begins.

Then the chocolate. One semester a student got Swiss chocolate instead of cash. She was lactose intolerant. Gave away 100%. The professor noted it. The class laughed. Nobody caught the point. The moment giving costs nothing - everyone is generous. The moment real money hits the table, the room splits into the same two groups.

Then the four ways. Labor, capital, arbitrage, insurance. Four ways to make money. All four require the same opening move. You send value before you see a return. A paycheck after the work. A deposit before the interest. A bet before the edge. A premium before the claim.

Watch the moment he names that structure out loud. Someone always moves first. The one who moves first captures almost all the upside - and almost all the risk.

An investor I know replays this before every partnership negotiation. Said it was the first time trust felt like a variable he could actually measure.

Free on YouTube, MIT OpenCourseWare.

bookmark this and watch later - after this lecture every handshake you make will feel like a game you already know how to read

[Lupen @0xLupenn]

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[Matt Townsley @mctownsley]

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[Joseph Frech, EdS @JosephFrech]

@priyaee Agreed.

[AI Panda @AIPandaX]

A guy was ready to drop $1,500 on a new OLED TV because his 3-year-old Smart TV was freezing up and took 5 seconds just to respond to the remote.

He unplugged it. Deleted old apps. Cleared the cache. The lag kept coming back.

He went to Best Buy to get a replacement.

The home theater installer in the blue shirt stopped him: "Before you spend a grand, let me show you something."

He grabbed a remote and shook his head.

"There are 8 hidden tracking settings throttling your TV's processor right now. Manufacturers turn them all on by default. Nobody tells you they exist. Let's fix this."

Here's what he showed him in the next 8 minutes. 🧵

[Joseph Frech, EdS @JosephFrech]

@danddychiggins Are you regretting your Moss tattoo?

[Joseph Frech, EdS @JosephFrech]

@danddychiggins @Jackson_muse 😂😂

[Joseph Frech, EdS @JosephFrech]

@danddychiggins @Jackson_muse I remember how much people hated you at Doss, but it all makes sense now.

[Joseph Frech, EdS @JosephFrech]

@nut_history @elowe1977 Looked like a breaking ball.

[Matt Townsley @mctownsley]

A practical guide for PLCs and standards-based grading at the secondary education level.

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[Joseph Frech, EdS @JosephFrech]

@JaHeisman @LouisvilleFB @IndianaFootball @AlabamaFTBL @BeaverFootball @TerpsFootball @AuburnFootball @BadgerFootball @UKFootball @CowboyFB @VandyFootball @centurions_fb @Aspirationsgym @TomLoy247 @Rivals @247Sports @on3 🐔 #GoCards

[Dax @thatsdax]

5 REASONS NOT TO QUIT:

1. You’re closer than you think – (Gal. 6:9)
2. Every storm eventually passes – (Ps. 30:5)
3. God’s plan is still working – (Jer. 29:11)
4. Strength grows in hard times – (Isa. 41:10)
5. Your story will inspire others – (Rom. 8:28)

[Joseph Frech, EdS @JosephFrech]

@danddychiggins 🤔

[Matt Townsley @mctownsley]

Shifting from grading tasks to assessing standards

💡 Tasks as vehicles for assessing standards

https://t.co/Qm0tv7Xr3K

[Joseph Frech, EdS @JosephFrech]

@danddychiggins @Cooper_Biven @vincemarrow

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Roger Federer broke the internet with one statistic that will change how you see every setback in your life.
1,526 singles matches.
Won almost 80% of them.
20 Grand Slams. 103 titles.

Now answer honestly:
What percentage of total points do you think he won across his entire career?
70%? 65%? 60%?

Try … 54%.
He lost literally almost EVERY SECOND POINT he ever played for 24 years.

And still became one of the greatest of all time.

Watch him explain it himself (2:07 of pure life-changing wisdom):
“In tennis, perfection is impossible… When you lose every second point on average, you teach yourself to say:
‘Okay, I double-faulted — it’s only one point.’
‘Okay I got passed at the net — it’s only one point.’
Even a screaming overhead smash that ends up on SportsCenter Top 10… still just one point.

So when you’re playing your point, it has to be the most important thing in the world.
The moment it’s over — it’s behind you.

That mindset frees you to attack the next point, and the next, and the next with absolute intensity and clarity.”

Then he looked at the crowd and said the line that hit a billion people in the soul:
“The real sign of a champion is not that they win every point.
It’s that they lose again and again and again… and have learned how to deal with it.
Negative energy is wasted energy.
Cry it out if you have to. Then force a smile.
Move on. Be relentless. Adapt. Grow.
Work harder — and work smarter.”

Save this post.

The next time you lose a deal, bomb a presentation, get ghosted, miss a deadline, or just have “one of those days” — come back here and read it again.

You’re not falling behind.
You’re just in the 46%.
And the 46% is exactly where every single legend has spent most of their career.

Keep playing the next point.
(full 2:07 clip — sound on)

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