Anil Schwartz

Gig em 👍🏻 ,Go Irish ☘️, Sic em 🐻 Go Cougs, Rangers, Mavs, The office, Harry Potter, #AAO #UDM #BCM #WTS #LLT #4T #lljw Dolo FOE 999 979🇮🇳 Grateful

[Anil Schwartz @just__anil]

We can talk IQ s*it all we want but at the end of the day the mfer who wants it more is gonna get it. I might not be the best ball handler or shooter but ain’t nobody gonna f*ing want it more than me and that’s a skill by the way anyone can possess

https://t.co/EGxaWPPjIz

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The best pitcher in baseball refuses to lift weights, warms up by throwing a javelin, and scouts hitters with a paper notebook. The Dodgers paid him $325 million and then hired his sensei too.

The notebook makes sense once you see the rest of his system.

Yamamoto trains under Osamu Yada, who has never told him to touch a barbell. Javelin throws instead of long toss. Handstands, back bridges, breathing work. The Dodgers studied the routine, decided they couldn't improve it, and hired Yada rather than change Yamamoto. During free agency, one team's recruiting gift to him was a team-logoed javelin, just to prove how deep their research went.

The results broke baseball's assumptions. Last November he threw 96 pitches in World Series Game 6, then came out of the bullpen and closed Game 7 the very next day.

Now look at the dugout. Every MLB club runs Hawk-Eye, a dozen cameras per stadium tracking spin, tilt, and swing path on every single pitch. Yamamoto has all of it on an iPad ten feet away.

He writes by hand anyway.

Japanese player development bakes this in. Kids keep baseball journals from little league on, charting every at-bat in their own words. The logic survives contact with analytics. League data tells you what a hitter does on average. A pitcher's own notes capture what that hitter did against him tonight, pitch by pitch, while the at-bat is still fresh. By the third time through the order, he's working from a document no analytics department can generate.

Mookie Betts watched this for two seasons. This spring he started throwing javelins too.

Baseball built the most surveilled playing field in sports. Its best October pitcher still trusts the notebook in his back pocket more.

[Anil Schwartz @just__anil]

@Fullcourtpass Why would Houston do that?

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

You can't want more playing time,
a bigger role, leadership responsibilities
championships, or to play at the next level

If you don't want to work hard, to make sacrifices, to discipline yourself, to be coached, to be held accountable.

Wants come with requirements.

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

Everyone makes mistakes.

The main difference is that successful people learn from them and unsuccessful people don’t.

By creating an environment in which it is okay to safely make mistakes so that people can learn from them, you’ll see rapid progress and fewer significant mistakes. This is especially true in organizations where creativity and independent thinking are important, as success will inevitably require the acceptance of failure as a part of the process.

As Thomas Edison once said, “I have not failed. I’ve just found ten thousand ways that do not work.” #principleoftheday

[Ryan Hammer🔨 @ryanhammer09]

Shout out to Dana Altman for those late 2010s Oregon Ducks teams - some of the most enjoyable CBB teams to watch win

Dillon Brooks
Tyler Dorsey
Jordan Bell
Payton Pritchard
Chris Boucher
Dylan Ennis

Elite times

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

"You don’t get rewarded for doing what is required."@inkyjohnson
Greatness is not given to a chosen few. Greatness is given to the few who choose to do 'more than what's required'.
To be great, you have to give great -great sacrifice, great focus, great discipline, great effort.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

Pain is part of life. Accept it. Live through it. Learn from it. Then growth will show up quietly, almost as if by accident.

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

All the online drama about grinding vs. natural talent reminds me of this from @RobertGreene:

[Anil Schwartz @just__anil]

@extrastats @AndrewDBailey Rockets are too low

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

The opposite of happiness isn’t unhappiness, it’s taking things for granted.

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

Betting on yourself, and watching yourself pull it off, is the most addictive feeling in the world.

Unmatched rush.

[liminal @Liminal1988]

Your life becomes a mirror of the small decisions you make daily:

[shipra @shipranotes]

Build an obsession with learning, not just passing tests.

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

Worrying about "blame" and "credit" or "positive" and "negative" feedback impedes the iterative process that is essential to learning.

Remember that what has already happened lies in the past and no longer matters except as a lesson for the future. #principleoftheday

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

Everyone will tell you to "go easy" on yourself, but no one achieves great things that way.

Great people are brutally hard on themselves, expect 200x more of themselves than of others, and hold a standard that is incredibly high.

More should be "hard on themselves."

[Natism @Natism]

Five highest forms of intelligence :
1. Pattern recognition
2. Delusional optimism
3. Quiet discernment
4. Strategic detachment
5. Deep curiosity

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Displaying anger and emotion are signs of weakness; you cannot control yourself, so how can you control anything?

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

The opposite of misery isn’t happiness. It’s gratitude.

[MLB @MLB]

Bottom of the 9th
Bases loaded
Two outs
Down by one

Jackson Chourio provided an all-time moment for Milwaukee 😤

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

The dream scenario of every kid. Bottom of the ninth. Two outs. Bases loaded. Facing the toughest pitcher in the world to hit.

Jackson Chourio made magic.