Morgan Toane

Certified coach, facilitator, & EQ practitioner. Principal at Entry Learning. He/him.

[Morgan Toane @MorganToane]

@JFreshHockey Edmonton's being projected as a weaker team than last year's - what's driving their T2nd best record here?

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Thread of positive stories that will restore your faith in humanity 🧵

1. Man posing with photo of forest he revived

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

Josh Waitzkin was a chess prodigy.

He won the U.S. Junior Chess Championship at age 11. He became an International Master at age 16. And his life was made into a movie (“Searching for Bobby Fischer”) at 17.

But then, around the age of 18, Waitzkin quit playing chess because…

He got a new coach.

“I was a naturally creative, aggressive chess player,” Waitzkin explained.

But the new coach forced Waitzkin to play like the great chess players Anatoly Karpov and Tigran Petrosian—“the most positional, conservative chess players.”

When he was forced to play in a way that didn’t align with his natural proclivities, Waitzkin said, “I lost my love for the game.”

So he quit.

He later took up martial arts, and after just 2 years of training, he won his first national championship in martial arts.

Asked if he took anything from chess into the martial arts, Waitzkin said he leaned into his unique physical and mental traits:

“And in my observation of competitors in any discipline, this a really fundamental idea. Those who succeed at the highest level, I think, basically manifest their unique character through their discipline.”

Takeaway 1:

Waitzkin said he was at his best (as a chess player then a martial artist) when his style aligned with his personality.

This is known in economics as “match quality”—the degree of alignment between the traits of a profession and the traits of a person.

The NBA executive turned venture capitalist, Sam Hinkie, was asked how he thought about shaping his career path.

Essentially, Hinkie said he tried to optimize for match quality.

“By nature,” Hinkie explained, “I think in decades, and I have a steady temperament.”

So, Hinkie thought, “Can you get to a place where there is leverage on that kind of thinking, where that kind of steady temperament is rewarded?”

Takeaway 2:

Waitzkin writes in his book, “The Art of Learning,” that “one of the most critical factors in becoming a high performer is the degree to which your relationship to your pursuit stays in harmony with your unique disposition.”

The music producer Rick Rubin is a good example of this.

Rubin is a voracious consumer of art. He’s constantly listening to music, reading a book, watching a movie, at a museum, or driving around just to look at beautiful architecture.

“It’s all I do,” Rubin told screenwriter Brian Koppelman. “But not because it’s my job. It’s like, my job is my job because the person that I am loves to do those things.”

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“It seems to me that each of us expressing our own originality is the essence of our art and professionalism.” — Jim Henson

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[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

“In Finland, the # of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” https://t.co/EH3reri9lz

[Morgan Toane @MorganToane]

@JFreshHockey Vinny Desharnais

[Morgan Toane @MorganToane]

Excited to rub elbows again with the brilliant folks at @Venture4Canada's #ALLTHINGSPEOPLE conference today at TMU #DiversityandInclusion

[Michael Gerald Gibbs🏳️‍🌈🍁 🇺🇦 (He/Him) @Mikeggibbs]

The President of the United States just scolded the Conservative caucus for not clapping for 50% women cabinets.

The Conservatives are now an international embarrassment. The whole world just saw that.

Thank you Joe!

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Are you in the habit of over-explaining? Here's how to break out of it and become more confident:

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Are you constantly focused on what people think of you, always re-playing conversations in your mind, and do you notice every change in someone's emotional state?

This is called hypervigilance:

[Fair Vote Canada 🗳 🇨🇦 @FairVoteCanada]

If you're getting tired of running from crisis to crisis – many of which have been developing long before this ON government was elected – it's time for a new kind of politics where MPs work together in the best interests of everyone.
That's #ProportionalRepresentation.
#onpoli

[Colby Kultgen @thecolbykultgen]

How to fall asleep quickly.

The Military Method (works for 96% of people):

[HOW THINGS WORK @HowThingsWork_]

Artist Mimi Choi with these breathtaking makeup designs! 😵‍💫

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

For all the data on oxytocin & love & social bonding, “allogrooming”: receiving non-sexual cleaning type touch from another human (think hair brushing, hair cut, skin care or even someone applying the lint roller to your shirt) leads to huge increases in oxytocin. Who knew?

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Here is how Finland is designing the perfect school 🇫🇮

[Tessa Davis @TessaRDavis]

11 incredible (free) websites that will save you hundreds of hours of your life:

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

“In Finland, the # of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” https://t.co/EH3reri9lz

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Diversity is smarter than homogeneity.

New data on 6.6 million science papers in all 45 subfields of medicine: mixed-gender teams generate more novel and influential work than same-gender teams.

Similarity breeds groupthink. Variety fuels deeper reflection and broader learning.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning." — Louis L'Amour

[Rachael Redgate, ICF PCC @rachredgate]

Perfectionism as a distraction from the progress you're making: