Rhonda Senger

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

Rather than masking grads for one semester (just kicks the can down the road) a better approach might be to help young adults cope with pressure, acknowledge failure is a part of life, teach resilience, strive for excellence, and help people build identities beyond their grades.

[Jon Root @JonnyRoot_]

Colin Dorgan, whose mother, brother & grandfather were murdered in Rhode Island by his trans father at a hockey game last month, scored the game-winning goal in double OT, sending his high school team to the championship.

Great story of resilience.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

True

[Joe Castiglione @OUAD_Emeritus]

What a start to the @PGATOUR season for our #Sooners @ChrisGotterup Congratulations!!!

[Anna Lulis @annamlulis]

Incredible.

Football star Matthew Stafford brought his kids on stage to accept the MVP Award, celebrating fatherhood at the NFL Honors

View children as blessings, not burdens

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

Fernando Mendoza went from being a barely recruited 2-star prospect, to a third-string college QB, to winning the Heisman trophy and College Football National Championship.

It’s cool to care.
Be yourself and go all the way.

In an era where people are afraid to be called “cringe,” Mendoza led the Indiana Hoosiers’ historic turnaround with his heart on his sleeve and a captivating earnestness.

After leading the Hoosiers to an improbable Big 10 Championship over Ohio State, Mendoza barely held back tears in an emotional post-game interview, which had a commentator opining, “Did Mendoza just lose the Heisman with that interview?”

A week later, Mendoza won the Heisman Trophy. He cried during that speech, too.

He said, “I want every kid out there who feels overlooked, underestimated, to know I was you. I was that kid too. I was in your shoes.

The truth is, you don’t need the most stars, hype or rankings. You just need discipline, heart, and people who believe in you and you need to believe in your own abilities."

Perhaps Mendoza isn’t the best player in college football in spite of how much he cares; perhaps he is the best player in college football because of how much he cares.

And that he isn’t scared to be seen caring.

Mendoza didn’t waste time or energy playing a certain part. He needed every heartbeat to rise from a little known afterthought to the best college football player in the world.

The point isn’t that we should try to be more like Mendoza. It’s that we waste so much time and energy worrying about what others think and mimicking them instead of owning who we are and harnessing it for greatness.

The variety of caring that living an excellent life requires is neither saccharine nor solely focused on outcomes. It’s a process of laying it on the line and giving something your full effort, and it must be renewed every day.

It means that in success and even in failure you can be proud of the effort you gave, the guts you showed, and the person you are becoming.

Fernando Mendoza is a great model for young athletes (and really, all people).

Worrying about what others think is an enormous black hole of energy. It keeps so many on the sidelines and short of realizing their potential.

Being comfortable with who you are and giving it your all is a superpower.

At its best, excellence is an expression of authenticity. You pour who you are into what you do.

You don’t need to fit someone else’s idea of what it means to be great.

What you need is to put in the work.
Be yourself. And go all the way.

[OU Men's Lacrosse @OUMensLax]

Congratulations to our guys for getting LSA D1 All Conference recognition.

Third team: Zeke Mullendore, Junior, attack
Third team: Colin Senger, Senior, LSM Honorable mention: Austin Hurd, Graduate, FO/M

[NEWS CENTER Maine @newscentermaine]

Gibson Harnett was a three-sport, standout athlete at Yarmouth High School. His battle with a rare cancer inspired him to do more for others facing the same fight. https://t.co/3TVKjKJFa0

[Hula Kitty @ExCaliTaxpayer]

@robertlufkinmd

[Jenell Amber @theJenellAmber]

@newstart_2024 https://t.co/feKmY9g9k3

[America 2100 @America_2100]

Over 400,000 Americans just came together to demand that Kellogg's stop putting toxic chemicals in children's food.

But the problem is much bigger than Kellogg's.

The truth is, Americans are being poisoned.

Our food safety system has completely collapsed. 🧵

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Even the fence can’t stop friends playing

https://t.co/RHx1P1hncx

[joshua steinman (🇺🇸,🇺🇸) @JoshuaSteinman]

Hear me out:

What if we start importing breakfast cereals from Germany.

[Yarmouth Athletics @YHSClippers]

🎾🎾Boys Tennis Class B State Champions!!🎾🎾

[Rhonda Senger @rhondasenger]

I’m a psychologist in Finland, the No. 1 happiest country in the world: 4 phrases we use every day https://t.co/nhXKsghpP7

[kstate_MAN @kstateman14]

Death, taxes, KU being thoroughly outplayed in Allen Fieldhouse before an appalling call that no one else in America would get.

[Rhonda Senger @rhondasenger]

@markpurcell59 @OUMensLax Way to go @OUMensLax

[Mark Schipper - 5th Down CFB @5thDownCFB]

Just insane no call.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

When I was a kid, my grandfather told me the story of the Blind Men and the Elephant:

(everyone needs to hear this)

Six blind men are brought to examine an elephant that has come to their village.

The first man touches the trunk and says that the elephant is like a thick snake.

The second man touches the tusk and says that the elephant is like a spear.

The third man touches the ear and says that the elephant is like a fan.

The fourth man touches the leg and says that the elephant is like a tree.

The fifth man touches the side and says the elephant is like a wall.

The sixth man touches the tail and says the elephant is like a rope.

Each of the blind men is convinced that he is right and that everyone else is wrong.

American poet John Godfrey Saxe’s version of the story concludes with a simple, beautiful line:

Each was partly in the right, And all were in the wrong.​

So, oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance, Of what each other mean, And prate about an Elephant, Not one of them has seen!

The moral of this story is that the information we have about the world represents a tiny fraction of the information available, yet we use it to form a view of how the world works.

The world is always infinitely more complex than our narrow observation windows would allow us to understand.

I'm reminded of David Foster Wallace's famous This Is Water speech in 2005 (emphasis mine):

"The point here is that I think this is one part of what teaching me how to think is really supposed to mean. To be just a little less arrogant. To have just a little critical awareness about myself and my certainties. Because a huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded."
You can either choose to (A) cling to the notion that your view is the absolute truth or (B) embrace a degree of humility about your views and open your mind to change.

The goal of Path A is to preserve the notion of our own intelligence. The goal of Path B is to broaden and improve our view of reality by acquiring new and better information.

We should all choose Path B...

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.” ― Mark Twain

At the end of every quarter, ask yourself what you've changed your mind on recently.

If you can't think of anything, that's a bad thing.

Fighting back against perspective blindness and opening your mind to new ideas is a tried and true path to consistent, compounding growth.

The next time you want to reject an alternative viewpoint without thinking, remember the story of the Blind Men and the Elephant:

The world is much more complex than any of us can possibly understand.

[Rhonda Senger @rhondasenger]

Thank you @stoolpresidente

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

Also people need to shut up about Tcu not deserving to be in that game. No team in SEC besides Georgia would go undefeated in Big 12. No team in Sec besides Georgia could have beaten Mich. 2nd place Big 10 team that Mich destroyed shoulda beat Georgia. Tcu deserved to be there…