Shawn Facione

Strength and Conditioning | @pennstatefball #MarionMade

[Shawn Facione @sfacione]

Growth Mindset - belief that the ability to learn is not fixed; it can change with your effort @MindsetWorks

[Kevin DeShazo @KevinDeShazo]

4 things that are 100% in your control:

Your attitude
Your effort
How you treat people
What you focus on

Lead yourself better.

[Penn State Football @PennStateFball]

Tough. Disciplined. Together.

#WeAre

[Kevin DeShazo @KevinDeShazo]

Don’t speak negativity over yourself.

Your brain will look for evidence to reinforce that belief, making it sink deeper into your identity, making you believe the lie even more. It’s a devastating cycle.

Speak life. Speak truth. Call yourself up.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.

He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.

When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.

Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.

The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.

Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.

The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.

That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

[Penn State Football @PennStateFball]

Happy Easter, Nittany Nation!

#WeAre

[YouVersion Bible App @YouVersion]

Matthew 28:6

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

A great assistant coach is worth more than any play you drew up this week.

They catch what you miss.
They reach who you can’t.
They reinforce what you expect.

Great teams aren’t led by one voice.
They’re built by a connected staff.

[Corey Twine @CoreyTwine]

Frameworks in Human Performance are the playbook.

Same purpose as athletics: a shared scheme and language that keeps everyone aligned so execution becomes repeatable and consistent, not personality driven.

A playbook also protects the team. Every roster has different skill and game IQ. The scheme narrows the decision space so you are not asking people to solve complex problems on the fly. You are asking them to execute their assignment and make one or two decisions that fit the system. Even audibles work the same way. They are not random creativity, they are pre built answers inside the scheme.

But the truth is simple: a playbook only works if people will read it.

In sports, you see it instantly. Wrong routes. Missed blocks. Busted coverages. One person freelancing breaks the whole thing. Human Performance is no different. When people refuse to learn the framework, you get random payoff, inconsistent standards, and chaos that usually exists because it avoids accountability.

Frameworks are the Human Performance playbook. If you want consistent outcomes, build it, communicate it, and expect the team to study it.

[greg brooks @Gbrooks5_]

Many people don’t understand how hard it is dealing with ataxia! For everyone that is going through it KEEP GOING! If nobody believes in you I do! We are going to come out on top!!

[Kevin DeShazo @KevinDeShazo]

Great leaders build a culture that says our culture is for everybody, but it’s not for everybody.

You’re welcome here, but we’re not bending the standards to fit you.

Your personality, our standard.

[Ryan Fowler @_RyanFowler_]

Excellent Pro Day for LSU WR Chris Hilton Jr (6’0”, 188) who attended Hula, the American Bowl, Shrine, and the Senior Bowl:

40: 4.43
Vert: 38.5”
3 cone: 6.97
Short shuttle: 4.31
Top speed reached in positional drills: 23.3 MPH👀

[Jeremy Toohey @Toohey_sp]

Strength and conditioning is full of debates over sets, reps, and programming systems. Meanwhile, far fewer coaches have invested real time into learning how to communicate (verbal/non), how to read athletes, and how to build relationships that drive long term development.

[Reid Ouse @reidouse]

The most toxic person in a program isn't the complainer. It's the talented player with a mediocre work ethic that everyone else starts to emulate.

[Kevin DeShazo @KevinDeShazo]

Who you are under pressure is who you are.

Build your mindset, your character, your habits and your leadership accordingly.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

How much you bench, how fast you run a mile, or any singular physical tests has little to do with manhood.

It’s about being a decent human being who is a good role model for your kids and others.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns.

[Tyrann Mathieu @Mathieu_Era]

All will fall sooner or later or maybe you’ve already fallen…. Life becomes about Recovery. Response. Intentionality

[YouVersion Bible App @YouVersion]

Joshua 1:9

[Shawn Facione @sfacione]

Excellence.
#EFD

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Proverbs 18:24