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rehabilitating knicks fan.

[New York Basketball @NBA_NewYork]

The Comeback
From the SkyCam
Full Garden sound

[SNY Knicks @sny_knicks]

Landry Shamet said he didn't know his triple to tie Game 1 at 99-99 tied the game

"I was like 'oh s--t we're tied up'. When you're flowing, you don't want to be thinking about things"

[SNY Knicks @sny_knicks]

Jalen Brunson is asked if he, as a star, is bothered at all by not having the ball in his hands as the Knicks' offense adapts:

"One, I'm not a star. Two, I want to win."

[Steven Adams Stats @funakistats]

Steven Adams sharing the technique he uses for helping with self-doubt…

“I write down how I feel… the raw emotions. I stop, re-read it and respond in a different colour. The one with the raw emotion I imagine as a 10 year-old Steven. My response is an adult Steven… it’s like I’m giving advice to a younger Steven”

[Basketball Playbook @bballplaybook5]

4-Across | Iverson Curl Flare Shuffle ✍️

https://t.co/HbEGcSFuM7

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

[Buckets Basketball @BucketsBball_]

Michigan | Iverson - Spain

A great set from the National champions!

[Night Sky Today @NightSkyToday]

🚨: The observable universe is more than 93 billion light-years wide… yet humans have only traveled 1.3 light-seconds away from Earth.😮

[Steven Karr @SKarrG0]

UConn running horns into a mid post and flare screen is absolutely sick. This is elite level stuff.

[AJ Investment Research @alojoh]

It's not about how much money a company actually makes, it's all about how much money people believe a company will make in the future. Whether that money is ever generated is also not important as long as those beliefs don't fade. This is a key concept to internalise if you want to win in stock markets.

[Alex Svan @AlexSvanArt]

This thought just hit me hard…
Left photo, my father is somewhere there and I’m not.
Right photo - I’m there but he isn’t.
Time moves forward slowly and quietly replacing us - temporary passengers on this beautiful spaceship

[Cheng Lou @_chenglou]

My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):

I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept):
Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow

[YUNG JEFF 🗡️ @YUNGJEFF]

Not to sound like a straight up Redditor but this shit just actually gave me chills

LUFFY IS THE ONE

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Most people are getting this wrong. It's not being coached hard or soft...it's a coach saying the right thing at the right time to get them out of a spiral. And focus them on what matters.

When you're in that spiral, your attention scatters. You're replaying mistakes, drifting into the future, losing the moment.

Frese disrupted it in two ways.

First, she walked directly to Okanawa, locked eyes, and forced her to focus and connect with her in the present.

Second, she gave confidence AND agency.

"I believe in you...But you've got to want this moment." This isn't my story..."

She didn't say, "What are you doing...get your head in the game." Those feed the spiral, giving your brain evidence that it's all going wrong. Akin to telling a nervous person to "just relax."

In our lowest moments, we need a signal that someone still sees what we're capable of. And then gives us the agency and challenge to go get it.

She scored 7 points in the third quarter after that exchange, added 6 more in the fourth, and finished with a team-high 21.

Maryland still lost. But Okananwa showed up.

It was a brilliant display of snapping a player out of everything scattering towards catastrophe:

"Really what that was, was a regroup moment for myself and her telling me she believed in me. Sometimes that's really all you need to hear."

Research backs this up.

Psychologists at the University of Amsterdam found that whatever emotional state coaches expressed predicted their players' emotional state and subsequent performance.

Angry coaches produced frustrated players who made more errors.

Another study of basketball players found that low to moderate anger targeted at a specific problem could improve performance.

Raw, undirected intensity made things worse. Targeted intensity that was aimed at something solvable worked.

Texas A&M football coach Mike Elko put it this way: "My job is to be calm and collected when they're frantic. My job is to create intensity when they're not intense. My job is to always be opposite the moment."

The leader's job is the counterbalance.

Frese saw her star's attention drifting when the moment called for focus and controlled fire.

So she brought the intensity Okananwa wasn't generating on her own.

Most people see the intensity and think that's the important takeaway. It's not.

It's just one tool used in a specific moment.

Frese said it herself after the game: "You can't have those conversations if you don't have a relationship with them."

It's the relationship underneath that gives you the ability to use the right tool at the right time.

Sometimes that tool is direct eye contact and I believe in you.

Other times, it's taking a calm breath with and a reminder that I value you as a human, not just an athlete.

Or, as I had one athlete request one time, "Just cuss me out in the last 400. Tell me it's worth dying for..."

Sometimes you pull out the crazy if that disrupts the cycle.

Know your athlete. Build the relationship. Then know when to disrupt the cycle and focus them on the work at hand.

[Eiichiro Oda @TheEiichiroOda]

"Do I deserve this?" "Am I worthy of this?"
So irrelevant. Do you want it?

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Rick Pitino was asked what stops people from being great. His answer was one word.

"Ego stops greatness. I call it edging greatness out."

"In a spiritual sense, ego is edging God out. But ego is edging greatness out."

And he made a key distinction:
"I'm not talking about confidence. You have to be a confident person."

"But ego really gets you to where you think you've arrived. You think you know it all. You stop learning. You stop listening."

That's the trap. Confidence keeps you hungry. Ego convinces you that you've already made it.

You lose your hunger and humility.

"Learning and listening are important for great leaders. Great leaders have to listen and they have to continue to learn and surround themselves with people that are better than them."

EGO = Edging Greatness Out

The moment you think you've arrived is the moment you stop growing.

Stay confident. Stay humble. Never stop learning.
(🎥@LewisHowes )

[Barstool St. John’s @SJUBarstool]

JOHNNIES DONT FATIGUE, JOHNNIES DONT SURRENDER, YOU FUCKING GET AFTER IT

[Math Files @Math_files]

In order to be born, you needed:

2 parents
4 grandparents
8 great-grandparents
16 second great-grandparents
32 third great-grandparents
64 fourth great-grandparents
128 fifth great-grandparents
256 sixth great-grandparents
512 seventh great-grandparents
1,024 eighth great grandparents
2,048 ninth great-grandparents

For you to be born today from 12 previous generations, you needed a total of 4,094 ancestors over the last 400 years.

Think for a moment:
How many struggles?
How many battles?
How many difficulties?
How much sadness?
How much happiness?
How many love stories?
How many expressions of hope for the future? – did your ancestors have to undergo for you to exist in this present moment...

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This paragraph from Carl Jung hits so hard.

“The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them, but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities. The artist who never makes art becomes cynical about those who do. The lover who never risks loving mocks romance. The thinker who never commits to a philosophy sneers at belief itself. And yet, all of them suffer, because deep down they know: the life they mock is the life they were meant to live.”

[New Mentalities @NewMentalities]

"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. So we must stretch ourselves to the very limits of human possibility. Anything less is a sin against both God and man." - Da Vinci