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2 Oct, 13 tweets, 3 min read
I’ve been sharing inspirational threads with lessons I’ve learned along my journey from the NBA to Silicon Valley.

I hope they can help you unlock that next level of performance in yourself and others!

You can read them all below. Enjoy and please share!
1/ Showing Up Is A Skill
2/ No Dream Is Too Big
3/ Luck Is The Residue Of Design
4/ Building A Winning Team
5/ The Hero’s Journey
6/ Impostor Syndrome 101
7/ Hiring The Best Talent
8/ Placebo Effect 101
9/ Next Level Feedback
10/ Transporting People
11/ Be Uncommon
12/ Getting Unstuck

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22 Jun
THREAD: 11 lessons to be uncommon amongst uncommon people.

From coaching a gold medalist, an NBA MVP, and now working with top founders & VC’s…

here’s what I’ve learned about what it takes to stand out:
Be selfish

Your growth requires it.

Routinely take inventory on your ‘circle of five’ - if they’re not pushing you, keep it movin’.

Pour into yourself and eventually the right people will catch up.
Run towards fear

Lean in, build up your threshold incrementally, and find drive in your own fear and insecurities.

Leverage fear as an accelerant to learning.

The stress arousal can trigger a heightened flow state, and unlock superpowers you didn’t know existed.
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18 Feb
THREAD: 7 keys to giving next level feedback

In sports—as in business and life—psychology and language can make all the difference in unlocking the potential of others

Great coaches recognize this and carefully craft their approach, demeanor, and the composition of their words
🔑 Keep the positive personal, make the negative technical

Triumph their wins - draw clear associations b/t their efforts and the successful outcome.

Don’t attach blame to failure - key in on the technical/tactical solution.

Model “extreme ownership” & they will follow.
🔑 Window of opportunity

Timing is everything. What you say is only as effective as *when* you say it.

If emotion is high, they will not be open to internalize critical feedback and this could lead to long-term performance anxiety, or resent.

Resent fractures trust.
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1 Feb
Go to bed at the same time. Turn off your electronics hours before bed. Shower. Meditate. Read. Relax...

Having a bedtime ritual is great in theory. In practice, life happens.

Here are 8 practical strategies I’ve used to help Olympians, Pro’s, and even Average Joe’s 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
1/ 6-7.5-9-10.5

8 hours is outdated. Think in terms of your body’s natural 90min sleep cycles. Wake up in the wrong part and you’ll be groggy much of the day.

Just miss the 9hr window?

You’re better off staying up for one more @netflix episode and settling for 7.5hrs instead.
2/ Beware of your body “re-norming”

It’s easy to rationalize that you can get by on 6hrs - and isolated, that’s true.

Do so for 2 weeks straight?

Your body compares against yesterday. So, while you may feel “normal”, you’ll function on par as you would after 2 days w/o sleep.
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25 Jan
Placebo Effect 101

A snake oil salesman is a trader in lies and false cures. Deceitful, sure. But, is there any harm if it works?

And besides, lost over the years is the inconvenient fact that snake oil did, in fact, work.

Here’s Placebo Effect 101...

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1/ Placebo Effect refers to the phenomenon that occurs when a positive benefit is produced from a ‘placebo’ drug or treatment.

Essentially, because you *believe* the placebo works, your mind activates your body chemistry and the psychological now becomes physiological.
2/ The earliest reported example of the placebo effect occurred in 1799.

Elisha Perkins, a Connecticut surgeon had invented two metal rods which, when rubbed over a painful area were touted to draw disease from the body.

Even George Washington bought a set of Perkins tractors. Image
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18 Jan
Imposter Syndrome 101

What if, I’m not good enough? What if, I try it and fail? What if, I speak up and say something dumb? Surely, I’m out of my league here.

Sound familiar? That annoying inner-voice is more common than you may think.

Here’s Imposter Syndrome 101...

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1/ First, what is it?

Imposter syndrome is a psychological phenomenon in which a person doubts their skills, talents, or accomplishments and has a persistent fear of being exposed as a fraud.

Essentially, you attribute your success to dumb luck and/or believe it is undeserved.
2/ A pair of psychologists, Suzanna Imes & Pauline Clance, first noted this phenomenon in the 1970’s while observing 178 high-achieving women.

Inexplicably, the women had convinced themselves they were not that smart, instead they had simply fooled anyone who thought otherwise.
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28 Nov 20
Today marks 300 consecutive days checking in for my #DailyDeposit workout ritual.

In the process I’ve dropped 17lbs and regained fitness levels of my early 20’s

It might sound crazy, but it’s actually been relatively simple.

Who’s up for a thread?

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1/ First a quick background..

3 years ago, after 10+ yrs in sports - w/ the @chicagobulls & @BoilerBall - I was at the top of my profession.

So I did what any crazy person would do and left it all behind, heading west for Silicon Valley and @futurefitapp an unknown tech startup
2/ That 1st year was really hard. I worked from the time I woke up, until I went to bed. Most days not leaving our basement office til nearly midnight.

I experienced the lowest lows of my life & was failing constantly in an unfamiliar world.

As a result, I quit working out.
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