Josh Chambers
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Econ Major | Director of Process @TerrapinHoops 🐢🏀 | This is a human nature account disguised as a sports account.
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Sean McVay on what has become non-negotiable when evaluating players: “There are certain things that have to be non-negotiables. What’s your football character like? I think that more than anything, especially because of some of the things I’ve gone through where I look back and say, ‘Man, I did not like the kind of leader or the caliber of person I was. I was fragile. I wasn’t resilient. The game honors toughness, but I think life and the game honor toughness, both mentally and physically. How many different ways can we measure that mental resilience?" "What have they been through, and how did that shape who they’ve become in the midst of the journey?” “When you go through each guy and have a personal message of appreciation and gratitude for him, the consistent theme is that everybody who has had any sort of success has experienced some adversity. Maybe when you’re in it, you don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel, but if it shapes you and callouses you the right way, growth demands that discomfort.” “You don’t punish people who haven’t been through adversity, but I also think it’s important for guys to know, ‘We’re in this shit with you, too. Let’s build a relationship.’” “Chris Petersen always used to say to me, ‘It’s really important that all our players know they’ll never meet the enemy on the sideline.’ I’d like to think the connection, the camaraderie and the enjoyment of each other’s success are what you see when you watch our group play. That’s the type of people we’re trying to identify.”
Josh Chambers634,307 Aufrufe • vor 20 Stunden
Alright 🔥 I'm watching this Tom Brady clip on overcoming self-defeating attitudes and taking ownership of your situation every morning after I wake up this week to get juiced 🔋 up: Do the best with what you've got, not with what you wish you had. The moment you stop blaming circumstance, is the moment you start getting better. 📈 Energy, attitude, and effort are choices. Ownership is the foundation they all rest on. 💪
Josh Chambers215,570 Aufrufe • vor 10 Tagen
LeBron's (LeBron James) definition of discipline explains PERFECTLY why he is GREAT 🦁👑: 🔄 Discipline is the willingness to make hard tradeoffs. It means saying "no" to things you genuinely love so you can say "yes" to becoming someone you desire to be. 💔 Sometimes that means less comfort, fewer nights with friends, missed family events, or sacrificing immediate gratification in pursuit of long-term growth. Greatness will always come with heavy opportunity costs. 💪🏼 Discipline is the muscle that allows you to resist temptation when your emotions want to negotiate with your habits. It exposes whether you're committed to the outcome and genuinely in love with the process. It reveals if your habits match your dreams. Anyone can chase a dream when it's exciting. The disciplined keep showing up when the excitement fades, because they've learned the person they're becoming can provide more for themselves and their loved ones more than the one they're leaving behind. ✨
Josh Chambers203,739 Aufrufe • vor 22 Tagen
Tom Brady on the most common trait elite performers share: They want to be held accountable. The best understand that preparation must carry urgency. You may only have three practices before the game, and every one of them has to move you closer to being ready. There are no wasted reps. No casual days. No assuming you can fix it tomorrow. The margin is too small. Whether it’s the NFL, college sports, or business, someone else is preparing with purpose. Every rep has to carry weight because every rep becomes part of your performance and/or pushes reps further down the line. Great leaders establish that standard where the floor of the team is an urgent one.
Josh Chambers27,134 Aufrufe • vor 4 Tagen
When I was in high school, my dad was diagnosed with ALS. 💔 For four years, I helped care for him while watching someone I loved slowly lose the ability to do the things most of us take for granted. Eventually he passed away a few weeks before he was supposed to watch me graduate... 😔 At the time, it definitely felt unfair. Painful. Heavy. What San Francisco 49ers Head Coach Kyle Shanahan talks about in this clip is something I think everyone eventually learns, and I had to learn at a young age: Experiences aren’t inherently good or bad. They’re neutral. They’re simply information. ⏳Time always reveals what they were preparing you for. So many of the skills I rely on today: perspective, resilience, empathy, patience, gratitude... Were all forged in that season I lost my Dad. Being his primary caretaker alongside my mom, I got a masters level course whether I wanted it or not in teamwork, communication, and what "hard" really meant. I learned a ton of intangible skills but also tangible skills in passing the time at his bedside: design skills, computer skills, and read/wrote A TON. 📚 These skills certainly helped me break into the competitive industry of sports. That experience changed the trajectory of my family’s life. What once felt like tragedy also carried gifts I couldn’t see in the moment, and now am quite thankful for. That's not easy to process, but incredibly powerful to understand. Kyle's dad got fired, he was hurting. That period of time sparked the desire to go work for him if he ever got the chance. An experience he's now eternally grateful for, that has opened doors for him and his family he never dreamed of. 🚪 🧑🌾 Much like the old Chinese farmer story, every event in our lives should be followed by the same response: “Maybe. We’ll see.” Here's why I think we should all say that daily: 🏔️ Pain Often Arrives Disguised as Preparation. When Mike Shanahan was fired in by the Washington Commanders, Kyle Shanahan admits it crushed him. Growing up, his father’s success had become intertwined with his own identity. Watching him struggle forced Kyle to confront a difficult truth about his own ego: his dad’s legacy wasn’t defined by wins, losses, or job titles. And neither would his be. 🎭 Stop Labeling Experiences Too Quickly. It's human nature, we rush to categorize everything. Promotion? Good. Failure? Bad. Opportunity? Good. Setback? Bad. But life rarely is static. Experiences are simply inputs. Their meaning is often revealed years later, when you see looking back, what you were once looking for. 🏈 Detours Build the Skills the Destination Requires. Kyle Shanahan later realized that his father being fired was one of the greatest blessings of his life because it afforded him an opportunity few people ever get: the chance to coach alongside his dad. The very experience that once caused pain gave him wisdom, perspective, and memories he otherwise never would have had. 🪞Let Adversity Clarify What You Love. Kyle describes eventually letting go of ego, legacy, and outside validation. Underneath all of it, he discovered something simple: he just loved football. He loved coaching. And once he stopped needing the journey to look perfect, he was finally able to enjoy it. The experiences that hurt you most are often stripping away who you think you need to be so you can become who you’re meant to become. The hardest seasons of your life may not be interruptions to your story. They may be the chapters that make the rest of it possible.
Josh Chambers76,643 Aufrufe • vor 12 Tagen
Tom Brady’s (Tom Brady) no-excuse mindset: 🧱 Every response to an outcome is a brick. Accountability is bricks laid on the road toward where you want to go. 🛣️ 🚧 Excuses are bricks stacked into walls that keep you from getting there. “It’s my fault. I have to do better.” Excuses may feel good for five seconds, but they never change the result. Ownership creates initiative. And that initiative helps you find a way to win.
Josh Chambers46,071 Aufrufe • vor 8 Tagen
Dan Hurley on the two personas every head coach must master: The Jockey 🏇, and the Corner Man. 🥊 In practice — you are the jockey. You push. You challenge. You demand more than they think they have. You stretch them past comfort so execution becomes inevitable. On game night — you become the corner man. You steady. You simplify. You remind them who they are. Confidence replaces correction. Preparation is where you build them. Performance is where you believe in them.
Josh Chambers633,202 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
Denver Denver Broncos Head Coach Sean Payton on the first 3 steps of building a winning culture is leadership GOLD : 1️⃣ Master the mundane. The easiest place to gain an advantage is where no one is looking. Most organizations compete for the obvious wins while leaving thousands of unnoticed opportunities untouched. But culture is built in those margins. A few extra percentage points here. A little less slippage there. Over time, what appears insignificant in isolation becomes impossible to overcome in accumulation. 2️⃣ Hire people who see what others ignore. The greatest teammates and staff members have it ingrained in their brains that small things become big things. They don't need constant reminders because they naturally protect that standard. When everyone values the details, you can delegate with confidence knowing there will be little drift, little spillage, and very little lost in translation. 3️⃣ Run toward the challenge. Great cultures don't avoid hard things, they feed on them. Sustained excellence comes from learning to convert difficulty into energy because they know every challenge is another opportunity to separate themselves from the competition. Hard, tired, adversity, boring, long, difficult, they're all signals of progress and great cultures are addicted to progression. The culture you build is nothing more than what your people are willing to care about when nobody has to care. 🐎
Josh Chambers71,574 Aufrufe • vor 15 Tagen
Urban Meyer (Urban Meyer) on why great leaders "Train For Hard.": One of the most overlooked responsibilities of leadership is preparing people for moments that haven't happened yet. If your people can do it comfortably, they can do it on their own. So Coach Meyer believed Ohio State Football practice should be reserved for the things that are difficult. The things that require discipline. Those are the things that create growth. 💪 Toughness isn't developed when conditions are ideal. It's developed through repeated exposure to adversity. From that adversity you develop scars and calluses. Those things allow you to elevate to new levels of "hard". Because "hard" is always going to be relative. What's hard to you might be "easy" to someone else who trains different. That's true in sports, business, and life. The moment you need resilience is not the moment you build it. The moment you need courage is not the moment you develop it. The moment you need composure is not the moment you learn it. You either prepared for that moment beforehand or you didn't. 📈 Great leaders understand that training is not about today's challenge. It's about tomorrow's crisis! When you're down a touchdown in the 4th quarter. When a key player gets hurt. When a project falls apart. When revenue drops. When the pressure rises. Those moments don't create your culture. They REVEAL your culture. Adversity doesn't care whether you're ready or not. The job description of Leadership is to make sure you and your team are. 🔥
Josh Chambers112,576 Aufrufe • vor 28 Tagen
Defending National Champion Indiana Football head coach Curt Cignetti (Curt Cignetti) explanation for Indiana's rapid transformation is a CLINIC in leadership: "If what you did yesterday seems important to you, you haven't done much today." 🍫🤯 👥 What changes results? People, Plan, Process. Results begin with people. Recruit high-character individuals (coaches and players), develop them relentlessly, and unite them around a shared vision. Talent may raise your ceiling, but character determines whether your team can consistently reach it! 📈 Culture can drift toward mediocrity by accident, but great cultures NEVER drift upward by accident. They are engineered through high standards, clear expectations, and accountability. As Coach Cignetti says, "How you do something is how you do everything." Every meeting, workout, practice, conversation, and decision is either reinforcing your standard or eroding it. 📚 Elite organizations are consumed with stacking value. They stack productive meetings, intentional practices, disciplined preparation, and consistent execution, they literally stack great days. Championships are simply the delayed byproduct of thousands of ordinary moments handled extraordinarily well. 🧠 The job of a coach leader: "The only limitations are those between your ears, and that's my job, to make sure those don't exist." Leadership is about expanding what people believe is possible and replacing self-imposed ceilings with confidence built through preparation. Yesterday's success is evidence, not a residence. The best teams refuse to live off old victories. They celebrate briefly, learn continuously, and return to work immediately. Every new day is another opportunity to earn the standard all over again. The scoreboard is always a lagging indicator. 🏆
Josh Chambers103,106 Aufrufe • vor 27 Tagen
Former NFL Linebacker Will Compton was PREACHING in this segment with Notre Dame Football about Creating Evidence. A must watch regardless of title, age, or industry: 👮♂️ You start with BELIEF, you stand on EVIDENCE. Facts don't care about feelings. When you get there, nobody cares HOW you got there, they care about how you can HELP. 👨⚖️ One Rep ➡️ One Day ➡️ One Week ➡️ One Game ➡️ One Year. At the end of the year, you're graded and judged by the evidence of your WORK. Evidence doesn't just arrive, it's acquired and accumulated everyday. It’s never one moment, it’s the accumulation of all of them. 🏷️ Let Proof Override Labels. Creating Evidence isn't about running from the truth, it's about creating so much proof that past labels become irrelevant. 🧵 Everything matters. Every rep has meaning. Even when you can't see it. Too tired, too emotional, too worn out to see or hear it, but it still means something. So you must TIE meaning to it. The smallest action either adds to your case or subtracts from it, tie purpose to all of it. 🖋️ Facts are permanent, but they do not define who you are, or who you have to be in the future. The truth is the starting point, not the ceiling. Face it, use it, and build forward, the obstacle is the way.
Josh Chambers368,206 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander on consistency being a muscle you can grow, what discipline is, and why you can't only have it in times of prosperity: 💪 Consistency isn’t a trait you’re born with, it’s a muscle you build. Every time you follow through when it’s inconvenient, you add another rep. The strength doesn't show up until at some point in the future, but it’s earned in the now. 😁 Anyone can be consistent in times of prosperity. The real separator is doing the work when motivation disappears. That’s where identity is truly formed, you find out who you are, not in the spotlight, but in the resistance. 📌 Discipline is doing what matters most when you least feel like acting on it. If you only rely on consistency in good times, it becomes a crutch. If you train it in hard times, it becomes a competitive advantage. Champions aren’t determined by flashes of greatness, but by how RARELY they drift below their standard of success. They don’t use the consistency muscle in a reactionary way, instead they train it daily so the habit of success has somewhere to live. 🏠
Josh Chambers233,431 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
Coach Urban Meyer on the difference between motivated teams and inspired teams: Motivation ⚡️ is powerful, but temporary. It can come from fear. A rival. A speech. A new jersey combination. The roar of the crowd. Motivation gets people to do things they don't want to do... for a moment. Inspiration 🔥 is different. It doesn't rely on external pressure because it's built on two things that never run out: ❤️ Love. 🤝 Ownership. Inspired teams don't play for the program, they play as the program. They don't say, "This is where I work." They say, "This is ours." Motivation fades in the second half when adversity hits. Ownership doesn't. Love doesn't. Anyone can create urgency. The best leaders create belonging. Because when people love each other and take ownership of the mission, they don't let go of the rope. Motivation gets effort. Inspiration creates commitment to effort. 💯
Josh Chambers77,759 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
I'm convinced Duke Women’s Basketball Coach Kara Lawson is one of the best leaders in sports. This clip on urgency, growth not being linear, and the idea that there is no finish line is superb: 🥱 Need It > Want It. The people who win aren’t always the most gifted, they’re the ones who refuse to look away from what’s required RIGHT NOW. They stay present with the hard, the boring, and the uncomfortable, and they attack anyway. Wanting shows up when it’s convenient; needing shows up when it costs you something. 📈📉 Growth isn’t a straight line. There will be peaks that tempt your ego and valleys that test your belief. Real leadership is keeping your urgency and sharpness intact through all of it. Trusting that consistency is what will carry you through. Don't let your own impatience with stagnancy take your spirit. 🏁 There is no finish line where you finally get to coast, only new levels that ask more of you. Better is a direction, not a destination. The “ceiling” you feel is often just an imaginary story you’ve told yourself about what’s possible. Growth asks for the endurance to keep going and the humility to treat every day, every season, every year as another chance to get better. Bring urgency to the way you show up every day. Don't ever give up on your own growth. 🌱
Josh Chambers177,980 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
Kobe's speech to Alabama Football in 2016 will always be legendary and packed with timeless wisdom for leaders: 🐍 Edit your life. If your habits, relationships, routines, or distractions don't align with who you say you want to become, ELIMINATE THEM. Simple as that. That clarity will help you create commitment in your life. 🎥 Excellence begins with curiosity. You have passion to learn but you have to stoke it like a fire in order to grow. The separation isn't talent, it's the willingness to OBSESS over details others overlook. Kobe didn’t watch film just to confirm what happened. He watched to uncover what could happen. He was feeding his curiousity. What if the defense adjusts? What if the first option gets taken away? What counter exists after the counter? Anticipate, prepare, and think multiple moves ahead. ⚡ Excellence isn't an event, it's an identity. Kobe believed coasting against weaker competition only creates bad habits because standards don't change based on the opponent. If you want to perform at an elite level when it matters most, you have to practice excellence when nobody's watching. Everybody wants to be the beast, but not everybody wants to do what the beast does. Fall in love with the process, because the habits you repeat eventually become the person you are. 🐻
Josh Chambers80,542 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
Lane Kiffin with an outside the box philosophy on culture building, the concept of environment as a strategy, and how people don't "buy-in" more than they 'belong': 🔓 The fastest way to change behavior isn’t motivation, it’s environment. Leadership is about creating the conditions where people feel safe, valued, and inspired. When the environment is right, performance doesn't need to be forced; it’s unlocked. 🌅 People don’t commit to a job, they commit to a feeling. If your environment makes them feel like they belong, they’ll want to show up. If it makes them feel managed, they’ll only show up when they have to. 🎨 The trajectory of a team is set long before the results show up. It’s shaped in the culture you tolerate, the standards you reinforce, and the environment you DESIGN every single day. The environment you create doesn’t just influence behavior, it determines identity. Once people see themselves differently, they develop different habits to align with that belief and push them toward their goals. 🎯
Josh Chambers190,120 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
This moved me! Fear is often mistaken for danger. But sometimes fear is simply a signal that the opportunity is large enough to change your life. When Coach P. J. Fleck (P.J. Fleck) was deciding whether to leave comfort for a bigger challenge, his wife asked one question: “Does it scare you?” “Hell yeah.” Her response: “We’re going.” 🦫 Coach Fleck says there is a difference between making a living and building a life. A living is what you earn. 💵 A life is what you create. 🏡 The decisions that scare you most often ask you to trade short-term comfort for long-term meaning. If it scares you, it means it matters. Growth rarely feels comfortable. Fear is not always a warning. Sometimes it is an invitation to build a life bigger than the one you’ve settled for. Minnesota Football has a great one. ⬇️
Josh Chambers153,428 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
Curt Cignetti on his program's philosophy on how not to be average: 🎭 Average is a decision disguised as a default. Make standards visible, measurable, and non-negotiable. Because what you tolerate becomes your identity. 🤝 Most people negotiate with the work; elite teams eliminate the negotiation. The gap isn’t talent, it’s the daily refusal to accept “good enough” in reps, details, and accountability. 🧱 You don’t rise above average in big moments, you escape it in small ones. Every meeting, drill, and conversation is either reinforcing the standard, or quietly lowering it.
Josh Chambers204,713 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
Hall of Fame Coach Dawn Staley on the business of winning, loving someone enough to let them fail, and living everyday with zero margin: 💎 You don’t have to be for everybody to be right for your people. Leadership isn’t a popularity contest, it’s a courage practice! When you’re crystal clear on who you are and what you stand for, you can lead with conviction. And that becomes a magnet for people who want to be part of something real. 🏺 Tell the truth, even when it costs you comfort. We're in the business of winning. And winning built on half-truths is fragile; it cracks under pressure. Real leaders choose honesty over image, because trust, not talent—is what holds a team together when things get hard. ❤️ Care enough to step back. Loving someone isn’t rescuing always them from failure, it’s standing close enough to support, but far enough to let them struggle, adapt, and discover their own strength. Growth doesn’t come from protection; it comes from earned resilience. 📆 Respect the weight of every day. There is no neutral, only progress or erosion. When you give away a day because you're not all the way there mentally, someone else is investing it, and preparing to take what you’re not protecting. Own your identity without apology! The moment you start shrinking to be digestible, you lose the very edge that makes you effective. You're not in the politics business, you're in the people business. The right people don’t need you to be everything, they need you to be authentically you, CONSISTENTLY and without COMPROMISE.
Josh Chambers149,306 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
