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🔴⚫ Niagara Falls lit up in red, black and white in honour of Manchester United's visit to America 💪 | #mufc
At a time of physician shortages, primary care shortages, real impacts on Canadians and significant gaps and challenges in health care systems across the country, this kind of rhetoric from the Government should be questioned.
“Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland dismissed those complaints Tuesday, saying physicians are at the “very, very top” of the income scale and so can afford to pay more taxes.”
#recruitment? #retention?
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There is so much you can learn about organizational performance and culture from sports teams. Great case studies for creating cultures of excellence at the highest level.
Graham Potter should not be defined by anything that happened at Chelsea and Pochettino is obviously a very good manager. It's staggering the mess Boehly has made of Chelsea and it's not clear how they get out of this. They are loaded with expensive players on huge contracts that last years.
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As we look back celebrating some of our best moments of 2023, we look forward to all to come in 2024.
Let's do a giveaway. RT this for a chance for you and a guest to play the course that will host the 2024 U.S. Open, Pinehurst No. 2. We'll add a round on The Cradle, a night's accomodations and dinner in the new Carolina Vista Lounge.
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The ∆69-70 pendulum is in the midst of yet another swing.
What makes the alternation from ∆69-70 to S:H69+ S:V70 even more remarkable is that deletions are one-way mutations. They essentially cannot be reversed. There has never been an insertion at S:69-70 in SARS-CoV-2. 1/5
Matt Fitzpatrick @MattFitz94 is putting on a clinic.
If anyone needs a @TheStackSystem referral code let me know 😅
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I didn't grow up with much money.
My mom actually cleaned houses for a living.
She made about $50 per day. But, somehow like so many other amazing moms, she made it work.
I never remember waking up before my mom. She was always working. I started working construction at 13 to try and help, but somehow we always seemed to be behind.
It's also why I started MyGolfSpy. I wanted to take care of her the way she took care of us. Playing an expensive sport like golf was the last thing on my mind.
I did play baseball though but could never afford my own bat. I always just borrowed someone else's when it was my turn to hit.
Buying a set of golf clubs? Wasn't even a thought.
In high school, all my friends played on the golf team and one year convinced me to come try out. Somehow I made the team.
Problem was I had borrowed a set of clubs during the try out. Coach told me I couldn't play in the first match unless I had my own set.
I told him to just to fill my spot with someone else, we just couldn't afford it.
Somehow, one of the people my mom worked for found out I didn't have clubs and couldn't play.
I still remember his name: Mr. Legere.
He called me on the phone and asked me one question, "You ready to go win your first match?".
"Yes, sir", I said. And that was it.
He said "good luck," and we got off the phone, thinking nothing of it.
A few days later though a big box showed up in the mail. It was from Mr. Legere.
It was a brand new full set of golf clubs, bag and all. I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe someone would give up a full set of clubs just so a kid like me could give golf a try.
I would have never made it to that match if it wasn't for him and most likely would have never played another round of golf in my life.
I think back to that day and the impact it still has on my life, even now. My entire career has now been golf, and for the rest of it, I want to help more people like Mr. Legere helped me.
If you know anyone who can't afford a set of clubs but wants to play the game of golf please send an email to [email protected]
I would love to hear their story and help support a few other kids like he did for me.
Sincerely,
Adam Beach
Owner MyGolfSpy
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Fascinating but not surprising: "For every £1 put into '#upstream' NHS services in places with historically poor funding, including primary care settings & wider community treatment, there is a return of up to £14 to area’s Gross Value Added (GVA) output."
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Who wants to win a FREE online lesson?
I’m feeling generous today. Retweet this and make sure you’re following me. I’ll pick 2 lucky winners on Sunday evening 👌
This applies to so much in life. Studying for and sitting a Royal College exam is just one example for me.
With 1.9 seconds left in overtime of Game 5 of the 2006 NBA Finals, Dwyane Wade went to the free throw line.
Wade & the Heat were down by 1. The series was tied 2-2.
He told Tiger Woods how he prepared to make those high-pressure free throws:
“The night before,” Wade said,
“I was in the gym at midnight.
And I was like, ‘I know games come down to free throws. No matter what happens, it's going to come down to free throws.’
So I was in the gym and I had my cousin standing next to me, I had him right in my ear talking shit to me.
And so the next night, I get in that same situation where I got to make these free throws. And I just went back to last night in the gym. I just went right back to that. I was like, ‘I just hit 200 of these last night. I got this.’"
"That's so good," Tiger says.
"It's like," Wade says, "your confidence comes from your work."
"Correct," Tiger replies.
Wade: "You've done it over and over. You've seen yourself do it."
Tiger: "Correct, thousands of times."
Wade hit the two free throws, and the Heat won 101-100 to take a 3-2 series lead. Then in Game 6, he had 36 points to help the Heat win the game and their first championship in franchise history. Wade was named NBA Finals MVP.
Takeaway 1:
Ryan Holiday likes to say,
"Belief in yourself is overrated. Generate evidence."
Wade simulated the situation so that when he was in that situation for real, he had the evidence.
“You've done it over and over,” he told himself. “You've seen yourself do it.”
Your confidence comes from your work, from your evidence.
Takeaway 2:
What Dwayne Wade figured out intuitively—that confidence is a function of the previous work put in—is scientifically accurate.
For nearly three decades, the neuroscientist Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett has been studying where emotions—calmness, panic, nervousness, and so on—come from.
Her bestselling book, "How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain," gets its title from the discovery that emotions are constructed by the brain.
"In every waking moment," she writes, "your brain uses past experience to guide your present sensations."
In every waking moment, your brain sifts through its library of past experiences, looking for something similar to what is currently happening. If your brain can’t find anything in your past that is similar to your present, you are in a state of what brain scientists call “experiential blindness.”
If you are at the free-throw line with the game on the line, for instance, and you start to panic—you’re in a state of experiential blindness. Your brain, Dr. Barrett would say, is calling you out. You didn't put in the work. You didn't form the past experience needed for your brain to be able to say, as Wade was able to say, "I just hit 200 of these last night. I got this."
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“You are continually cultivating your past…the experiences you have today become the past that your brain uses to make predictions for tomorrow.” — Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett
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It’s Open week ⛳️- Tiger & Poulter join Roy Keane & Jamie Carragher in the sky studio talking all things GOLF 😳The action is live from Thursday on @SkySports @SkySportsGolf @SkyIreland #ad
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My daughter is heading to college in the fall, and it appears that she, like many, did not get assigned to their requested dorm or with requested roommate.
Dads across America upon hearing this news: “It’ll be fine. In 4 years you’ll probably look back and say it was best thing that could’ve happened.”
Moms in the school Facebook group…
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A risk of gaining expertise is focusing so much on answering questions that you stop questioning your answers.
It’s called cognitive entrenchment. As you get stuck in old schemas, you miss new ideas.
The antidote isn't to deepen your knowledge. It's to broaden your perspective.
