Brian M Korinek

I’m a neuroscientist. You’d never keep your dog inside for 10 hours without a walk, skip its meals, or keep it up all night - so why treat your brain that way? Take yourself for a walk.

I am 82 years young today, and feeling so grateful. This past year has made me reflect on the gift of this life. Thank you to each person who has been part of this incredible journey: my family, friends, teammates, colleagues, and the countless people who inspire me daily. And most especially, Ilana, my partner in all things. I’ve spent my life believing in the power of sport to change the world. I’m as energized as ever to keep striving for equality, inclusion, and opportunity for all. Here’s to more learning and more listening, and of course, more joy along the way. Let's go, 82. I'm ready for you. 📷: Nikki Holland

Listen to this interaction between Coach K and Kobe Bryant in the 2008 Olympics “Those are Lakers shots, not shots that are trying to win a Gold Medal. I can’t let you take them” “Is that all? I agree. I won’t take them” Players want accountability

Kobe at 4 A.M. Steph Curry chasing five perfect swishes. Coach K writing a 60-second thank-you note. Different stories. Same truth. 🏀 Greatness lives in the basics. 🎥 Full story in the video

Kobe Bryant said something that changed my life: “The best never get bored with the basics.” That’s how mastery is built — during the unseen hours. 🎥 Watch this legendary story.

Clip from Vice Sports of Rick Pitino at halftime of the St. John's game at Providence. #sjubb was down big, and rallied to win.

Coaches: warm players up mentally before or after you help them do a physical warm-up. How? Ask them questions... You can make these questions super simple (what - see picture below) You can make these questions a little more complicated (how - see picture below) Then what? Ask players to picture their answers for 30 seconds By doing so you're helping them run an inner movie that helps them feel a greater sense of readiness for training Next, get them sharing their answers with team mates for 30 seconds. This drives communication and teamwork

Want to know the hack to High Performance? THERE ISN’T ONE Everything in a High Performance environment is earned Every single success and failure is earned 🧠 💪

Tools for coaches… Scaffolding (learning supports) Variability Randomness To help a player low on confidence you might scaffold an activity by stripping away information and present them with an easy-to-accomplish task… And then start to strip away scaffolds adding in variability and randomness to make the activity higher in specificity (it contains more of the informational sources in the actual game)… Note: clip taken from @BBallImmersion podcast

“If you go to class & you do average work, you get a C, that’s why it’s called average. If you want a B, you have to do more work & if you want an A you have to do even more work. You have to give up stuff, you have to sacrifice.” ―Geno Auriemma #TheLeadersMind 🏆 amazon.com/Leaders-Mind-Prep…

“I just try to stay still…” The late, great Kobe Bryant draws out his strategy to deal with unhelpful emotion. A sophisticated approach to a complex problem! His thoughts, emotions, feelings…whispering their distractions as he competes…but he refuses to comply…he refuses to be controlled by emotion… He simply accepts their presence…and makes a choice! But this is a hard choice, or at least, it’s hard to get into a position to make a choice. It takes skills and competencies, it takes self-awareness and flexibility of attention, and it takes practice and mastery, practice and mastery, practice and mastery.

This is what discipline looks like in High Performance 👇🏻 🎥: @michaelgervais

Are you writing the story or is the story writing you? You always have the chance to be the author when you control what you can and choose your best response; whenever you sacrifice those 2 things, you demote yourself to simply being a character in a narrative already written.