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Gonçalo Louzada

@gclz

AI and Wellbeing 👨🏻‍💻 | Sports and Music 🏎️

Portugal Katılım Eylül 2009
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Gonçalo Louzada
Gonçalo Louzada@gclz·
@andrecportela É um belo golo, e eu adoro hóquei no gelo mas sempre me fascinou como ficam loucos com golos relativamente comuns no hoquei em patins (tipo "acertar no disco no ar")
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André Portela
André Portela@andrecportela·
Estais para aí todos a partilhar um golo de hóquei no gelo como se fosse uma coisa nunca antes vista porque é no estrangeiro. Sois tão parolinhos, credo 🤦‍♂️
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Steve Magness
Steve Magness@stevemagness·
Team USA just won its first Olympic hockey gold in 46 years. On February 22. The exact anniversary of the Miracle on Ice. Forget the storybook narrative for a second. What happened today is a masterclass in what performance science teaches us about pressure, identity, and legacy. Consider the pressure this team was under. They walked into today carrying 46 years of near misses. The US hadn't won Olympic gold since 1980. They lost the gold medal game in 2002 and 2010...both times to Canada. Last year at the 4 Nations tournament, Canada beat them in overtime. That loss was still raw. The 1980 hero, Mike Eruzione, was in the building. He told the players before the game: "It's just a hockey game." It wasn't. And everyone knew it. Canada outshot the US 41-26. They dominated the second and third periods. Nathan MacKinnon missed an open net. Macklin Celebrini had a breakaway and couldn't convert. Devon Toews had Hellebuyck beaten and somehow the puck stayed out. Then Charlie McAvoy cleared a puck off the goal line with his glove. This was not a dominant performance. It was a team surviving enormous pressure and refusing to break. That distinction matters. How does a team perform under that kind of weight? It starts with the environment the coach creates. Mike Sullivan is now the only American-born coach to win multiple Stanley Cups AND Olympic gold. When he took over the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2015, the team was loaded with talent — Crosby, Malkin, Letang — and completely broken. His description: "There was a dark cloud over the locker room." His first move wasn't a new system or a motivational speech. It was a reframe. He told the team: "There are certain things in life we can control and certain things we can't. We needed to focus on the things that we could control and not dedicate any cognitive resources or worry to things we couldn't control." The team adopted a two-word motto: "Just play." Six months later, they won the Stanley Cup. Tonight, he helped USA do it again on the biggest stage in the world. Sullivan builds what he calls a "safe zone for learning." His video review sessions are explicitly NOT about blame. "We don't want a player walking into our video room on eggshells worried about 'Am I going to be in the film? Is Coach going to yell at me?' It's a game of mistakes. Our responsibility is to learn from them." His guiding principle from his college coach: "Before players want to know what you know, they want to know that you care." It's the difference between compliance and buy-in. Buy-in wins championships. Research backs up Sullivan. Fear-based environments don't produce peak performance. Especially when pressure is already high... They produce anxiety, risk-aversion, and choking. When people feel psychologically safe — when they know mistakes won't be weaponized against them — they take smarter risks, recover faster from errors, and perform better under pressure. We could see it in how Sullivan framed this moment in the weeks before the game. "What an incredible opportunity we have in front of us." Not a burden or expectation...Opportunity. He took the unusual step for a hockey team and kept the team in the Olympic Village instead of a hotel. His reasoning: "The Village is part of the experience." The Hughes brothers roomed together. The Tkachuk brothers roomed together. He didn't try to ignore or isolate them from the pressure. He was embedding them in it, together. And then there's the guy who scored the goal. Jack Hughes came into the Olympics injured, underperforming, slotted on the fourth line. Sullivan moved him up mid-tournament because, as he put it, "We thought by moving him and getting him more ice time, he could impact the game more." Hughes's response: "I believe in myself more than anyone. Wherever I was slotted coming into this thing, I knew I was going to play well." A coach who believed in him when results said otherwise. A player who believed in himself when the lineup said otherwise. Then two teeth got cracked in half by a high stick in the third period. And he scored the golden goal anyway. Everyone's going to remember this as the night the US ended a 46-year drought. On the anniversary. In overtime. Against Canada. But the real lesson is quieter than that. The environment you create determines the performance you get. A safe zone for learning. A focus on controllables. Relationships built on care, not fear. Pressure reframed as opportunity. That's what it looks like when a team is ready, with the right environment and support to tackle the ghosts of history. They built a culture where a team could survive 41 shots and a kid with two broken teeth could score the biggest goal of his life. The 1980 Miracle was about belief overcoming talent. Today was different. Today was talent, preparation, identity, and 46 years of accumulated hunger arriving at the same moment. -Steve
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J.P. Hovey
J.P. Hovey@jhovey34·
This will go down as the most heart wrenching clip of the year. Johnny Gaudreau gets to look down from heaven and see his kids celebrate a gold medal w/ Team USA and his parents soak it in from the stands. That hockey brotherhood is special 🙏🏼
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Gonçalo Louzada
Gonçalo Louzada@gclz·
@joaomopborba Só vamos sofrer ainda mais com a esperança, mas quem é do Sporting está treinado 🙈
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Weather Watcher
Weather Watcher@WXWatcher07·
I beg your finest pardon…
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José Morgado
José Morgado@josemorgado·
Stan Wawrinka. 40 years old. We will miss this backhand
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João
João@joaomopborba·
Um ano sem este lixo
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Luke
Luke@LukeFF1Fantasy·
FINAL LOCK IN 🔒 - Sitting at 4.6k, going for different! - Not the most synergistic team of the year but $1.4m in bank can FF to BEA from OCO, to PIA from RUS and VER to NOR PIA,TSU out VER, OCO in Good luck everyone! #f1fantasy
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Gonçalo Louzada
Gonçalo Louzada@gclz·
Final day of #f1fantasy and tough decisions to end the season! 1️⃣ Keep PIA, SAI+HAD>BEA+HUL 2️⃣ -10 , PIA, SAI, HAD>VER, HUL, ALO Leaning towards 2️⃣ just because it's funnier, even tho I have a very short lead on my private league. Trying to jump to top 4k 🌍 and top 100 🇵🇹
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João Barbosa
João Barbosa@jpgbarbosa·
@brakeboosted cc @ Johan Elkann I'd like you to shut up and if "you've got a problem, change your f*cking car"
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brakeboosted
brakeboosted@brakeboosted·
do I need to say anything?
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Formula God
Formula God@formula1god·
LMAOOOOO So at every Las Vegas Grand Prix, there is a chapel where people can get married AND VALTTERI BOTTAS DECIDED TO WALK THE BRIDE DOWN THE AISLE FOR A WEDDING TODAY 🤣🤣
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Gonçalo Louzada
Gonçalo Louzada@gclz·
This week on #f1fantasy ended up just moving ALO and BOR for OCO and GAS, kept RUS NOR SAI. So far nice but this weekend has all the ingredients to be chaotic 😁
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Gonçalo Louzada
Gonçalo Louzada@gclz·
@BarDown @FromEastLansing Hockey fan here, check some roller/rink hockey highlights from the last 3 years in Portugal/Spain :) Different games (sticks are different, ball vs puck) but the speed and skill are there. I've watched hockey my whole life and it inspired my roller hockey moves !
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BarDown
BarDown@BarDown·
Nashville Predators prospect Ryker Lee pulls off one of the filthiest moves you’ll ever see 🤯🤮 (via @FromEastLansing)
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Gonçalo Louzada
Gonçalo Louzada@gclz·
277 Pts, slight dip in my rankings but still top 2k 🌍and top 100 🇵🇹, could've been worse. I reminder for me to go with my gut more often instead of overanalyzing! Small break before the Triple Header to end the season! 🎰 @F1 #f1fantasy
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Gonçalo Louzada
Gonçalo Louzada@gclz·
The good side of not having remaining Chips on @F1 #f1fantasy is that my team is a 🔒 and I don't have to worry anymore 😂
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Gonçalo Louzada
Gonçalo Louzada@gclz·
@ReinBerglund Moving BOR seems to have been the right move - I was scared he would make mistakes due to home race pressure, but took the risk - I would've gone for GAS as I like his history in 🇧🇷, even tho BER secures budget. Good luck for the rest of the weekend!
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Rein Fantasy
Rein Fantasy@ReinBerglund·
TEAM LOCKED 🔒 FOR 🇧🇷 VER+BOR -> NOR+BEA Scary selling Ver before rain and Bor before the inevitable home race DOTD masterclass, but these are the moves. Sets me up well for Vegas and beyond as well! Saving 1 transfer. #F1Fantasy
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Gonçalo Louzada
Gonçalo Louzada@gclz·
At least I did listen to my gut and didn't go with PIA 🙏🏻 How did y'all go? #f1fantasy
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