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2020/10/08 - Performing at Our Peak as Leaders
[NEW EPISODE] Performing at Our Peak as Leaders
Carmen Bott has been in the sport performance for over 20 years and is considered a leader in exercise prescription and strength coaching for the combative and collision sport athlete population(s).
Carmen holds a bachelor's in Human Kinetics and a Master's degree in Exercise Physiology with a focus in Sports Medicine and Strength & Conditioning. Coach Bott's coaching methods are grounded in science, but it is her 20+ years of experience that allow her to transfer the science into practice.
That practice includes working with leaders on the incremental change that creates massive change so effectively.
Carmen teaches internationally in the field of sport science and performance enhancement and is a Strength & Conditioning Coach with Wrestling Canada, having taken athletes to the Olympic Games and World Championships.
Currently, Carmen offers consulting services to both amateur and professional level athletes and organizations worldwide.
Tune in for this insightful conversation at TalkRadio.nyc or watch the Facebook Livestream by clicking here.
Segment 1
Graham is excited to welcome guest Carmen Bott. Carmen Bott has been in sport performance for over 20 years and is considered a leader in exercise prescription and strength coaching, holding a bachelor's in Human Kinetics and a Master's degree in Exercise Physiology with a focus in Sports Medicine and Strength & Conditioning. She has worked with world and Olympic athletes as well. Carmen dives into more of what her duties are and how she helps students/athletes and talks about how her journey began in this field includes moving to Malaysia as part of a job. And from there how she further got into the combative sports, starting with wrestling. From there she went on to get her Master's and was hired to teach while in grad school. Carmen recently went back to school to learn the mental component of performance.
Graham asks Carmen how to get athlete's into the mindset to keep going. Being that Carmen was in Malaysi Graham asks her how she dealt with the language barrier and coached athletes despite not speaking the same language. Carmen further discusses what she learned about herself going to Malaysia at such a young age training athletes for the Olympics in the games in Sydney. They close this segment with how Carmen gets the growth mindset and curiosity into her students and that students cannot be afraid to fail.
Graham begins this segment asking Carmen about her timeline: Relentless, Resilient and Real. Carmen explains why this is her timeline and her thoughts on the saying "fake it till you make it." They further discuss how to measure things like resilience, relentlessness or other mental components which is not clear as measuring the physical goals. They close this segment talking about the differences between winning and success and Carmen's point of view between the two.
They begin this segment discussing what the qualities should be in a coach to be successful. Carmen further talks about how one aspect leaders should have is being self-aware. In the end they close with how Carmen broke in being a female in this field and not traditionally being involved in training female sports. Finally they close with Carmen's 3 traits of leadership.
00:00:27.900 --> 00:00:38.760	Graham Dobbin: Good evening and welcome to the mind behind leadership live here on talk radio dot NYC. My name is Graham Dobbin and every week we look beyond the surface of
00:00:39.180 --> 00:00:46.740	Graham Dobbin: How we become leaders we get behind what it really means to be a leader and how we can influence others that tends to be where most of our talks have gone
00:00:47.340 --> 00:01:00.210	Graham Dobbin: With something more importantly, is how do we influence ourselves that's probably something that's a little bit more difficult at times and this week we tend to sports and the link between the main self sports and businesses as well documented.
00:01:00.720 --> 00:01:06.390	Graham Dobbin: And this week's guests will help us explore how we set ourselves up to perform at our peak performance.
00:01:07.080 --> 00:01:20.100	Graham Dobbin: At all times, whenever we are. So this week's Guess I'm absolutely delighted. We've got Carmen bought, who is a sports performance specialist. Her research is focused on load monitoring and physical performance indicators.
00:01:20.490 --> 00:01:27.750	Graham Dobbin: university level basketball athletes. We she's also worked with both world and Olympic athletes as well.
00:01:28.170 --> 00:01:36.540	Graham Dobbin: Communism evolved into an international educators, she is sought after for a methodology and coaching tactics and performance enhancement.
00:01:36.900 --> 00:01:46.500	Graham Dobbin: For competitive and repeat sprint team sports athletes and after several years of what you were taught wrestlers. So she's not to be messed with I'm going to be really nice tonight.
00:01:46.860 --> 00:01:56.880	Graham Dobbin: I can publish the book the wrestlers he switches sold what all the way she's also a professor at when Ghana college and Simon Fraser University.
00:01:57.420 --> 00:02:09.450	Graham Dobbin: As a physical performance coach Cameron has 20 plus years of hands on experience from the lens to train level to high performance world level while Carmen, welcome.
00:02:10.380 --> 00:02:12.390	Carmen Bott: And he grabbed my pleasure to be here.
00:02:12.810 --> 00:02:24.000	Graham Dobbin: Good to have you. Um, that's a law. You've done a lot, there's a there's a lot going on there that you're that you're involved as 10 account. Can you summarize. Tell us, what do you do, and how did you get there.
00:02:24.690 --> 00:02:36.510	Carmen Bott: Yeah, certainly. I mean, as you were saying all that stuff. I thought I think someone in my field would maybe understand and appreciate some of it, but I think most people, you know, like my mom and dad.
00:02:37.110 --> 00:02:47.040	Carmen Bott: They would be like, What exactly do you do like do you stand with a whistle. Is that what you do and just tell people what to do. So, um, yeah. I mean, currently
00:02:48.210 --> 00:02:56.460	Carmen Bott: I often sort of tell rather than tell people sort of what I do, I, I often say, this is, this is how I help people so I
00:02:57.420 --> 00:03:08.790	Carmen Bott: I helped students. So my hat that I wear at the university and the college as it as an instructor's I help students develop skeptical mindsets and this sort of insatiable curiosity.
00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:28.140	Carmen Bott: And help them think critically about the information that they receive in this era for in have tons of social media and fake news and blah, blah, blah. So, you know, at the university in the college. That's what I do. There. And when I'm not wearing that hat. I am a performance coach.
00:03:29.370 --> 00:03:48.000	Carmen Bott: In sort of two areas. One area is in physical performance. So I think most of your readership would imagine like a personal fitness trainer that happens to work with very, very large humans that have to do things either very fast or for very long periods of time.
00:03:49.140 --> 00:03:58.830	Carmen Bott: You know, and I think that the lay person probably thinks that I, you know, get them in shape and I'm kind of lucky who most of the kids. I work with are already quote unquote in shape.
00:03:59.370 --> 00:04:10.560	Carmen Bott: Because they're already competing at a pretty high level. But we, you know, we're doing some things to try to get them up to that to that next level, you know, maybe they'll world level or even an Olympic level or professional level so
00:04:11.790 --> 00:04:16.020	Carmen Bott: I helped them get ready for that. And then once they're there. I help them stay there.
00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:30.240	Carmen Bott: So that's where I'm not now, but you know, I began this journey, a long time ago I I watched a movie when I was 17 and it was called. Silence of the Lambs. And you're probably thinking
00:04:30.390 --> 00:04:38.070	Carmen Bott: I'm trying to see the kid. I got, what the heck are you talking about, okay, I'll I will get there eventually. But right now, let's just leave some mystery on the table and
00:04:38.670 --> 00:04:54.540	Carmen Bott: I remember watching this woman. The, the actor Jodie Foster do her job and then her job her job in the movie was to interview serial killer to catch another serial killer right to figure out what kind of made this guy tick and what got him.
00:04:55.530 --> 00:05:10.170	Carmen Bott: From A to B, if you will. I thought, Wow, this is a really cool field. I think I'm either going to be a lawyer or or I'm going to do this. So off I went to university and I took a few years of criminal psychology and I didn't enjoy it.
00:05:10.890 --> 00:05:18.390	Carmen Bott: But I had this one course I took as an elective and all the students across campus called this core course jogging for credit
00:05:18.960 --> 00:05:26.280	Carmen Bott: I thought this sounds like an easy day I'm in. I've always been an athlete. This is a good way to stay in shape. Off I go
00:05:26.790 --> 00:05:36.090	Carmen Bott: And it really kind of opened my eyes to a different discipline and not discipline was kinesiology, and I actually did quite well in the course, not just because it was
00:05:36.570 --> 00:05:58.170	Carmen Bott: An easier. A I really liked the material and I was quite good at it. And I thought, you know, it would be really interesting to sit down and talk to you know people that have done very strange things and that's fascinating, but it might not be very positive.
00:05:59.610 --> 00:06:08.460	Carmen Bott: On a day to day work environment. So I guess I had enough wisdom, at the age everything at this time I was 19 or 22 can decide, you know what, let's let's change the path.
00:06:08.850 --> 00:06:17.970	Carmen Bott: Let's go. The Kinesiology route so I switched actually transfer to a different University and finished in undergrad degree in the physical education stream.
00:06:18.510 --> 00:06:31.170	Carmen Bott: And I begged my professors in not stream to let me do all of my sort of practical experience experiential learnings in working with athletes.
00:06:31.410 --> 00:06:37.800	Carmen Bott: In physical performance versus going to like high school and being a gym teacher so I knew I didn't want to do that.
00:06:38.070 --> 00:06:43.890	Carmen Bott: I was very interested in high performance. I was interested in helping athletes get to the next level.
00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:52.410	Carmen Bott: And it wasn't so keen on teaching high school, but I knew if I took the fizz en route, I would learn a lot about different sports that I hadn't maybe played
00:06:52.980 --> 00:07:09.300	Carmen Bott: And and I did. So that's kind of where the undergraduate degree sort of went. And then in my third year I got fired from a job and I hate to admit this but this is not the first time this has happened, I was fired from it.
00:07:09.840 --> 00:07:11.040	Graham Dobbin: People have been fired so
00:07:11.790 --> 00:07:12.600	Carmen Bott: You're right.
00:07:13.170 --> 00:07:23.220	Carmen Bott: It wasn't so good at following their protocols, if you will, with their training methodology. I had other ideas of how I thought people needed to be trained
00:07:23.670 --> 00:07:39.990	Carmen Bott: And at the time I was training you know lawyers and doctors and rich people really that could afford personal training and getting more experience in that area. So I was fired and I that afternoon I went for several years with a friend. And then I ended up
00:07:41.070 --> 00:07:53.550	Carmen Bott: At a party and at that party. I ran into a graduate student. And he said, oh, the gym on campus is actually hiring. Would you like to work with us. And I said, oh, and that would be great.
00:07:54.120 --> 00:08:11.280	Carmen Bott: So I took the job on campus. And then about two weeks into working at the university as an undergraduate. I got a email from the my boss asking me if I'd be interested in moving to Malaysia, like you know week
00:08:12.360 --> 00:08:17.880	Carmen Bott: And I was, I think, at the time 2324 years old and I went, yes, that would be great.
00:08:19.050 --> 00:08:22.110	Carmen Bott: And I found myself on a plane.
00:08:23.340 --> 00:08:29.940	Carmen Bott: A week later, after I got my visa and sort of organized in my passport picture taken all these things.
00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:41.850	Carmen Bott: And ended up on the other side of the world. And I was there were five other Canadians to develop their national team athletes for the Southeast Asian Games on the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
00:08:42.780 --> 00:08:58.170	Carmen Bott: To at this point I had about three years of experience training college level athletes at the university and they were basketball player. So that's what I ended up doing my graduate research on was in basketball sort of where I started my career, but when I went to Malaysia.
00:08:59.370 --> 00:09:12.870	Carmen Bott: They said, okay, you're going to be working with the combative sports. Okay, fantastic. What does that entail, they said, Well, that would be you know judo boxing karate Taekwondo wrestling.
00:09:14.250 --> 00:09:32.130	Carmen Bott: And we want you to start with wrestling. I said, Okay, all right. Um, I guess I'll go to practice. So I went to practice and the practice was run by a coach from Iran and a coach from Mongolia. That's folks zero really much zero English. And they looked at me.
00:09:34.410 --> 00:09:45.510	Carmen Bott: And beyond me wondering if the real strength and conditioning professionals willing to walk into the room and I kind of smiled and waved
00:09:46.110 --> 00:09:56.550	Carmen Bott: Sat down there were flies are buzzing everywhere is really hot in the room is very humid and I remember having a notepad, a pen and a stopwatch.
00:09:57.000 --> 00:10:02.940	Carmen Bott: And I literally did my own analysis of the sport that entire week. I went to every single practice.
00:10:03.540 --> 00:10:08.490	Carmen Bott: And then on top of that, I go to the library and I took out every book on wrestling and I read them all.
00:10:08.880 --> 00:10:16.200	Carmen Bott: I learned the rules. I learned the positions and some of the technical things that I didn't know anything about because I wasn't my sport.
00:10:17.160 --> 00:10:25.290	Carmen Bott: And studied and then what happened was the athletes sort of coming into the weight room where I was sort of stations to be working
00:10:26.190 --> 00:10:37.260	Carmen Bott: And I started with just sort of jumping in on their workouts and just training with them. And at the time I was young and really fit in quite strong. So I think these guys were sort of surprised.
00:10:37.800 --> 00:10:46.260	Carmen Bott: That this on blue, a five foot five powerhouse could keep up. So I did that for about three weeks. I didn't say a word.
00:10:46.770 --> 00:10:58.260	Carmen Bott: I just was polite to the coaching staff. I tried to get to know the athletes, a little bit and I need to sort of foster that relationship over time and then by the time I left the institute
00:10:58.980 --> 00:11:10.230	Carmen Bott: I did train other teams and other athletes, but that one really stuck out because you know I was training both coaches, the athletes. So the wrestlers the coaching staff, plus the coaches wives.
00:11:11.250 --> 00:11:12.390	Carmen Bott: By the time I went back to
00:11:12.390 --> 00:11:20.310	Carmen Bott: Canada, you know, and so that was some that kind of was an interesting pivotal moment for me and then I came back to Canada, and I
00:11:21.330 --> 00:11:29.400	Carmen Bott: I was working with basketball players and ice hockey players and at the time I had a boss here that really had a lot of faith in me and he let me train alone Pro's
00:11:29.790 --> 00:11:38.850	Carmen Bott: pro hockey players. So I worked with them at a young age. And then I decided to go back to school and do a masters and so my master's was more in
00:11:39.270 --> 00:11:46.410	Carmen Bott: Sports Medicine and I knew I needed to be a little bit more strategic with who I take myself with
00:11:47.130 --> 00:11:55.020	Carmen Bott: You know, in terms of potential opportunities after graduate school, whether it was teaching or coaching at a really high level so
00:11:55.320 --> 00:12:03.900	Carmen Bott: The gentleman who I ended up working under was our Chief Medical Officer for for Olympic sport with Canadian Olympic sport. His name is Dr. JACK Taunton
00:12:04.440 --> 00:12:13.200	Carmen Bott: And so I did a study with with jack and he was sort of networked in with Nike down in Beaverton, Oregon, and they sponsored all my research.
00:12:13.980 --> 00:12:31.050	Carmen Bott: And I did a study on basketball performance at the time. Yeah. And then I graduated and I applied for a teaching position at the university while I was still in grad school, I remember them telling me know if you you have to pass your thesis, because we've already hired you to teach
00:12:31.830 --> 00:12:36.450	Carmen Bott: Like, oh my God, and it seemed like this is the theme here, right. It was kind of
00:12:37.050 --> 00:12:46.980	Carmen Bott: You know, I was always just flying by the seat of my pants and just barely ahead, you know, even when I got to Malaysia. I brought on my textbooks with me and I read them on the plane.
00:12:47.460 --> 00:12:55.440	Carmen Bott: Because I thought I need to study, you need to learn more, need to be sharper and I've kind of always had that attitude and then fast forward to now.
00:12:57.120 --> 00:13:06.690	Carmen Bott: I'm now 23 years experience in the field as a physical performance coach have trained all kinds of different athletes, not just wrestlers, not just basketball players.
00:13:07.050 --> 00:13:15.210	Carmen Bott: And I have embarked on another journey. And that's mental performance. So I went back to school last year to
00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:21.900	Carmen Bott: Finish some graduate work to become what they call a mental performance consultant. So it's not
00:13:22.740 --> 00:13:32.640	Carmen Bott: Like a clinical counselor, I wouldn't be working with anyone with anything clinical right but it would be yeah with athletes, you know, to help them.
00:13:33.180 --> 00:13:43.380	Carmen Bott: Navigate the mental side of their performance. So I've really enjoyed that journey and I'm at the point now where I'm doing practical hours with real humans.
00:13:43.920 --> 00:13:55.890	Carmen Bott: And I have a great supervisor that's helping me along the way. And what a fantastic way to become a professional in an area to be supervised I wish more professions were directly supervised
00:13:56.310 --> 00:14:06.330	Carmen Bott: These. I do think that it definitely lends itself to a more professional product in the end. So that's kind of where I'm at now.
00:14:07.440 --> 00:14:14.850	Graham Dobbin: I'm we've got a minute or so. Just before we go for a break. Just before that you tell us that you you've worked with different sports. What's your favorite
00:14:15.930 --> 00:14:18.690	Carmen Bott: Oh, I don't, I don't really have a favorite isn't that
00:14:19.080 --> 00:14:28.740	Carmen Bott: I mean, I have the ones I played. I was a team sport athlete. So I tend to probably get it more, you know, when the dynamics of teams for
00:14:29.070 --> 00:14:35.820	Carmen Bott: But I have a huge appreciation. Honestly, I guess, a secret Graham before the break is I love to watch breakdancing
00:14:36.840 --> 00:14:49.020	Carmen Bott: I think break down and saying is, like, the coolest sport ever and then surfing would be like number two. And I've never worked at those athletes. Because to me, they move their movement is just, it's beautiful.
00:14:50.310 --> 00:14:54.840	Graham Dobbin: We'll let will explore that a little bit more. After the break, and also
00:14:56.400 --> 00:15:04.650	Graham Dobbin: I do want to jump back on on you. You said that you kind of philosophy and skeptical main sets and curiosity. So we really want to dig in and now there's a lot
00:15:05.040 --> 00:15:09.870	Graham Dobbin: A lot that's been mentioned, they're just the first 10 minutes or so. So we've got we've got a lot to talk about.
00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:20.580	Graham Dobbin: And you're listening to the main behind leadership with me. Graham Dobbin we're live on talk radio dot NYC. And we're speaking with Carmen, but we'll be right back after these messages.
00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:51.090	Graham Dobbin: Is Thursday night. It's New York City and it's the mind behind literature, we're speaking with Carmen bots coming, you said just before we went to break that the kind of sports that you admire break dancing and what was the other one.
00:17:53.340 --> 00:17:54.210	Carmen Bott: Hot Dog Eating
00:17:54.600 --> 00:17:55.620	Graham Dobbin: Hot Dog Eating well
00:17:58.230 --> 00:17:59.160	Carmen Bott: Surfing you know
00:17:59.220 --> 00:17:59.790	Graham Dobbin: We take the
00:17:59.820 --> 00:18:00.330	Carmen Bott: Ways.
00:18:00.360 --> 00:18:02.100	Carmen Bott: We all do can tell. Hot Dog Eating
00:18:03.270 --> 00:18:04.020	Carmen Bott: Yeah, I'm
00:18:04.290 --> 00:18:16.170	Graham Dobbin: Kind of practicing. I'm one of the things you mentioned was about you enjoy team sports and you enjoy, but you've also got a coach wrestlers and
00:18:17.010 --> 00:18:25.350	Graham Dobbin: I was myself with with with professional boxers in the UK and just watching what some of these people put themselves through
00:18:26.010 --> 00:18:31.440	Graham Dobbin: On the road without even anybody you know necessarily coaching them when the training with physical training.
00:18:32.280 --> 00:18:38.250	Graham Dobbin: I watched him walk in earnings barely able to stand and then going back the next day and doing exactly the same.
00:18:38.970 --> 00:18:57.930	Graham Dobbin: Um, I always wondered about the mindset of somebody that can do that and handy get someone to just keep on pushing past what or any I'm going to call us normal people with terminal. So right, that's enough for today. I just take that extra step an extra step. How do you do it.
00:18:58.860 --> 00:19:08.850	Carmen Bott: I think it really is on them. It's something called intrinsic motivation. Right. They typically when you look at the characteristics of top performers
00:19:09.600 --> 00:19:20.580	Carmen Bott: The research will suggest that majority are intrinsically motivated. Meaning that they're not waiting for a pat on the back. They are disciplined by nature, and they also
00:19:21.390 --> 00:19:32.700	Carmen Bott: Truly have a love of the game. It might be a bit of a love hate every once in a while, but they do enjoy a lot of the aspects of the sport and training and preparing for this sport.
00:19:33.120 --> 00:19:51.480	Carmen Bott: And finding that love I think is really important in maintaining those levels of motivation. So even the training should be for the most part, enjoyable. But there are going to be times where it is suffering as well. And I think that it takes a special person to want to endure that
00:19:51.900 --> 00:19:55.080	Graham Dobbin: I'm not sure what to look to enjoyable anybody I saw doing
00:19:56.700 --> 00:19:58.590	Carmen Bott: Maybe they're just putting on an app.
00:19:59.910 --> 00:20:00.570	Carmen Bott: I don't know.
00:20:00.900 --> 00:20:16.710	Graham Dobbin: More difficult I think I'm till we you mentioned Malaysia and did I hear you're right when you said that you you kind of did that without being able to speak the language they couldn't speak the language. So how do you cope someone when you can't tell them what to do.
00:20:18.390 --> 00:20:31.950	Carmen Bott: charades. You know, it really boils down to that tell show do kind of approach in coaching teaching and you sort of leave out the towel. It's more of a, you know,
00:20:32.340 --> 00:20:42.120	Carmen Bott: This is what I want you to do by demonstrating it and I think this is where good coaches can gain credibility if they can demonstrate something well
00:20:42.720 --> 00:20:51.990	Carmen Bott: The athlete usually will sort of appreciate that and it's often you know when athletes have communicated with me, why they work with me.
00:20:52.560 --> 00:21:07.590	Carmen Bott: A lot of times it is because of my ability to not just explain a drill or an exercise, but to show them you know how to do it. Maybe not with the same amount of load, you know, I'm not going to throw up 300 pounds like an offensive lineman might, but
00:21:08.610 --> 00:21:23.130	Carmen Bott: To be able to do that is helpful because they tend to athletes tend to learn quite well. That way they they're very good at observing and then just doing it, that's not as common in the general population when it comes to coaching and training.
00:21:24.240 --> 00:21:24.720	Graham Dobbin: Um,
00:21:25.890 --> 00:21:36.540	Graham Dobbin: What did it tell you, I suppose, the natural question for me. Here's what did it tell you about yourself that you could land up in a different country. I do see quite a young age.
00:21:37.980 --> 00:21:45.600	Graham Dobbin: Sport that you really didn't understand and coach people who are going on to the 2000 Sydney Olympics. I mean, this was serious stuff.
00:21:45.810 --> 00:21:46.230	Yeah.
00:21:47.310 --> 00:21:48.990	Graham Dobbin: Tell me about you being able to do that.
00:21:49.950 --> 00:21:53.250	Carmen Bott: I think that at a young age. There was a part of me.
00:21:54.720 --> 00:22:09.810	Carmen Bott: That was it has always been brave and I'm still brave to this day and and I define bravery is is being afraid, but doing it anyways. And I have a young son. So that's kind of the simple definition of it.
00:22:10.410 --> 00:22:27.630	Carmen Bott: And I think it's okay for people to be fearful and to worry about failure, but it's maybe not okay to not try it and Michael Jordan saying miss you know 100% of the shots you don't take and I also knew going there that I would have some support. I didn't know who they were.
00:22:28.710 --> 00:22:43.260	Carmen Bott: But I knew that the people I would be going to work with would support me and they did. And I'm still very good friends with although they live in different areas of the world good friends with a lot of the people I worked with over there. One of them has developed
00:22:44.610 --> 00:22:52.740	Carmen Bott: A suit for sprinters to train in and technology also works with Formula One race car drivers on the other side of the world. And I have another nother
00:22:53.010 --> 00:23:00.990	Carmen Bott: Friend that I work with his who's gone on to do a masters in clinical psychology. So now really high achieving people I was surrounded
00:23:01.680 --> 00:23:12.660	Carmen Bott: You know by and that was helpful because I didn't feel alone while I was there and I felt like I could explore and then there's a piece around, you know, really my upbringing, my mom.
00:23:13.500 --> 00:23:17.460	Carmen Bott: Always she used to tell me stories of how she used to lie on her resume.
00:23:17.760 --> 00:23:28.440	Carmen Bott: All the time. Oh yeah, I've done that before. And then she's like, because I can figure it out. And that's actually the epitome of a growth mindset someone with a growth mindset really truly believes they can learn
00:23:29.430 --> 00:23:33.960	Carmen Bott: It's not that they're arrogant and they think they're good, they believe they can learn
00:23:34.740 --> 00:23:35.940	Graham Dobbin: To find the way to do I think
00:23:38.190 --> 00:23:43.680	Graham Dobbin: Cool. And I'm going to paraphrase it but something like if you get an opportunity say yes and then work out how to do it.
00:23:44.220 --> 00:23:58.170	Carmen Bott: I've always had that attitude and I don't see it as often. Now with this younger generation and I'm trying my best as a mentor for younger students to to tell you know to encourage them to just go for it.
00:23:58.890 --> 00:24:05.100	Graham Dobbin: So since we have the kind of the skeptical mindset and approach of curiosity comes in then.
00:24:05.790 --> 00:24:18.270	Carmen Bott: Well, curiosity, for sure. That was something that was all. I always had as a young person as a child teenager, you know, sometimes it got me in trouble, to be perfectly honest, a lot of trouble.
00:24:19.440 --> 00:24:23.910	Carmen Bott: Got me fired, you know, because I'm like, I'm just gonna try this and go off the path right
00:24:23.970 --> 00:24:28.710	Graham Dobbin: I mean, you can't say got you into lots of trouble, without giving us some examples you just
00:24:29.250 --> 00:24:32.220	Carmen Bott: Just, you know, like, let's see what it would be like if I
00:24:33.300 --> 00:24:39.840	Carmen Bott: climbed through the roof of a bus. Well, it was moving and served on the top of it and then fell off the bat kind of curiosity.
00:24:40.590 --> 00:24:40.920	Right.
00:24:42.270 --> 00:24:43.410	Graham Dobbin: The things that you would do.
00:24:43.860 --> 00:24:48.900	Carmen Bott: on a Tuesday. Yeah, I don't, I'm not sharing with your readership. What I would do on a Wednesday, but um
00:24:49.500 --> 00:24:54.060	Carmen Bott: Yeah, and then the skepticism piece came later that came when I became an academic
00:24:54.600 --> 00:25:07.140	Carmen Bott: And my mentors and academia are really skeptical people I'm Co authoring a textbook right now with the gentleman who taught me my very first Kinesiology course remember the jogging for credits course that I
00:25:07.140 --> 00:25:08.070	Carmen Bott: Talked about
00:25:08.610 --> 00:25:13.800	Carmen Bott: I'm actually writing a book with the professor that I took that course from I
00:25:14.100 --> 00:25:15.630	Graham Dobbin: Hope to you.
00:25:15.960 --> 00:25:26.040	Carmen Bott: Know how does that feel amazing. I'm so honored. I just, I can't believe it to be honest, it's really, it's really cool because I i mean
00:25:26.520 --> 00:25:42.960	Carmen Bott: I don't know if you really remembered me as a student. It's not like I really stood out there was also 120 students. I think in the class at the time. But yeah, so I become more skeptical as I've gotten older, and I i definitely probably
00:25:44.700 --> 00:25:56.520	Carmen Bott: Have a better bullshit filter, you know, as I've gotten older, you know, the more information you gather and the more you know about what is effective and what is just hogwash or bro science, the more it becomes clear.
00:25:56.940 --> 00:26:09.000	Carmen Bott: And then you're also comfortable saying, I don't know. I don't know. There's not enough evidence to send me either direction that's, you know, but thing. I don't do is make things out for me claims that can't back
00:26:10.680 --> 00:26:22.650	Graham Dobbin: Um, so I'm thinking about, again, I think about your students, how do you get them getting that mindset that you've had that you, my guess is most of your athletes do
00:26:23.250 --> 00:26:30.570	Graham Dobbin: People who you're coaching have got that they're pushing themselves with spoken about the boxers. How do you get that to to students.
00:26:31.770 --> 00:26:35.790	Carmen Bott: So the curiosity piece or more of a growth mindset.
00:26:35.940 --> 00:26:37.350	Graham Dobbin: Yes, exactly. Yes.
00:26:37.530 --> 00:26:38.490	Carmen Bott: Yes, yes.
00:26:38.760 --> 00:26:47.460	Carmen Bott: Yeah, yeah, I think, you know, one thing I do with university students. I know what drives them nuts is the last me a question and I'll counter with the question and
00:26:48.180 --> 00:26:55.830	Carmen Bott: You know what they'll say, Well, what do you think about putting this test before this test and of testing battery. And what do you think
00:26:57.240 --> 00:27:03.510	Carmen Bott: And, you know, that is, is a way for them to be put in the hot seat and have an opportunity to be wrong.
00:27:04.020 --> 00:27:15.420	Carmen Bott: Have an aha moment. And I think at first it's really unnerving for them and they're used to maybe the teacher, giving them the answer, but I very rarely, if ever,
00:27:16.350 --> 00:27:31.830	Carmen Bott: Give the answer, even if I'm giving feedback on an exam is to see a question that was answered in correctly. I might not give the answer away. Still, I might say, you know, hey, have you considered thinking about the question this way and going in this direction.
00:27:33.420 --> 00:27:44.640	Carmen Bott: And some kids like it because it's challenging and others find it really uncomfortable and extremely annoying and it depends on what they're used to it.
00:27:46.080 --> 00:27:50.400	Graham Dobbin: It's interesting because when most people ask us a question, they've got an opinion about already.
00:27:51.090 --> 00:27:53.100	Graham Dobbin: And it almost looking for some kind of confirmation
00:27:53.130 --> 00:27:54.270	Carmen Bott: Confirmation bias.
00:27:54.270 --> 00:28:03.090	Graham Dobbin: Yeah, or or the looking for something else without having to open themselves and you know leadership programs is
00:28:04.110 --> 00:28:17.910	Graham Dobbin: Kind of one of the bus things at the moment about failing quickly, you know, fail, fail quickly protect yourself do it safely bit do it quickly. And in other words, we need to try things to absolutely destroy them.
00:28:18.300 --> 00:28:24.660	Carmen Bott: Yeah, and I, you know, where does the acronym for fail right first attempt in learning
00:28:25.980 --> 00:28:41.880	Carmen Bott: It. So, you know, and I tell them I tell the students that I said, look, you know, this can't be a place where you're afraid to fail, but I usually don't phrase it that way rather than saying don't and can't hits. This is a place where you can feel free to ask any question.
00:28:42.870 --> 00:28:45.510	Graham Dobbin: I know asked you a question. Street back if you yeah
00:28:45.570 --> 00:28:46.740	Carmen Bott: And usually, all
00:28:46.800 --> 00:28:55.350	Carmen Bott: I'll just leave you. I'll lead you. But I'm not going to serve you, because it's not servicing them in the long run. Right.
00:28:55.830 --> 00:29:00.930	Graham Dobbin: Absolutely yeah I'm after the break. But I do want to talk to you about your tagline.
00:29:01.770 --> 00:29:02.070	Carmen Bott: Okay.
00:29:02.700 --> 00:29:09.270	Graham Dobbin: Which were which we will reveal after the break, and really kind of tying this into what happens with
00:29:09.960 --> 00:29:17.220	Graham Dobbin: Us mere mortals us non high performers. But how, what can we take from the Canada lessons that you've learned
00:29:17.640 --> 00:29:30.930	Graham Dobbin: And also that you're passing on to your students and really you're listening to the mind behind our leadership with me. Graham dog and we're speaking with common bought live on talk radio dot NYC. We'll be right back after these messages.
00:31:58.740 --> 00:32:09.810	Graham Dobbin: Welcome back, we're speaking with common bought here on the mind behind leadership so common, this three hours of your tagline relentless resilience in real
00:32:11.100 --> 00:32:13.590	Graham Dobbin: Why is that your tagline. And how do you coach for it.
00:32:15.600 --> 00:32:19.590	Carmen Bott: That's my tagline because they can all be demonstrated
00:32:21.060 --> 00:32:33.810	Carmen Bott: So there you know each each word. So let me. We'll start with real is it's about bringing your true, authentic self. Every day, so not pretending that you're something you're not
00:32:35.010 --> 00:32:46.410	Carmen Bott: If you're the kind of person, yesterday I uncovered with an athlete that that this athlete. She just can't stand being rushed. I don't like to be rushed and I wrote it down.
00:32:47.250 --> 00:32:58.020	Carmen Bott: So from now on, you don't meet you really doesn't like to be rushed. So we're going to create an environment for her, for the most part, where she doesn't feel recipe. She's not going to perform her best if she's feeling right away.
00:32:59.760 --> 00:33:02.880	Graham Dobbin: What about the speaker till you make it. I hear that all the time.
00:33:03.120 --> 00:33:11.100	Carmen Bott: We could know if that's false confidence. No, I don't agree with it. So that was actually, I think one of your other questions.
00:33:11.670 --> 00:33:20.340	Carmen Bott: That you had sent me and we can get to that, if you want, where I sort of talked about the traits of yours and your confidence has to be true.
00:33:20.850 --> 00:33:30.480	Carmen Bott: And there's ways to sort of know whether it's whether it's not right because if you fake it till you make it. It's not really a true belief and it's not stable.
00:33:31.770 --> 00:33:41.250	Carmen Bott: And so if you are shaken up off your off your game. You know, usually doesn't withstand that storm, and that's where resilience comes in. And that's the other are
00:33:41.580 --> 00:33:48.870	Carmen Bott: And not every resilience, you need a couple things. That means that you have the ability to bounce back and you have the ability to adopt.
00:33:49.740 --> 00:34:13.560	Carmen Bott: And adapt positively and it's something that can be built with adversity and stresses. So by delivering training stresses to the athletes that I work with, they will build their Resiliency, you know, this whole pandemic has been a test of their resiliency would relent. Yeah, go ahead.
00:34:13.770 --> 00:34:19.290	Graham Dobbin: Just not sure when you say you mean by stresses just physical or psychological
00:34:19.800 --> 00:34:23.160	Carmen Bott: It could be either. It could be either. I mean, the body itself.
00:34:24.330 --> 00:34:28.590	Carmen Bott: Really will perceive a stress in one of two ways. Either a challenge or a threat.
00:34:29.910 --> 00:34:38.190	Carmen Bott: And usually when we perceive it as a threat and we go into a fight or flight type response and we end up in this heightened state of
00:34:38.820 --> 00:34:45.180	Carmen Bott: being stressed out, if you will, and people that are typically more resilient cope better they have adaptive coping strategies.
00:34:45.630 --> 00:35:08.280	Carmen Bott: That don't keep them in that high stress state for very long. And so there they tend to have more energy, they tend to be less worry full, they tend to have better restorative mechanisms or regeneration mechanisms. I think some people use relaxation which different that you know
00:35:10.530 --> 00:35:18.600	Carmen Bott: Yeah. And then the other, or is is the relentless was just just paddling, and one of my mantras is keep paddling
00:35:19.260 --> 00:35:30.090	Carmen Bott: Paddling and sometimes you're paddling, and you're going like two miles an hour, but you're still moving in the right direction, sometimes you're paddling, and you're moving like a lightning bolt exactly where you want to be.
00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:39.810	Carmen Bott: But the key is that we don't stop. We keep trying to move forward. We keep pushing forward towards the goal that we have, you know, in mind.
00:35:40.800 --> 00:35:54.930	Carmen Bott: So that's the, that's the relentless piece and then it's also there's a piece around, you know, people that are relentless I think also a really good at ignoring distractions and outside noise, whether it's credit critics criticism from others.
00:35:56.160 --> 00:36:09.180	Carmen Bott: You know, that sort of thing. They, they sort of shelf it and know how to know how to to classify it as it not being a big influence on who they are and what their mission is at that particular time.
00:36:10.650 --> 00:36:15.390	Graham Dobbin: I'm you've mentioned about working with individuals in team sports.
00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:16.200	Carmen Bott: So,
00:36:16.230 --> 00:36:21.570	Graham Dobbin: Is it a. Is it a difference. I'm sure there is a difference. What's the difference, I suppose, is the question on
00:36:22.050 --> 00:36:29.550	Graham Dobbin: I'm training for that relentlessness that resilience and keeping it real. When you've got maybe a team with
00:36:30.150 --> 00:36:42.690	Graham Dobbin: Obviously a whole lot of individuals with different approaches, potentially, but the same goal and an individual who's got one thing in mind that may be a medal, that may be a competition. It might be whatever it is may just be the next fight.
00:36:43.620 --> 00:36:44.730	Carmen Bott: how great the
00:36:45.210 --> 00:36:47.400	Graham Dobbin: Difference there and your approach with them.
00:36:47.880 --> 00:37:05.430	Carmen Bott: Well, I mean, because I do a lot of small group or private training. I'm not dealing with group dynamics. But that's, I think what you're talking about. And I certainly encounter group dynamics in other arenas of my professional life just not with the clients IC
00:37:06.660 --> 00:37:16.770	Carmen Bott: Where you were, as you say, we may have different roles different responsibilities different skill sets or domain knowledge we might have different values.
00:37:18.120 --> 00:37:30.540	Carmen Bott: And as soon as we have different values, different goals we have usually have some problems, right, because we're now, you know, pulling the ship in many different directions.
00:37:30.930 --> 00:37:41.610	Carmen Bott: We're not collectively heading to the same space in my world. I don't I lucky. I don't really deal with that when I'm working with clients.
00:37:42.840 --> 00:37:54.510	Carmen Bott: I'm almost treating them all as individuals. And in fact, in both mental performance and physical training. We have a principle. And that's the principle of individualization
00:37:55.590 --> 00:38:07.050	Carmen Bott: So I do individualized my clients mental plans, their homework and their physical plans completely based on their metrics their testing results their interviews.
00:38:08.190 --> 00:38:16.350	Carmen Bott: Their constitution their goals and their aptitudes so it's some. Yeah, a little bit of a different beast, and I'm a bit spoiled.
00:38:17.400 --> 00:38:22.560	Carmen Bott: To not have to worry about, like, you know, little Timmy that's being disruptive in the rest of the group.
00:38:24.390 --> 00:38:24.870	Carmen Bott: Mm hmm.
00:38:24.900 --> 00:38:28.020	Graham Dobbin: Coleman, who was disruptive as a child because of the curiosity.
00:38:28.230 --> 00:38:29.490	Carmen Bott: Yes, a little bit still
00:38:31.050 --> 00:38:45.510	Graham Dobbin: It's, it's fairly straightforward to measure physical performance, isn't it, it's either the time or a weight or or being able to win something or body fat or. So we've got that right down to it, there's lots of different ways we can do, how do we measure
00:38:46.380 --> 00:38:53.100	Graham Dobbin: Resilience hate to be measured that relentlessness how to be, how could we measure that kind of that that that psychological side.
00:38:54.450 --> 00:38:58.560	Carmen Bott: I mean, there are inventories. You can use
00:39:00.210 --> 00:39:06.330	Carmen Bott: Where we can you know profile people. And it's funny, I was talking to my supervisor about that.
00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:21.540	Carmen Bott: And, you know, she said, and I said I financial performance quite different, because in the on a physical, we will run a testing boundary on the mental what we're typically taught is to sit down and talk to our clients and to build a relationship.
00:39:22.560 --> 00:39:31.980	Carmen Bott: And through that relationship and the trust that is built will come more openness and willingness to talk about things like fear or
00:39:33.000 --> 00:39:47.610	Carmen Bott: You know, our skeletons in our closet or our deepest secrets that sort of thing. So, or things that might get in our own way. So it's some with the mental side. I think it's not as cut and dry. It's not as clear. We can't measure
00:39:48.210 --> 00:39:57.270	Carmen Bott: Resiliency but we can demonstrate it. And that's what I mean when I say those are demonstrable, if you will. Those three words that I use.
00:39:57.780 --> 00:40:17.370	Carmen Bott: We can't measure it, but we can demonstrate it. And then we can validate it. So if I have a client that shows me that they were being resilient. I will acknowledge that and educate them on what they just did that was resilient and then invalidated and encourage it to happen again. Yeah.
00:40:17.820 --> 00:40:22.950	Graham Dobbin: So this is all building on previous experience the previous experience that they create
00:40:23.220 --> 00:40:28.770	Carmen Bott: Absolutely or whatever they they've encountered. You know that's been, you know, really stressful like
00:40:29.430 --> 00:40:37.170	Carmen Bott: You know, they can travel and compete because of because of a pandemic. So, you know, what can we do about that, you know, how can we be
00:40:37.740 --> 00:40:46.530	Carmen Bott: Correct. You know, crafty and resilient with the with the stress that's been placed in front of us. What are our solutions. What can we control what can we control.
00:40:47.580 --> 00:40:59.400	Graham Dobbin: Is as I mentioned that I'd watch with some professional boxers back in the UK. And there was one in particular that I remember. Everybody was focused it broken his hand, which is kind of a big thing for a professional boxer
00:41:00.210 --> 00:41:13.830	Graham Dobbin: And previously you'd actually blocking it twice in the previous 18 months and the focus was on him sparing us do phenomenally well he's going in for a big tournament phenomenally well and everybody thought he was great.
00:41:14.910 --> 00:41:24.600	Graham Dobbin: At the psychological part was he kept on running the walk to the ring, when he was in the ring. He was good, but he was in performing. But even when you were going into chain. It was that
00:41:25.020 --> 00:41:34.350	Graham Dobbin: It was actually just getting into the ring. There was almost a fear of what what happened with the hand when you go in there, you know, everything just clicked into place and he performed
00:41:35.040 --> 00:41:35.880	Carmen Bott: And we did. Okay.
00:41:36.330 --> 00:41:40.860	Graham Dobbin: He did he perform really well, but getting that getting to that point was actually the struggle for him.
00:41:41.310 --> 00:41:41.610	Carmen Bott: Right. He
00:41:41.640 --> 00:41:42.360	Carmen Bott: Wasn't he wasn't
00:41:42.660 --> 00:41:44.250	Carmen Bott: Worries itself. It was getting
00:41:46.020 --> 00:41:53.340	Carmen Bott: Well, that's an interesting point because sometimes what you're saying is that people can worry a lot and still perform well which is true.
00:41:53.940 --> 00:42:09.540	Carmen Bott: But my question is, wow. Was it really worth it going through that, you know, is there something we could have done to intervene with the worrying right the anxiety and the opposite of anxiety. If we place it on a continuum is confidence so his
00:42:09.570 --> 00:42:23.520	Graham Dobbin: His, His physical coaches were focusing on on on his performance in the ring, which was great, but we have to kind of dampen down everything all that worry that was going on. I say talk when you got to that and he was a much better place.
00:42:26.130 --> 00:42:34.950	Graham Dobbin: I suppose I've just come on we're talking about winning and we talked about success. Is it a difference between those in your point of view your opinion.
00:42:35.790 --> 00:42:46.590	Carmen Bott: Yeah, absolutely. So you can. One thing that we do do with kids as we do, you know, some questions around talking about your best performance.
00:42:47.160 --> 00:43:00.180	Carmen Bott: Kind of write a little story a narrative about your best performance and then how you felt emotionally if you can remember. Sometimes it's hard, you know, for athletes and conjure that up but
00:43:01.290 --> 00:43:11.850	Carmen Bott: You know, it's better if it's a little bit more recent and then worst performance ever. Okay, in their opinion worst performance ever and how they how they really felt about it.
00:43:12.450 --> 00:43:22.080	Carmen Bott: And it's funny because want me. And one of my athletes just recently we did this exercise, and she went through her best performance and she didn't win.
00:43:24.060 --> 00:43:38.160	Carmen Bott: Well, didn't win the match, but she did a whole bunch of things right. She executed a move that her coach and her had been working on and practice that she was hesitant to try in
00:43:38.880 --> 00:43:51.390	Carmen Bott: The past. So for her, you know, it was a match where she was in a position to try things. It wasn't a meaningful match. It wasn't a ranking tournament or anything like that. So,
00:43:51.780 --> 00:44:02.010	Carmen Bott: You know, I think definitely we can have really good personal best performances and not necessarily win and winning. You know, sometimes it's
00:44:02.640 --> 00:44:14.640	Carmen Bott: It's luck. You know, it can go. You have the two best in the world can going head to head, any, any gold medal match of the Olympics. It could go either way. You know, for a variety of reasons. So this idea of predicting performance is
00:44:15.840 --> 00:44:17.010	Carmen Bott: Not really possible
00:44:17.580 --> 00:44:24.330	Graham Dobbin: It's interesting, just thinking about, you know, past performances. When would be our peak. We kind of repeat those things. And some people see
00:44:24.960 --> 00:44:31.860	Graham Dobbin: I see footballers all the time being saved. This is superstition, or something like that. It's just, it's just getting us right into the right frame of mind.
00:44:31.980 --> 00:44:33.330	Carmen Bott: Yeah, absolutely.
00:44:33.360 --> 00:44:36.270	Carmen Bott: It's a performance plan. That's what we call it. What's your
00:44:36.270 --> 00:44:45.450	Carmen Bott: Performance Plan. And again, it goes back to controlling what you can control like if you're going to go into a really important business meeting. What's your plan for that.
00:44:46.020 --> 00:44:53.430	Carmen Bott: How do you send to yourself. How do you calm yourself. What do you say to yourself, how do you prepare for that. What a wonderful segue.
00:44:53.430 --> 00:45:01.230	Graham Dobbin: Because after the break we're going to talk about how does this affect us in business or other parts of our life, not just in sports performance, you know,
00:45:02.310 --> 00:45:09.540	Graham Dobbin: What's the qualities of a coach and also just what can professional maybe business leaders, learn from what you do. So we'll explore that.
00:45:09.870 --> 00:45:18.540	Graham Dobbin: After the break, you're listening to the mind behind leadership here live on talk radio dot NYC. We are speaking with Carmen bots and we'll be back right after this.
00:47:41.790 --> 00:47:51.240	Graham Dobbin: Welcome back, we're speaking with common bought and we are talking about sports performance. But how does that impact the business. So thank you for the segway car before the break.
00:47:52.800 --> 00:47:57.450	Carmen Bott: What qualities do you see a need for a coach to be successful.
00:47:59.640 --> 00:48:09.960	Carmen Bott: I think of, you know, qualities around relating to people and communication is sort of the the top two in terms of with coaching.
00:48:11.370 --> 00:48:19.620	Carmen Bott: I really, you know, you know, I asked for a lot of feedback from my athletes. And usually what they tell me is. Nobody ever asks us for feedback.
00:48:20.280 --> 00:48:34.020	Carmen Bott: Are you asking me for feedback. What should I say, but I think that that's a, that's a really collaborative approach right and if you can, if you can institute a collaborative approach, even with kids like I coach.
00:48:34.440 --> 00:48:45.690	Carmen Bott: Little kids to and because my son's in the fifth grade, and you know, even with diamonds. Like, do you guys want to do X, or do you want to do, why these are choices right and it's empowering.
00:48:46.350 --> 00:48:59.430	Carmen Bott: You're empowering the younger generations by, you know, giving, giving them some some choice in their destiny and asking for their feedback. Really, I look at myself as just a conduit.
00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:07.800	Carmen Bott: You know I'm there to impart some of the, the teachings that have been taught to me. I stood on the shoulders of some huge giants in my field.
00:49:08.760 --> 00:49:19.020	Carmen Bott: I'm a completely when it comes to information people know that about me if i think you know lots about an area I will tag along and pick, pick away at your brain and until I feel
00:49:19.590 --> 00:49:27.300	Carmen Bott: You know, confident on that but you know that's that's what I do. I mean, that's my job is to make sure that I'm you know well versed on the on the
00:49:27.690 --> 00:49:39.120	Carmen Bott: domain knowledge, but really it's about the relationship with the kids and making sure that they feel taken care of and they feel like a human, not like a chess pawn so
00:49:40.470 --> 00:49:49.950	Graham Dobbin: I'm just, this is again your opinion, what lessons do you think that you know can business leaders professional leaders can take from that.
00:49:51.750 --> 00:49:57.450	Carmen Bott: Now, I think, you know, one thing we talked about a lot in mental performance is the foundation of
00:49:58.530 --> 00:50:05.820	Carmen Bott: skill acquisition. So like mental people that are mentally agile and mentally resilient are highly self aware
00:50:07.410 --> 00:50:25.230	Carmen Bott: And that's where it needs to start if an individual is lack self awareness. It isn't willing to work on themselves and to take criticism, maybe from others, or, you know, change oriented feedback that that's always going to be their stumbling block or their Achilles heel.
00:50:27.060 --> 00:50:32.820	Carmen Bott: That you know if you want to change and you want to make progress on your game as a leader.
00:50:33.420 --> 00:50:44.100	Carmen Bott: You need to be aware of what it is you need to work on. And then the other piece around that is being fluid and agile. I don't think the way that I lead and communicate with my academic
00:50:44.670 --> 00:50:54.270	Carmen Bott: Side of my life is the same as a coach, when I'm a coach. I have a baseball hat on and I play some Tupac and I'm a little cooler and
00:50:55.110 --> 00:51:05.220	Carmen Bott: You know, a little more casual I crack jokes I try to make everybody feel really comfortable in an academic setting. I'm probably a bit more formal
00:51:05.550 --> 00:51:14.910	Carmen Bott: Because the setting is more formal and I'm sort of trying to match my audience, but I learned something so valuable years ago. And that was just to meet people where they are.
00:51:16.230 --> 00:51:21.930	Graham Dobbin: So like we actually this discussion. I've had this discussion twice in the last couple of weeks on the
00:51:21.930 --> 00:51:22.380	Carmen Bott: Show.
00:51:22.650 --> 00:51:37.740	Graham Dobbin: About being authentic right. We've got to turn up in different ways. Sometimes, and it was something you mentioned David was kind of bringing that confidence being ourselves not faking it till we make it. Is there any point that you think this isn't really me
00:51:38.640 --> 00:51:40.020	Carmen Bott: No, not anymore.
00:51:41.340 --> 00:51:52.140	Carmen Bott: When I was younger I had a lot of fears around, not knowing enough not also motivated me like crazy to read and study and
00:51:53.730 --> 00:52:08.940	Carmen Bott: You know, get as good at that side of the game as possible, but I've learned that if I don't know something right off the bat, I can look it up. I can ask someone else that knows more in that area than me. I have a great network. Yeah, but
00:52:10.860 --> 00:52:12.840	Carmen Bott: I've just blanked on your question, though.
00:52:13.020 --> 00:52:16.110	Graham Dobbin: There is about. Do you ever feel that you're not really you
00:52:16.200 --> 00:52:27.270	Carmen Bott: Yeah, but now. No, I now I have me and I, and I've gotten used to who me is, but that's that self awareness. That's the deep work that we all need to do that's reflection.
00:52:27.720 --> 00:52:32.610	Carmen Bott: Right so finishing. Let's see, it is that you're in a business setting and you have a meeting.
00:52:33.150 --> 00:52:41.250	Carmen Bott: And one of my job's is sometimes I've that I've to evaluate new faculty and that's not fun. Okay, I sit in a classroom and I have to critique them and I can meet with them.
00:52:41.700 --> 00:52:55.440	Carmen Bott: Right and talk about, you know, it's like a performance review and I you know I really have to go through a process in order to be, you know, kind of without but at the end of the day, I bring humor and I'm see and
00:52:56.520 --> 00:53:07.320	Carmen Bott: You know myself and and the fact that I have a coffin of the fact that I have many years of experience as well. Right. So if I have a hot shot, new, new young person but
00:53:07.620 --> 00:53:19.710	Carmen Bott: Does it maybe you want to listen. It's like, well, you know, I appreciate where you're coming from. But you know it. I'm also coming from this angle of having, you know, 1314 years of experience and this is what I found.
00:53:21.540 --> 00:53:29.400	Graham Dobbin: Colleges. I think it's a big moment for me as well, was one of the challenges was always wanting more information. And so I knew everything.
00:53:29.970 --> 00:53:30.300	Carmen Bott: And it was
00:53:30.600 --> 00:53:31.980	Graham Dobbin: Like bringing you enough
00:53:33.000 --> 00:53:46.710	Graham Dobbin: It was actually really difficult to know when. When is enough enough. And when you change that and realize I can go and get the information when I need it. I might this place. I'm agile so agility is actually probably the biggest buzzwords in business at the moment.
00:53:47.070 --> 00:53:47.760	Carmen Bott: I went away.
00:53:49.050 --> 00:53:51.990	Carmen Bott: means changing directions in sport performance. So
00:53:53.550 --> 00:54:00.960	Graham Dobbin: People talking about you know because of because of the current situation that we're here we've got going on with Corbett, obviously.
00:54:01.350 --> 00:54:03.420	Carmen Bott: I'm changing like
00:54:03.450 --> 00:54:13.950	Graham Dobbin: That forever. When we look at, you know, the top 50 fortune companies, probably about 30 to 40% and weren't an existence 20 years ago.
00:54:14.400 --> 00:54:23.490	Graham Dobbin: So, you know, there's always that involvement. Anyway, so we need to keep agile and kind of one of the last questions we got because we're running a timeless. It just seems to form by
00:54:23.850 --> 00:54:35.190	Graham Dobbin: Some of the sports that you get involved with and traditionally seen as female, so just, you know, just quickly how this I hear that there's never enough female leaders and business.
00:54:35.550 --> 00:54:37.200	Carmen Bott: And it's really difficult to break through.
00:54:37.680 --> 00:54:39.150	Graham Dobbin: Break into those sports.
00:54:40.560 --> 00:54:47.580	Carmen Bott: Honestly, I don't, I'm not in that camp, Graham. This is where I'm going to give you my opinion. Don't be a victim.
00:54:48.030 --> 00:54:57.210	Carmen Bott: Just go for it. Don't be a victim, don't, don't say there's not enough opportunities, create an opportunity. Be like stupid and naive like I was
00:54:57.870 --> 00:55:09.150	Carmen Bott: And just go for it. You know it and yeah I guess I don't traditionally coach female sports but I actually played flag football top tier for 10 years
00:55:09.600 --> 00:55:21.840	Carmen Bott: So I can catch a football, I can cut jump run do things that skill players need to be able to do so I do earn respect and not sense, but I am getting old and I can't do it the way I used to be able to do it. So after and respect other ways and
00:55:22.110 --> 00:55:33.240	Carmen Bott: And that comes from even just understanding a little bit more about the sport or the position, the player, you know, plays that I work with, but you're right in that they're not typical.
00:55:34.560 --> 00:55:44.700	Carmen Bott: You know, female sports but I love pressure and like, if you think about professional football. It's a high pressure environment combat high pressure environment.
00:55:45.030 --> 00:55:55.980	Carmen Bott: Bring it on. Like I thrive there. That's a, you know, even though there's times when it's terrifying. Don't get me wrong i'm not just sitting there like it's a cakewalk. It's like a total thrill for me.
00:55:56.970 --> 00:55:57.390	So I'm just
00:55:58.440 --> 00:56:01.350	Graham Dobbin: Talking about American football not proper football. Am I correct
00:56:01.410 --> 00:56:03.540	Carmen Bott: That is correct gridiron yeah
00:56:04.110 --> 00:56:06.210	Carmen Bott: I have I have trained a few
00:56:07.530 --> 00:56:12.930	Carmen Bott: Soccer athletes in the past, but it's not an area that I do specialize in
00:56:13.410 --> 00:56:15.690	Graham Dobbin: I'm really brave when there's distance between us.
00:56:17.160 --> 00:56:18.390	Carmen Bott: No problem. But yeah.
00:56:18.420 --> 00:56:24.720	Graham Dobbin: But you know minute, wait a minute, just really quickly range to before, for sure, three traits that you believe a great leader needs to have
00:56:25.260 --> 00:56:41.700	Carmen Bott: So we know well I think I already gave you guys one and I said it was a self awareness being agile and fluid my number two was a clear understanding or acceptance of the people you're working with and what they bring to the table. You need to know your people.
00:56:42.210 --> 00:56:43.440	Graham Dobbin: And finding it just before
00:56:43.740 --> 00:56:55.020	Carmen Bott: Last one, zero, fear not only communicate face to face no texting or emailing like straight up. Let's have a beer and a conversation
00:56:56.070 --> 00:56:57.870	Carmen Bott: You know, good communication skills.
00:56:58.110 --> 00:57:04.770	Graham Dobbin: Common common bought. Thank you very much. You've been listening to the mind behind leadership. Thank you to some live events or producer tonight.
00:57:05.040 --> 00:57:18.750	Graham Dobbin: And remember my to offer the research and from make messenger for keeping me right and keeping this show going. We will be back next week with another episode of the main bank leadership live here on talk radio dot NYC. Have a good night.
00:57:19.440 --> 00:57:21.330	Carmen Bott: Good night, everyone. Thank you. Bye.


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Q: Javascript doesn't run with both electron and canvas libraries installed I'm trying to use electron and canvas in the same script, but it throws an error when I try. I've tried using canvas and electron separately with the same node version and they worked perfectly fine. Here is the error I am getting
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was compiled against a different Node.js version using
NODE_MODULE_VERSION 102. This version of Node.js requires
NODE_MODULE_VERSION 89. Please try re-compiling or re-installing
the module (for instance, using `npm rebuild` or `npm install`).
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    at Object.Module._extensions..node (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1138:18)
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Plakatstil  a fost un anumit stil grafic, având programatic dorința unui mare impact vizual, utilizat în designul afișelor sau posterelor la sfârșitul secolului al XIX-lea și începutul secolului al XX-lea, stil care a provenit din Germania. În germană Plakatstil înseamnă "stil al afișului".

Conform Plakatstil-ului, modul de realizare al afișelor este unul îndrăzneț, atrăgător și esențializat, dar, în același timp este nuanțat și detailat la elementele cele mai importante ale comunicării subiectului expus. Mai exact, formele, obiectele, literele sunt simplificate, în timp ce subiectul propriu-zis este realizat cu o mare bogăție de mijloace grafice și coloristice, combinații nemaivăzute înainte.

Descriere
Culorile și modul în care acestea sunt combinate în Plakatstil nu au mai fost văzute și folosite anterior, fiind atât neobișnuite cât și memorabile. Din acest punct de vedere Plakatstil-ul este un fel de "desprindere" de curentul artistic contemporan Art Nouveau, numit Jugendstil în Germania și, respectiv, Secesiunea vieneză în Austria. Spre deosebire de complexul, manieristul și sofisticatul Art Nouveau, stilul german al afișului este direct, absorbant și eficace.

"Virarea" produsă de Plakatstil în domeniul vizualului a fost extrem de novatoare pentru timpul său, ajutând la crearea unei alte modalități de a vedea, realiza și percepe arta modernă, respectiv a educa privitorii spre o altă înțelegere a rolului afișului în transmiterea informației, și deci în realizarea unei comunicări mai eficiente.

Revista

Das Plakat a fost o revistă de artă din Germania, care a fost publicată în 1910 de Verein der Plakat Freunde (în ).  Societatea fusese fondată de dentistul Hans Sachs. Berlinezul Lucian Bernhard a fost, printre alțele, directorul societății.

Câțiva dintre artiștii timpului care au produs afișe de mare impact vizual, fiind exponenți ai Plakatstil-ului, sunt berlinezii: Lucian Bernhard, Hans Rudi Erdt, Ludwig Hohlwein, Franz Stuck și Ludwig Sütterlin.

Legalitate

Ulterior, afișele realizate de ambele părți ale Oceanului Atlantic vor fi influențate de Plakatstil, marcând eficiența și forța impactului vizual stradal în conștiința publică. Printre altele, afișele vor fi folosite ca puternice arme de propagandă în timpul celui de-Al Treilea Reich, dar mai ales în perioada celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial.

Referințe

Postere
Anii 1890
Anii 1900
Anii 1910
Artă modernă
Arta în Germania
Design
Mișcări și genuri artistice
Secolul al XIX-lea
Secolul al XX-lea

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Q: create child table function using cursor in postgresql CREATE FUNCTION create_child1()
 RETURNS TABLE(sys_user_id integer,
  sys_service_id integer
  )
    LANGUAGE 'plpgsql'

    COST 100
    VOLATILE
    ROWS 1000
AS $BODY$

DECLARE
curr_id CURSOR IS
SELECT id FROM users WHERE id in (3089,3090,3091,3092);
v_id bigint;
BEGIN

OPEN curr_id;
LOOP
FETCH curr_id INTO v_id;
EXIT WHEN not found ;

EXECUTE format('
   CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS %I (
  sys_user_id integer,
  sys_service_id integer
  id bigint NOT NULL primary key
)
INHERITS (telemetry_master)
WITH (
  OIDS=FALSE
)', 'telemetry_' || v_id);

end loop;

close curr_id;

fetch next from curr_id into v_id;

END

$BODY$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;

A: You do not need an explicit cursor in your function. You can use a simple FOR ... IN ... LOOP.
It is unclear what you want to return from the function. For example, it can return a readable text about each created table.
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION create_child1()
RETURNS SETOF text LANGUAGE plpgsql
AS $BODY$
DECLARE
    v_id int;
BEGIN
    FOR v_id IN 3089..3092 LOOP
        EXECUTE format('
            CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS telemetry_%s (
                sys_user_id integer,
                sys_service_id integer,
                id bigint NOT NULL primary key
            )
            INHERITS (telemetry_master)', v_id);
        RETURN NEXT format('telemetry_%s created.', v_id);
    END LOOP;
END $BODY$;

Use:
SELECT create_child1();

      create_child1
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 telemetry_3089 created.
 telemetry_3090 created.
 telemetry_3091 created.
 telemetry_3092 created.
(4 rows)

If the ids are not consecutive you can use unnest(), e.g.:
    FOR v_id IN SELECT id FROM unnest(array[3000,3001,3020,3021]) AS id LOOP


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PHOTO: Get a Bird's-Eye View of the Construction Going on at Disney Springs!
By Kelly Scott 1 Comment
From Remy's Ratatouille Adventure to the Spaceship Earth renovation, LOTS of projects at Disney World have been delayed this year, likely due in large part to the global pandemic and park closures.
Beatrix Construction
Some of the projects that have also been delayed are Beatrix and the M&M's Store, both of which are set to come to Disney Springs. But, construction has continued on other projects around Disney World. So, how is Disney Springs looking now? Today we got a peek from the sky!
Bioreconstruct shared the following aerial image on their Twitter (@bioreconstruct) of Disney Springs. The top right arrow points to where Everglazed Donuts & Cold Brew is being constructed. The bottom right arrow is the location of the M&M's Store. On the left, the arrow on the top was where Ample Hills was meant to be, and the yellow arrow in the bottom left points to the area where Beatrix was being constructed.
©Bioreconstruct via Twitter (@bioreconstruct)
We've seen quite a lot of construction going on lately at Everglazed and are looking forward to that spot opening soon.
Everglazed
In terms of the M&M Store, its grand opening has been delayed until 2021, but we've also seen construction moving along there recently.
Ample Hills unfortunately will no longer be operating in Disney World, and its "coming soon" sign that used to be in Disney Springs was removed earlier this year.
But, what really interested us in this photo was Beatrix. Based on the photo from Bioreconstruct, the area where Beatrix is meant to be (bottom left arrow) is currently a whole lot of…well, nothing (at least in terms of its visual appearance from this view). Here's a peek at that photo again.
When Beatrix was announced back in 2019, we saw construction walls go up and the Bongos building come down, but construction (at least in terms of anything we could see) seemed to be moving very slowly. Later, construction was paused, and based on this aerial photo, it looks like not much as been done since (at least from what we can see).
Beatrix Construction in May of 2020
Beatrix was set to be a "neighborhood restaurant, coffeehouse, and grab-and-go market featuring healthy food options including vegetarian, gluten-free, and vegan along with fresh-squeezed juice cocktails." It was also supposed to include an in-house bakery, and an American beer and wine selection.
The Beatrix website still notes that the restaurant plans to open its Disney Springs location, and the Disney Springs website still lists this spot as "Coming Soon!"
With construction progressing at the future locations of Gideon's Bakehouse and Everglazed Donuts & Cold Brew in Disney Springs, as well as other spots, we're certainly hoping to see or hear an update about Beatrix soon. We'll keep our eyes out for more updates and let you know what we find.
Click here to get a first look at the menu for Gideon's Bakehouse, which will be opening soon in Disney Springs!
What new spot coming to Disney Springs are you most excited for? Let us know in the comments!
What's New at Disney Springs: Some Fall Decor Removed, More Holiday Items Coming Soon, and LOTS of Construction Updates!
What's New in Disney Springs: Mint Cannolis, the Most Adorable Rubber Duck Drink, and a BRAND NEW Uniqlo Collection!
Pardon Disney's Pixie Dust: This Disney World Construction Could Impact Your Next Vacation
PHOTOS: There's a NEW Tea Bar in Disney Springs and We're Samplin' the Goods!
TONS of Holiday Treats Are Coming to Disney Springs! Check Them Out HERE!
Filed Under: Disney News, Disney Springs, Featured, Snacks, Walt Disney World Tagged With: ample hills, Beatrix, construction, delayed, delays, Disney, disney springs, Disney World, Everglazed Donuts & Cold Brew, M&M's Store, Update, Walt Disney World
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Nothing there for me. Downtown Disney and the West Side used to be a fun place to go, even after Pleasure Island was gone, the Magnet Store, Starbelia's, and a lot of other fun shops were a draw for my family. Now it it full of expensive clothing stores and restaurants, not so much fun any more.

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Q: Making git show to show information in a machine parseable format I have read parsing git log output, preferably as xml but that does not help. I am trying to get the following information about a Git tag.

*

*User that created the tag

*Message associated with tag creation if any

*The name of the tag (I know this as I already pass this) but I want them in the output so that I can just pass the whole output back to my caller

*The latest commit id on that tag

I would prefer them as CSV or space/tab separated values so I was trying to use the --format option. I was trying things like
 git show my_label_name --pretty=format:"%an, %cn" --quiet

but this does not produce what I want. What can I try next?

A: git cat-file tag <tag_name>

will give you the actual contents of the file that represents that tag (helpfully unpacked and uncompressed).
Example
$ git init
$ touch README
$ git add README
$ git commit -m 'Initial commit'
$ git tag -a foo -m 'Tagging foo'
$ git cat-file tag foo
object 91654534f5ac138a3adb56a9e6dc3bacae5bae53
type commit
tag foo
tagger Peter Lundgren <peter@peterlundgren.com> 1369779403 -0400

Tagging foo


Half of Dutch Teens Have Mild Psychotic Experiences Regularly Apparently, teens are no strangers to having mild psychotic experiences such as delusional thoughts or moderate feelings of paranoia, according to doctoral research by Hanneke Wigman of The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. According to Wigman, there are five kinds of mild psychotic experiences: hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, megalomania and paranormal convictions.
About 40 percent of the nearly 7,700 Dutch adolescents aged 12 to 16 years reported that they often have such experiences. Some examples of mild psychotic experiences include hearing voices, feeling that thoughts are being taken out of your head or the feeling that others are acting differently from what they are.
Hearing Voices in Your Head Is Normal While Reading People who imagine voices may not be so crazy after all. While glossing over dialogue in books, readers will speak the voices–as they imagine the speaker–in their heads, a Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience study finds. The transcript of an Obama speech features his deep cadence in your head. Or Hermione sounds like Emma Watson. That sort of thing.
Using MRIs, researchers distinguished the parts of your brains that activate while reading different parts of books. When readers reach a bit of dialogue, they likely create "spontaneous imagery" of the reported speakers voice.
Jacqui Dillon to Speak on Hearing Voices The standard medical model of human suffering treats experiences of voices and visions as symptoms of serious mental illness requiring treatment and eradication. Psychology professor Gail Hornstein is bringing British mental health expert and voice hearer Jacqui Dillon to MHC for a talk that challenges this notion of what it is like to hear voices. Dillon is a writer, campaigner, speaker, and an internationally known mental health trainer specializing in psychosis, trauma, and dissociation. She will share her expertise in her talk "Bad Things That Happen to You Can Drive You Crazy!: Understanding Abuse, Trauma, and Madness and Working toward Recovery" Tuesday, March 22 at 7:30 pm in Dwight Hall, room 101.


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We were there to tag along with a couple of other photographers who wanted to capture these two in action. We ultimately didn't want to get in their way but managed to sneak in a quick roller or two for ourselves.
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News for Jeremy Enigk
NEWS : THU, APR 12, 2018 at 7:00 AM
Sub Pop To Release Jeremy Enigk's Solo Debut, The Newly Remastered 'Return of the Frog Queen: Expanded Edition' on May 25th, 2018
U.S. East Coast Living Room Tour Is Underway Now Through April 24th.
On May 25th, 2018, Sub Pop will release Return of the Frog Queen, the newly remastered debut solo album from Jeremy Enigk. Return of the Frog Queen has been out of print since its original 1996 pressing. This reissue includes the original album, remastered in 2018, plus digital bonus tracks from Enigk's 1996 live session on Seattle radio station The End.
Jeremy Enigk performed with legendary indie rock band Sunny Day Real Estate from 1993 to 2000. In 1996, following Sunny Day Real Estate's first breakup (which lasted from 1995 to 1997), Enigk released Return of the Frog Queen.
Return of the Frog Queen represents a major shift from the sound of Sunny Day Real Estate. The album features a 21-piece orchestra backing Enigk as he performs striking, dramatic, chamber-pop compositions that demonstrate the full breadth of Enigk's talents as a singer, musician, and songwriter. The album was produced by Greg Williamson, who also produced Sunny Day Real Estate's 1998 comeback album, How it Feels to Be Something On.
Return of the Frog Queen is now available for preorder from Sub Pop. The vinyl edition of the album will be available on a limited run of purple vinyl (while supplies last).
Return of the Frog Queen
1. Abegail Anne
2. Return of the Frog Queen
3. Lewis Hollow
4. Lizard
5. Carnival
6. Call Me Steam
7. Explain
8. Shade and the Black Hat
9. Fallen Heart
10. Abegail Anne*
11. Return of the Frog Queen*
12. Lizard*
13. Carnival*
14. Explain*
*The End Sessions CD and
digital-only bonus tracks
Tour Dates + Ticket Links
Jeremy Enigk 2018 tour schedule is underway, with a U.S. east coast Living Room tour through April 24th. Additional live dates will be announced soon. Please visit Jeremy Enigk's website here for more info.
[Photo Courtesy of the Artist]
About Jeremy Enigk's Return of the Frog Queen
Three good reasons why it's hard to remember a time when an album like Jeremy Enigk's Return of the Frog Queen sounded shocking:
1) At the time of its release in 1996, there was no other album like it.
2) In the 22 years between then and now, its marriage of seemingly opposing sensibilities—English folk and American punk; orchestral chamber pop and progressive rock; surreal, pastoral, fanciful lyrics that burn to express personal, emotional, and spiritual quandary—has become the blueprint for so much great music that a young listener can be forgiven for thinking that things were always just like that.
This isn't to claim some kind of Velvet Underground/Big Star status for the album, but it is to say that you can draw a straight line between Frog Queen and elements of Elliott Smith, Belle & Sebastian, Rufus Wainwright, Destroyer, the Decemberists, Fleet Foxes, Sufjan Stevens, Beirut, Grizzly Bear, Joanna Newsom, Bon Iver, and many, many other artists who have come to define the past two decades of indie music.
3) It's getting harder to remember anything anymore.
But Return of the Frog Queen is worth remembering. Or discovering. And most definitely celebrating. Though you rarely see it turn up on lists of 50 Best Things of Whatever Year We Wish We Still Lived in Because the Present Is Such a Consummate Drag, the album was an indisputable innovation in the world of '90s indie rock, rewriting a litany of unwritten rules about sound, subject matter, and solo identity for lead singers of successful bands.
As you probably know, Enigk was the singer/guitarist of Sunny Day Real Estate, the Seattle quartet widely credited as the Big Bang of the post-hardcore, indie rock variant of emo that would spend the next decade morphing into a massively commercial enterprise.
You can't blame Sunny Day Real Estate for that, though. They were just a young, powerhouse band who happened to be several years ahead of their time.
SDRE's debut album, Diary, and its first single, "Seven," was a seismic event, not least in the lives of the band members. It was released in May of 1994, one month and two days after Kurt Cobain's suicide was discovered. Diarybecame Sub Pop's biggest-selling album since Bleach—a distinction that lasted until the next decade.
The story of the band's splintering during the making of their follow-up album (LP2)—and triumphant reunion a few years later—has been well-told elsewhere. But for our purposes, it's worth bearing in mind that the break-up drama formed the background from which Return of the Frog Queen emerged.
In the space of about two years, Jeremy Enigk had joined a band with some friends, toured the world, sold way more records than anyone had anticipated, been heralded with hyperbolic—not to say unwarranted—praise, become a significant voice to a lot of young listeners, experienced a religious epiphany that he spoke of publicly, and watched the band buckle and fall apart, much to the dismay of a public that was only just starting to figure out how to broadcast its anxious speculations and judgments on the internet.
By the time the band broke up, he had been loved, respected, celebrated, criticized, vilified, and reproached. He was 21 years old.
One might expect a person might respond to all this sturm und drang by making noisy, chaotic, electric guitar-driven music of the kind his now-defunct band made its name with. One might expect someone whose character and even sanity had been widely debated in public might want to write a definitive statement about his identity, his ideology, his id.
But Jeremy Enigk didn't do either of those things. He made Return of the Frog Queen instead.
ENTER THE FROG QUEEN
The songs that formed the basis of Enigk's first solo album were about as far from the sound of Sunny Day Real Estate as you could imagine—unless all you'd heard of them was "Pheurton Skeurto," the little piano songlet that sounds (delightfully) out of place on Diary.
Spare acoustic guitar figures and solemn, almost plainsong melodies are the foundational elements, which Enigk and his two key collaborators, producer Greg Williamson and arranger/conductor Mark Nichols, build up into astonishingly dynamic worlds of sound. But for all the swoops and bends, the unconventional entrances and exits, the arrangements remain organic, and perfectly united behind the singular human voice at the center of it all.
From the very first strum on "Abegail Anne," the music is stately, mysterious, vaguely mystical, and not even remotely interested in the ironic detachment still popular in those days.
If anything, the arrangements, and the stupefyingly strong vocals, are flagrantly theatrical. Enigk sang hard over loud instruments in SDRE, but nothing prepared you for the versatility of his voice on Frog Queen. From a raspy whisper to conversational chest voice to clearly differentiated levels of high end—choked scream, melodic scream, head voice, falsetto, whatever you want. (And just a wisp of an unconscious British accent.)
But even at the peak of crescendo, as on the staggering climax of "Shade and the Black Hat," on which Enigk wails "WON'T YOU STAY TONIGHT?" at the top of his range while the orchestra whips up a maelstrom—this music feels unfailingly intimate, while somehow remaining intensely private.
This is the central enigma (enigkma?) of the album: How can a song be both intimate and private? How can music that feels like fearless personal revelation grow more opaque the more closely you examine at it? Consider the author, and what his life was like at the time these songs were written and recorded. It's easy to imagine a 21-year-old rock star manqué feeling overwhelmed, overexposed, overanalyzed, hungry for a kind of solace in which sound precedes meaning.
And yet, meaning is all over the record if you're looking.
In among the pleasing, suggestively abstract imagery—"dallow water," and "this dubious day," and "window morning dream paradise"—Enigk plants lines that don't require much interpretation at all if you've ever been anywhere near a break-up of a band or any other relationship, ever worried about what strangers might be saying about you, ever felt unseen, ever re-ran edited versions of old arguments in your mind, ever believed in something so fiercely that you were willing to lose friendships over it.
"Wait for, wait for me…"
"I've heard rumors…"
"No one knows my name…"
"What I've seen tears me inside…"
"Then the writing on the wall
said he is only the way
You said it was bad timing
at least we had timing at all."
These lines are crucial, but they're also non-sequiturs, there for you to discover if you're looking, but the songs still work beautifully if you never do.
But beyond the literal, there's a spirit of fabulism in the lyrics—hardly a surprise on a record named after amphibian royalty. Who is this "Abegail Anne"? Where is this sleepy, enchanted "Lewis Hollow"? What does "hi, hey" mean? And how does he proceed so artfully from idle, drowsy contemplation of a lizard in a castle, observing the tremors of its "dreary heart," to the roaring, soaring cascade of frustration bursting forth at song's end? Who is being addressed, and by whom?
Trying to tease out the puzzle of these artfully esoteric lyrics has proven to be one of the album's most durable pleasures (or possibly frustrations, if you prefer things spelled out). As time passes, the words might seem meaningless or profound depending on who you are, not who Enigk was.
It makes for an odd spin on the idea of self-revelation. The album unquestionably opens a window onto an unorthodox artist, pursuing an unorthodox process, to arrive at a most unorthodox production. But as with any great artwork, the real subject is the person looking at it.
ONWARD AND INWARD
Even after two decades, it's difficult to find a name for the atmosphere conjured by the album. There are traces of Incredible String Band pastoralia, but also a strain of Pink Floydish unease. Bowie between Man Who Sold the Worldand Hunky Dory. It's not dark exactly, but only because your eyes have adjusted to candlelight. It feels mystical, even metaphysical.
Emphasis on "physical."
Jack Rabid of The Big Takeover nailed it in two sentences from his review:
"He pounds a piano and howls like his wife just left him for his best friend, as the violins, violas, and cellos scrape at their strings as if to break them, and the flutes, piccolos, trumpets, trombones, French horns, and clarinets blow like they were hired by a wolf to blast a few recalcitrant pigs' houses down. The waves of classical countermelodies are extraordinary, adding on to each other to create an 1812 Overture anvil clarion call, a roar so dense, so overpowering, it's like gasoline exploding, even more so as they back Enigk's fevered wail as if he were long past desperation."
Return of the Frog Queen was the very last thing anyone would have expected to come out of the singer of Sunny Day Real Estate, or really, the Pacific Northwest at that time—which was not long past a different kind of desperation.
Without knowing or intending it, Enigk and his collaborators made a record that pointed the way out of Seattle's mid-'90s post-boom-years malaise, which had no shortage of talent and desire, but lingering ambivalence about ambition, and no clear sense of cultural direction.
And then all of a sudden, here came an utterly singular demonstration that when all else fails, the most reliable direction is usually inward.
It's unlikely that a generation of hopeful teenage garage bands formed as a response to eager suburban teens getting an earful of Return of the Frog Queen. Maybe it's just a coincidence then, that in the years following the record's release (and the breathtaking live shows Enigk played with a stripped-down version of the 21-piece orchestra that plays on the record), indie music from the Pacific NW outwards, got more expansive, more idiosyncratic, a little riskier, and a lot weirder.
But it was for sure never the same.
FRI, JUN 26, 2009 at 5:19 AM
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TUE, JUN 23, 2009 at 4:01 AM
Sunny Day Real Estate reunion tour plus Sub Pop reissues of Diary and LP2
Following a more than 10 year hiatus, all four original members of pioneering Seattle rock band Sunny Day Real Estate will regroup for a 20-date US tour starting Sept. 17th, 2009. In addition, Sub Pop Records will re-issue both Diary and the band's second full-length album, commonly known as LP2 (or The Pink Album for its entirely pink cover). Both re-mastered albums will include rare bonus tracks as well as newly written liner notes and will be released on both CD and LP Sept. 15, 2009, just prior to the start of the tour. Tour dates can be found here.
Originally formed in Seattle in 1992, Sunny Day Real Estate featured Nate Mendel (bass), William Goldsmith (drums), Dan Hoerner (guitar,vocals) and Jeremy Enigk (vocals, guitar). Diary , the band's first full-length album, was released in 1994 on Sub Pop, going on to become the seventh-best selling record in the label's history with more than 231,000 copies scanned in the US alone. Diary was recorded at Chicago's Idful Studios with producer Brad Wood and released to critical acclaim. Following the completion of a US Tour to support the debut release, the group headed back into the studio with Wood to record the follow-up.
But during the recording sessions, internal tensions splintered Sunny Day Real Estate, resulting in a sudden break-up and the finished album being turned in to Sub Pop without a title or artwork. LP2 was released in November 1995, by which time both Goldsmith and Mendel had joined Foo Fighters and Enigk had begun a solo career. Without Mendel, Sunny Day Real Estate reunited in 1997 and released two more studio albums (the 1998 Sub Pop release How It Feels to Be Something On and in 2000 The Rising Tide on Time Bomb) before disbanding again in 2001. Sunny Day Real Estate's influence has grown exponentially since the band's initial split.
"I wasn't around for the second version of the band that recorded the 3rd and 4th albums, so I've always had a feeling of unfinished business there," Mendel explains. "We had all these out-sized ideas back then, 'Everyone's going to learn a new instrument,' and 'Let's do a rock opera,' but before we could get anywhere with them, the band broke up. We left behind all these weird and beautiful songs, though, and they've stuck with me all this time. I'm really happy that we get a chance to play them together again."
These new editions of both Diary and LP2 will be available everywhere including sunnydayrealestate.fm and here at subpop.com.
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