Everything Joe Mazzulla said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Mazzulla: Peak Leadership Demands Energy Oscillation Over Constant Calm
“I always felt like I had to act quote unquote calm or always had to be a certain way in order to make good decisions or you can't make decisions if you're not calm. And what I learned and something we really started working on was the oscillation process. You …”
Mazzulla: Music subconsciously alters stress levels and impacts subsequent decision-making
“Just by listening to a song, so consciously you're putting your body into a different level of stress than you would even realize. And then that may have an effect on a decision that you make 45 minutes later.”
Mazzulla: Resonant Breathing at Every NBA Timeout Resets In-Game Decision-Making
“She had mentioned doing small resonant breathing before every timeout. And so we have 14 timeouts. Every game. And so I started to ask, like, how many of those are on autopilot? How many of those are you, like, bringing yourself back down to a certain level? H…”
Mazzulla Used HRV Training to Prepare for NBA Head Coaching Pressure
“And so, you know, it being my first year, you know, as a head coach, I wanted to work on myself. I wanted to build an awareness of myself, how my body, how my mind, how my heart reacts to stress so that I could be a precursor for our team, so that I could be t…”
Mazzulla: Holding breath under stress tenses the body and impairs decisions
“There's tendencies for people when they get to a stressful moment to hold their breath, which then tenses their body, which then, you know, doesn't allow them to make the proper decision.”
Mazzulla uses a 5-8 song playlist pre-game to maintain parasympathetic state
“We made a playlist of songs that keep me in, in a flow state that keep me at the level that I need to be in, that give me the opportunity to oscillate. They don't put me in a, you know, sympathetic state. They put me in the ability to be in a parasympathetic s…”
Mazzulla chooses a single guiding word every six to twelve months
“One of the things I like to do is pick a word, you know whether it's for a year, whether it's for, Six months and use that word to have it affect every area of my life to where I can just try to be better.”