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Prof Tim O'Brien @Doctob

@IOE_London Psych & Human Development | Also Prof University of Limerick, Ireland |PhD; CPsychol; FRSM | Many years as men's team psychologist @Arsenal

Joined August 2009
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Prof Tim O'Brien@Doctob
2 Apr 2019
I’m not saying I’m boring - but - the lengths some people go to so they can avoid speaking to me on a train. This is taking it to a new level...
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Always good to be back in Ireland ...
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Prof Tim O'Brien@Doctob
Jun 13
Replying to @PieCorbett @BarbaraBleiman @shabanahfazal
A Level Music entries hit a record low because the arts have been undervalued and undermined for decades. Music now becoming like golf. If you are wealthy and can afford the equipment then you can have access to it.
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Chris Wheatley
@ChrisWheatley
May 30
Inside the psychology that rebuilt Arsenal under Mikel Arteta and took them to a Champions League final 🧠 Rare insight from @Doctob, the psychologist brought in to analyse the culture and support Arteta's big changes 🖼️ The images of success around the training ground 💬 "Tune out the noise, keep your heads down, have each other's backs." sportingnews.com/uk/football…

How Arteta's psychology rebuild took Arsenal to a Champions League final

As Mikel Arteta's Arsenal prepare to make it happen in the UEFA Champions League final, we go inside the winning culture and psychology behind their success this season.

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Job done. More to come #Arsenal #AFC #Champions
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Have had meetings at worse places #Olympics #DorneyLake
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Docks, London. Today
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Busker in Ireland 🇮🇪
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On the flight back from Ireland, I watched the most boring movie I have ever seen. ‘Route to Destination’ lasts for an hour and is just an image of a plane flying from Shannon to Heathrow.
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My eldest daughter just passed her PhD viva (Astrophysics). Out for a meal to celebrate...
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When my dad was made redundant from his job in a factory, he became a window-cleaner. If he was ever in the company of anyone who was pretentious, he would say he was a "vision technician" or a "transparency enhancer" - and then give me a loving and knowing father-to-son wink
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I was team psychologist when Arsenal played Real Madrid in 2006. Won 1-0. Thierry scored. Here's to a win for the Arsenal tonight. Come on you Gunners! Vamos!
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My new Thesaurus is useless. It is also useless
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Birmingham We Are@BirminghamWeAre
6 Apr 2025
Architecture: Modern and classic showcased in the sun in Birmingham. Courtesy @Doctob #Birmingham #LookUpBirmingham
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The results are in: I'm 98% Irish 2% Scottish
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Is anyone else irritated by those plastic lids that have recently become far too emotionally attached to bottles?
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All schools communicate with parents - but that doesn’t mean that all schools connect with parents.
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We must be careful about sanctifying research as absolute truth. We must also be careful about interpretations of research that are driven by confirmation bias.
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It is problematic framing resilience as a fixed personality trait that people have or do not have. Resilience is emergent. It is also context-dependent: we adapt to some contexts and not to others.
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A bit windy in the Cairngorms #Scotland #Reindeer
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Today I have mostly been giving a keynote about why we behave the way we do and how we can behave better than we feel.
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