Dave Martin | Sports + stupidity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Guess What, my fiends!! I do you big favour and do travel guide to all 16 host cities for 2026 FIFA World cup in USA, Canada, and Mexcico/. All the best sports – Boom! All the best food -bang! All the best comedy and comedians – blop! All th best music – boom bang! All the best writing and writers…
Learning how to live life matters shit if you don’t actually live it. You can read all the books you want, all the great wisdom from all history’s clearest thinkers, but if you don’t actually live life, enjoy your existence (which is a privilege) and do philosophy (as in putting into practice the approach you have to dealing with difficult times, stressful…
That’s the thing about being human. That our capability and potential is huge. And being human means we should channel it in a way that serves other people and serves the total nature and everything. – From All We Do by Oh Wonder Throughout all the years, the 200,000 of the modern human, throughout all the generations, all the great wisdom…
Epictetus once placed an iron lamp in his home next to his household gods (valuables). He heard a noise at the door and next thing it was gone. He reflected on it and wasn’t fussed about it. He said: To-morrow, my friend, you will find an earthenware lamp; for a man can only lose what he has. – The Philosophy…
The wealthiest person is a pauper at times, Compared to the man with a satisfied mind. (from Satisfied Mind) This is not the most well-known cover that Jeff Buckley recorded, but one thing this guy did amazingly well was to give a cover an unforgettable, Jeff Buckley-ey feel. He recorded it for a radio session in 1992 and it was also played at…
I’ve written about gratitude on this blog more than I have my love for Snufkin or my hate for Murphy’s Law – Here, here, here, here, here, here, oh and also here. Reason is that when you’re grateful, it’s impossible to feel hard done by. Gratitude crowds out all negativity. It’s impossible to feel shitty, pissed off, depressed, stupid, hapless, hard done by, depressed, frumpy,…
The people we meet all make and shape the person who we are. And the most inspirational and virtuous ones are ideally the ones we try to live like. I’ve been fortunate enough to have met and gotten to know many people who are exactly those two things. One of the many is this guy called Tzwika, who I met in…
If you think to yourself ‘I’m invincible’, what’s to say it’s not true? Whatever you think about yourself, it’s true. But I’m not saying in terms of the physical you. Because if someone walks up to you and shoots you with a handgun, point blank, right in the face, or walks up behind you and smashes you in the back of…
If you can read this, you are fortunate to have something that millions of people don’t have around the world – eyesight. And you’re breathing. And that’s something billions can no longer do. Be grateful.
In the good times or bad, go out at night and just look up. The stars have seen everything –all the problems, failures, milestones and successes of everyone ever on Earth. There’s nothing new or shocking to them. Jerry Seinfeld’s going to be remembered as one of the greatest comedians of this generation, and with all the comedians and ‘haha’…
…depending on how strong you are. Yesterday I randomly had a chat with a dude I met while teaching a class at the library. He’s an ex-SAS soldier and he’d been shot 16 times including through his voice box. He told me he was grateful to even have his voice (he had to re-learn how to speak) but also that…