Dave Martin | Sports + stupidity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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When someone runs because it’s starts raining, it’s usually because they’re thinking one of these things: ‘Aarrrgh. My ______ ‘s going to get ruined.’ or 2. ‘Oh dear. I’m soon going to be uncomfortable.‘ If number two actually makes you stronger and makes for a more tangible, memorable, significant experience, Number one is bullshit because anything that actually matters, ie. anything…
There’s a reason people in cities are more stressed than those in the country. Or why people in the city look at you like you’re an asshole if you make eye contact, whereas on the coast they say hello… Negative ions. They’re odourless, tasteless molecules from the air that when inhaled, they enter the bloodstream and create biochemical reactions that increase…
There’s this beautiful series of 20 books called ‘Great Ideas’ published by Penguin. These are the two I have: And one of the others in the series is The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli. Now, when you think of ‘Machiavellian’ you think of: cunning; exploitative; manipulative; brazen; heartless; wanton; deceptive, or evil. So basically, all in one word: Cunty. Machievelli’s known as…
Sometimes it takes a while to understand something. Like, when you stay at an Airbnb and they explain the shower to you, that you got to fully open the hot water, then give it a tiny bit of cold, then back off the cold quickly, other wise it’ll be absolutely freaking freezing for the next ten minutes, then give it a…
Spanning over 2300 years, there’s one thing that bound Plato’s Socrates, Henry David Thoreau and Confucius together: They all knew nothing, and they knew it. This was a song Thoreau sang to himself while cutting, hewing and chopping wood in 1845¹: Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, – The arts and sciences, and a…
When you’re a kid there’s no limits. You haven’t learnt what is and isn’t impossible yet. Your boundaries haven’t been tainted by what grown-ups have already seen and heard. Then you grow up, start getting tested, see how important passing and how scary failing is and you begin to put limits on yourself. ‘I’m just not a writing type of…
Occasionally we hear of customs, practices, laws or traditions that surprise, shock or even sicken us. I’m thinking of things like Japanese whaling, women not being allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia or genital mutilation in Afghanistan. So things like these being (a) out of our jurisdiction and (b) out of our understanding take a long time to change. Foreign influence…
Ever been in this situation? — How the HOLY GODDAMN HELL do you reply to that question??? ‘What’s up’? or: or just the polite: My friend Jonesy is one of the people I can rely on in any type of dilemma or crisis (and I have done). He’s also the most sociable person I’ve ever met –there isn’t one social situation…
When some thing of ours breaks or gets destroyed, there’s usually two ways to look at it: The first way’s to look at it solely from our own blinkered point of view, to get fired up and pissed off, blame others and convince ourselves that yes, this is a big deal. The second way’s to think, ‘You know what… who really gives a flying…
How did some of our language get all twisted around, bent out of shape? And how much of it is based on white lies, politeness, placating or keeping the peace? Ryan Holiday, the author of the great book I read a page of every morning, The Daily Stoic, wrote an article about the 100 things he learned from reading Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations 100…