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…
* That last one, my brother told me that one. When I found out it wasn’t true (when I was about 6), I cried. When someone pisses you off, says something that just gets to you (and cuts deep), someone does something that immediately makes you uncomfortable, or something happens that immediately makes you cringe with anxiety or panic with…
Not only do insults have absolutely zero possibility to do physical or psychological harm to you, but the same thing goes for anything someone says to you. If someone expresses their disappointment in you, orders you to do something, tells you did something wrong or stupidly, those words have as much ability to physically or emotionally hurt you as if…
Asked how a man should best grieve his enemy, Epictetus replied, “By setting himself to live the noblest life himself” – The Philosophy of Epictetus CXLIII My mate Matt has this thing that he does: he doesn’t dismiss anything. Because who’s to say if what you’re doing is right or wrong? Even if it’s working for you, maybe there’s an even…
Once dismiss the view you take, and you are out of danger. Who, then, is hindering such a dismissal? – Marcus Aurelius, from Meditations 12:25 What if instead of saying ‘I’m happy’ or ‘I feel like shit’, before the emotion, you put: ‘I choose’? So for example, instead of those you’d say ‘I choose to be happy’ or ‘I choose to…
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge. – Marcus Aurelius from Meditations If someone pisses you off, upsets you, even disappoints you, you have two options: 1. Do exactly the same back to them, because you know, fuck em. They deserve it. or, 2. Realise that they –like you– are figuring out this whole life thing as they go along,…
When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it. – Marcus Aurelius, from Meditations So in other words, when something or someone pisses you off (or tries to), be like Kobe: In the…
Josh Waitzkin has this thing he does, and taught his son to do. Whenever he does something stupid, fucks up or something shitty happens, he thinks ‘This is Great!’ Which not only removes the weight a situation that most of the time is inconsequential, but also helps you move on. Today I went to put the coffee back up in the…