Dave Martin | Sports + stupidity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the Player King says: ‘Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.’There are billions of scenarios that you can dream up and for things to happen in a some imagined way, but in the end you may no control over external consequences of things that involve more than just what you do. Focus only what…
When someone tells you ‘Don’t panic!’ or ‘Don’t get stressed’ or even ‘Don’t worry’, the last thing that your brain hears is: ‘Panic!’, ‘Get stressed’ and ‘worry’. But it doesn’t only happen with commands. It’s not only when people are trying to reassure you that their intention may have the opposite affect. You may be doing this to yourself subconsciously.…
If you get accepted into something, or approved of for something, or given something based on your performance… yes, you had some control over getting it, but largely (or sometimes entirely) the decision was out of your hands. So if you’re congratulated for it, is that sort of like being congratulated for splitting the atom? For being #1 on the women’s…
Your future is decided by you. It isn’t set. Every day, there are hundreds, or thousands of decisions you make in your own mind of how to deal with things and what they mean to you. But nothing is decided. You may not decide the things that happen out of your control, but you do decide how you see them.…
Seattle head coach Pete Carroll is one of the most recognisable Stoics in the world (at least in the world of sports). And today, the Seattle Seahawks needed to win to make the NFL playoffs. But not only that, they needed another result to go their way, in a game that was going on simultaneously. Coach Carroll made sure that the…