Dave Martin | Sports + stupidity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
How many things do people do just to share online, impress people they know/sort of know/don’t know/hate, or to get likes, views, retweets etc.? A whole bunch of Jacksonville Jaguars fans bought and sent trash cans to the Houston Texans’ Jadaveon Clowney after he called their quarterback Blake Bortles exactly that – trash. But if they couldn’t post it on…
The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength. – From Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations If you want to go through life with a strength of mind and will that is never phased, troubled or damaged, there’s three things you need… The three virtues that will keep you anchored to who you truly are in any situation I’ve talked…
Who am I? What’s Important to me? What do I like? What do I need? Once you take the time to think deeply on these, in as much uncomfortable (and confronting) detail as possible, you’ll make the ‘right’ decision*. The decision that’s the most positive for you, based on who you are right now. *I put right in pretentious air quotes there,…
When you grow up a guy, it’s not cool to talk to other guys about how you feel. If fact it’s kind of discouraged. Most of the time, when you’re a kid or teenager, the other guys are just thinking ‘Oh god, get me the fuck out of here.’ or ‘Fuck this. When’s he gonna shut up? I just wanna talk…
The thing about all the self-help guidance and advice you hear is that the same things have been told for thousands of years. Though the language might have changed, the messages remain exactly the same. What they were telling each other about how to live a good life in Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Through the middle ages, to the Renaissance…
Several times I’ve been asked by English students: ‘How can I improve my writing?’ ‘How can I improve my reading skills?’ ‘I want to get better at speaking. How can I do it?’ And I tell them: You just answered your own question. If you want to write better, write. Want to become a better speaker, speak. And the same…
You know Apple TV, right? Well it’s got this little, paper thin remote and I know someone who’s lost at least 5 of them. In the couch, the kids ran away with it and hid it somewhere, the dog ate it, who knows… But each time they lost it, they’d look for it for a while until they just give…
Can something have more than one point? For example, what’s the point of travelling? To meet new people, experience new things, blah blah blah you know the drill. But is each of those a different point or do they make up the one single point, the one single objective of travelling? The star down the bottom left of this has…
You change every second. Every split second. Because every second, every split second you come closer to the end of your life. So if you’re changing every split second you can never actually completely know yourself and know what you want, what makes you happy and what will. BUT, maybe that doesn’t matter. Maybe just knowing that you don’t know…