Dave Martin | Sports + stupidity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There’s a lot of reasons Robert California is one of the greatest fictional characters there ever was and here’s another one. When two people start talking about personal relationship shit in front of him, they start to feel bad for him and pitifully tell him, ‘I’m sorry this must make you uncomfortable’. To which he replies: I am never uncomfortable.…
Communication is what makes us human, enabling us to connect on the deepest level with those around us — telling our own stories, expressing wants, needs and desires, or hearing those of others by really listening. All this is how the world knows who we are. So who are we without it? – Martin Pistorius Imagine not being able to tell anyone anything at all? Not being…
This is something my girlfriend suggested to me after yesterday’s post on the better way to approach knowledge and whether Socrates was taking the piss. If Socrates said ‘There’s only one thing I know – that I know nothing.’, doesn’t that mean that he’s saying he actually knows TWO things? The fact that he knows nothing and 2. The actual…
Kanye has this picture on his living room wall: And it’s there because as he says, ‘Well, I gotta cheer for me before anyone else can cheer for me.’ But isn’t that relying on something else, something out of your control, to give you self worth? Say the picture gets destroyed or gets moved, does that mean he can’t possibly…
This was Chunky after rolling around in the sand down the local beach today: But you think he gives a fuck he has sand all over his face and between his eyeball sockets, looking like some bread crumb-covered weirdo? He couldn’t give a fuck. There’s a reason that our eyeball sockets have stayed in the exact same place since caveman times,…
There are no actual bad things that happen in life. Because the good stuff in life, ok, is great for the joy it gives you, but anything that happens to you that’s crappy at the moment, is an opportunity to turn into something positive. Every time. And something always does, with the right attitude. This dude, from what I get from this…
This is the time Mr Bean went to the amusement park… If you go through shitty times, or high times, with work, it is possible to maintain the same level of balance and untroubledness throughout each of them. Whether complete indifference to everything is healthy is one thing, but working at being in complete control of your emotions when things…
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…
When they teach kids this in primary school: Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. …it’s actually genius. Never ever in the history of the world ever ever has something someone said physically hurt, maimed or killed someone. Yet we treat insults as they were physically attacks on our lives, a threat to our safety,…
Happiness is a choice. And the same thing goes for whether you decide to focus on your fears and anxieties for the future, things you can’t control, things you don’t have and the negative things in your life OR on the positives in it, what you do control, what you do have and the work you’ve done to become the person you are today. It’s a choice. And it’s…