Dave Martin | Sports + stupidity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Devoting all your effort and time into leaving a legacy is like going to Disneyland and instead of actually going on the rides, you spend the whole day convincing people that no one has ever ridden Disneyland’s rides with such valour, bravery and heroism as you. That you ride the rides at Disneyland in a way that no man could ever,…
You can make as much money as you can or buy or collect as many things as you want but there’s one thing that can’t be recovered. The thing that once you waste, you can’t get back: time. How much closer would we be to the life we want if we didn’t waste it on things or with people we feel obliged to…
This is Marie Kondo. She teaches people ‘the Japanese art of decluttering and organising.’ Marie Kondo (or ‘KonMari’) recommends going through all your things, category by category¹ and only keeping those that ‘spark joy’. She makes a clear distinction between her approach and minimalism though –It’s not about having less stuff, because as she tells Tim Ferriss, it’s about loving what you own.…
If you google ‘What’s the most important thing in life?’ I doubt ‘gratitude’ comes up as the #1 result¹. But it is. Gratitude for being alive, gratitude for having what you have, gratitude for being able to experience all the good stuff that’s in the world, nature, the ocean and all the stuff in between, and most importantly perhaps, gratitude…
I hate to use the word ‘should’ because it implies judgement that that person is wrong and I’m right, but you know what, fuck it –every person SHOULD watch this video at least once every year: My wife’s mum sent me this yesterday¹. It came out in 1999 but it’s just as relevant as it was then as it is now (if not more…
When an internet troll’s at his computer¹, he sees himself like this: But in reality, he’s probably as tough and hardcore as this: Ask anyone who’s been successful in what they do and see if they get people trolling them… Just go to Lebron’s Instagram to see a million people trolling him about crying 6 years ago or about his…
How did ‘routine’ get such a bad name? Anyone whoever got good at ANYTHING –any skill, craft, any sport, any instrument or any discipline– didn’t do ‘a little bit today’, then say ‘I can’t be bothered’ the next 3 days, then ‘go hard’ the next day to make up for the last 3 days, then ‘fuck it, I’ll take it…
A student walks up to me after the class I taught as a substitute today… ‘You’re gonna hate me… but all these boxes… this is how many times today you said the word ‘okay’… Damn, that is a lot of boxes. 270. During a class where I’d told them how important it is to get rid of verbal tics to…
A lot of us are familiar with the story of Into the Wild. Dude (Christopher McCandless or ‘Alexander Supertramp’) ditches all his material possessions, leaves behind the ratrace and his college degree and hitches up to Alaska to live amongst the bears and the salmon and the deer and a big bus for a while. Twist in the story: Dude…
This is Turia Pitt (on the cover of her recently released memoir). Her story’s remarkable (for a good version, read this), it’s one that’s necessary to understand who she is and and it’s also one that everyone could benefit from hearing. But I doubt she wants one bushfire she got trapped in, back in 2011, to define who she is. As…