Dave Martin | Sports + stupidity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I’m in California or Mexico right now (probably), so for a few weeks, this is a collection of all my favourite questions I’ve thought of in the last year and bit since I started this blog. You have the answers to everything you want to know (about the world or about yourself) inside of you, all it takes is to ask yourself the right question. And…
Do Nothing, which is of no use. – Miyamoto Musashi Scrolling through your Instagram news feed for 35 minutes ‘just because, you know’, or just opening Snapchat for a couple minutes because ‘you know, why not’ or saying I’m bored and scrolling through your Instagram feed for 28 more minutes is a waste of time, and therefore a waste of life. There is nothing…
In a lot of ways, Snufkin is my hero. Because of this, this and also this. And there’s similarities between Snufkin and another raggedy-clothed fellow who roamed around doing his own thing, without worrying about the distractions, opinions or desires of the outside world –Socrates. Socrates said that the knowing your own mind can get you through anything. It’s all that…
Socrates said that an unexamined life is not worth living. And as is one without purpose. A purpose for everything we do. When’s the last time you handwrote a letter and sent it? I’m about to for the first time since September 2006, to a friend across a shit ton of postcodes (Spain). Why? One, because I’m a luddite and most…
This is what my site’s about: And this is what Marcus wrote in Meditations (10:37): At every action, no matter by whom performed, make it a practice to ask yourself, ‘What is his object in doing this?’ But begin with yourself; put this question to yourself first of all. Coincidink? Yep. Probably. Plus I stole mine from Seneca.
Last week, I had this conversation with one of English students, who needs to rapidly improve his English to pass an upcoming exam: Student: ‘My brother is an English teacher in Saudi Arabia. He told me to read books to improve my English but I don’t have time –I’m too busy.’ Me: ‘Why? What do you usually do in your…
If you searched this site for any word, I would’ve thought that you’d get the most hits for ‘Seneca‘ or ‘Bill & Ted‘ or ‘Snufkin‘, but if you search the word ‘actually’ you get 85. That word is one of my favourites. Why? Because most of what we think on the surface appears true and valid. But after you examine it,…
If someone responds to the question, ‘Why do you want to do that?’ with: ‘To challenge myself’, what does that actually mean? One of my mentors a student to task over exactly that and then followed up asking her, ‘Is the point of challenging yourself just to challenge yourself?’ The power of the right question is far greater than a thousand answers. …
Understanding yourself, life and what truly matters isn’t about getting answers –it’s about asking questions. And knowing exactly which ones to ask yourself. One of my mentors introduced me to three powerful questions, ones that if you ask yourself, and answer honestly after examining them, you’ll find what you really want, what you think and what matters to you. We…
Yesterday I wrote that this is the difference between you and anyone else who set out to do anything tough, challenging, gruelling or seemingly impossible. But you know what, F that noise. If you want to learn, do or achieve something difficult, you don’t need most of that stuff in the picture anyway. There’s one thing that matters –the thing…