Dave Martin | Sports + stupidity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If you’ve ever had to do something hard, what doesn’t matter is how long it’ll take to learn or how hard it is. What does though is asking yourself if you really want to, if it’s worth it and Why. If you do, and you’ve examined and figured out why you want to and if it’s worth it, you can. If…
If you ever think ‘I’m too old’, ‘It’s too late to start’ or ‘I’m not good at anything’: The Only time it’s too late is when you’re dead Homeboy Colonel Sanders was 65 and suicidal when he worked out what he could do better than anyone. And you and every single person you’ve ever met and that lives on this…
Spanning over 2300 years, there’s one thing that bound Plato’s Socrates, Henry David Thoreau and Confucius together: They all knew nothing, and they knew it. This was a song Thoreau sang to himself while cutting, hewing and chopping wood in 1845¹: Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, – The arts and sciences, and a…
I call it ‘Whyism’. Because life is long when you ask yourself why you do ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING. But it’s mad, hella, crazy short when you do things –anything– mindlessly. And I’m not saying everything you do has to be done with the intent to change the world or cure cancer (and yeah we all have some annoying chores that have…