Dave Martin | Sports, stupidity & real-time data analysis ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Stereotypes are complete bullshit. You are not your nationality, you are a person in the world with a different personality from everyone else, who happened to be born in and grow up in some place in the world. Japanese are a super calm, tranquil people right? Well they also have 14 levels of expressing anger and ‘anger rooms’, a place…
These are the richest people in the world. Wowee. If aliens are watching us from somewhere right now, they would have to ascertain that, based on how much we value money and how much we talk about the salaries of the top earners in the world, (in sports or technology or entertainment), and how one of the top dreams of…
Tomorrow and yesterday were at a distance. – Snufkin There’s a theory that the only real you that exists is the one you are now. And the only moment that exists is this one right now. And that’s one’s now gone (ie. doesn’t exist anymore). You don’t live in the future (or die in it either) –you live and die…
Seattle head coach Pete Carroll is one of the most recognisable Stoics in the world (at least in the world of sports). And today, the Seattle Seahawks needed to win to make the NFL playoffs. But not only that, they needed another result to go their way, in a game that was going on simultaneously. Coach Carroll made sure that the…
If you want to change something, or do something better, you a) don’t have to wait until an arbitrary time marker (a new calendar year) to do it. Additionally, if you make a New Year’s resolution, by definition it’s something you want to do in the whole next year. So say you make a new year’s resolution for 2018 to…
On Christmas Day, Pope Francis made the customary annual address from the Vatican. In it, he said ‘the winds of war’ are blowing stronger than ever and he called for an end to the fighting and for a two-state solution in Israel to bring peace to the region (War, being an invention of this generation, of course never existed until…
There is no such thing as “Can’t” (other than ‘I can’t live without water/oxygen etc.’, and those laws of physics which are limiting, e.g. I can’t fly to South East Asia from Australia just by flapping my arms’)*. But for everything else, there’s no can’t, only ‘Don’t’. If you find yourself thinking you can’t do something, it’s possible to ask…
The only true wisdom consists of knowing that you know nothing. But actually does it? Or was Socrates taking the piss? No like for reals…?
Throughout the ages, wisdom hasn’t changed. We were the exact same species one hundred, five hundred, two thousand and 5 thousand years ago. We still all live and we die (for now). Whether our inability to process and accept wisdom is the reason for the wisdom never evolving is another thing, but the medium or who said or says it…
You are not you. If it weren’t all the people you’ve met or had experiences with, whether in person or even in narrative or documentaries, you wouldn’t be the same you. And where you are born and the situation you’re born into to is something you have absolutely no control over. And it has a huge effect on the person…