Scott Stephens @forcemultiplier

Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath "Bro, there is no failure." "That is what other people think of you to keep you down. There's no failure. If you were left on an island and it happened, you would just brush it off and move on. It's everybody else that you think is judging you. But then, here's the secret. They don't give a fuck about you. They are living their own lives. So it's your perception of what they think of you." "There is no failure. There's do and learn. Do and learn. Do and learn. Do and learn." @StanfordAILab

Just write the bad sentence. Pixar's Andrew Stanton on why it's more important to do the work, even if it sucks, than to talk about the great work you'll make (and never do it): "There's a term for it: whistling on the steps of Carnegie Hall. Most people spend more time telling you the symphony they're going to write than the symphony is written. Finish the sentence. I don't care if it doesn't have an ending, or a middle. Just freaking write the sentence. It's gonna be bad. You don't get to the nice sentence until you've written the bad sentence. Writing is rewriting." "It's chipping away at the marble. Every time you decide not to, you're not practicing. So you're just going to be that much less practiced."

🇺🇸 Happy 4th of July! Your greatest potential defeat in life could lead to a lifelong anthem of freedom! Live with hope and remember it’s Freedom Day! The future is full of the peace you’ve always desired even if it feels like the war in life is still raging. God is at work for a great future you can’t even imagine!

Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree

a week ago

In September of 1814, America was once again in trouble. The young republic was only thirty-eight years old. The War of 1812 had gone badly. British troops had marched into Washington, burned the Capitol, set the White House ablaze, and now turned their sights toward Baltimore.

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Trophy level living drink milk 🥛

Sama Hoole @SamaHoole

2 weeks ago

A sixteen-cow farm in Cheshire is rationing its milk and trying to buy another cow, all because the best striker on the planet mentioned it once on YouTube. Erling Haaland drinks raw milk. A glass in the morning, another after training, a ritual he has kept since he was a boy.

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The best striker on the planet eats like a Norwegian farmer from 1850, and the British tabloids called it "cannibalistic." Erling Haaland, the six foot four machine breaking every scoring record in sight, has let the world see his plate, and it reads like a carnivore forum brought to life. He buys beef heart and liver from the butcher and eats them by choice. Fatty steaks, the fattier the better, by his own account. Sea bass, salmon, mackerel. Eggs on sourdough. Raw honey. And his self-described "magic potion," raw milk, which he drinks straight, stirs into his coffee and blends with greens to carry to training. The sourcing is the entire philosophy. Holding up the organs in his documentary, he said most people will not touch them, but he cares about his body and about eating quality local food. Then the line that belongs on a barn door: people say meat is bad, but which meat? The stuff from McDonald's, or the local cow eating grass right over there? Look at what is missing just as hard. No seed oils. No fizzy drinks. No alcohol. No ultra-processed anything. He filters his water and chases the morning sun. The man treats a packet of crisps the way most people treat a syringe. Now the honest footnotes, because the internet lost its mind. The famous 6,000-calorie figure is one he flatly waves away, saying he does not count. His dad's lasagne is a sacred pre-match ritual, he makes brisket tacos in the slow cooker, and his actual favourite food is a kebab pizza he allows himself about once a year. Strip away the cryo chamber and the mouth tape and the part underneath is almost insultingly simple. Whole food, mostly animal, sourced with care, nothing from a factory. The most lethal finisher in football runs on the exact diet the official guidance spent fifty years telling you to fear.

Aaron Judge says one phone call added a ninth year to his $360,000,000 deal and he learned he would become the next Yankees captain “We're going back and forth with different offers from different teams. And I'm telling her, ‘I want to stay in New York. I don't want to go anywhere else.’ Conversations in New York really weren't going anywhere. She was like, ‘Just call Hal. Just call them up. Tell them how you're feeling. Tell them what you think’” “So I shot him a message, and he said, ‘Give me five seconds. I’m going to pull off to the side of the road.’ We call him, and I'm laying it out there. ‘Hey, I don't want to go anywhere. This is where I want to be. If you can just add one more year to the deal. I'm set. I'm not looking for anything more. I just want one more year. I want to play this game for a long time’” “He's like, ‘That's it? All right, done. Sounds good.’ Like, damn, I should have asked for two more years. I was sitting there, Sam’s excited, we're both on the phone on speakerphone, and then all of a sudden he's like, ‘Oh, by the way, we're also going to make you the next Yankee captain. I see you fit right in line with Jeter, Munson, all these guys’” “I was more speechless about that than hearing about agreeing to a nine-year deal. Sam's hitting me, ‘Hey, you got to say something.’ It was just special. It meant a lot. Getting a chance to represent the Yankees, be their captain, it's all about being there for my guys”

.@JoshuaKushner has this great quote: “If you have to choose between the most experienced person, or the most educated person, or the person who wants it the most, you always pick the person who wants it the most.” @danawhite on taking risks and going for it:

The mind is a powerful place and what you feed it can affect you in a powerful way How @tobi got over his fear of public speaking: “I  was terrified of public speaking until I sat down for like a week and every day I spent ten minutes just writing that I like public speaking.” “ If you tell yourself or write something down 100 times about yourself, that writes it into the prefrontal cortex at such a deep level that your brain will start reconciling you to that.” “It’s not a placebo. You actively change your prefrontal cortex.”

This is my humble plea to every Christian pro athlete. We have momentum on the field for the first time in a LONG time. Right now, it needs to be all gas, no brakes.

J.J. Watt says his first reaction to signing a $100 million contract was Googling what rich people buy. “I came home from work that day, and my childhood friend Taylor was hanging out at my house.” “I told him, ‘We did it. We got a deal done.’ He asked what I got, and I said, ‘$100 million.” “We both just looked at each other with the craziest, stupidest grin, thinking this was the most absurd thing ever.” “Then we realized we had absolutely no idea what to do with that much money.” “We literally went to Google and typed in, ‘What do rich people buy?” “We went through lists and lists of yachts, jets, and cars, thinking, ‘I almost have to buy something.” “We kept scrolling and realized, ‘Nah, there’s nothing here I actually need.’ I still haven't bought anything terribly outlandish.”

Christian Pulisic posted a picture of him and his USA teammates in prayer after their World Cup win. His USA teammate Mark McKenzie, who led the prayer, replied to the post referencing Ecclesiastes 4:9-12. So amazing to see USA players praying and sharing scripture. #worldcup

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Scottie Pippen @ScottiePippen

a month ago

Nobody teaches you that discipline feels like punishment until the results start feeling like freedom

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Shaquille O'Neal reveals the advice Magic Johnson gave him at 18 years old that changed how he thought about money and ownership "Magic Johnson said to me at 18 years old when I first met him, because he had an event and they clapped, Magic Johnson, newcomer, it's killing him." "And Magic pulled me to the side and said, it's okay to be beloved by the fans, but at some point you want to start owning things." "And at 18 years old, I had no idea what he was talking about. But as I got older and moved to L.A. and saw how he moved around the community, I was like, okay, this is what I have to start doing."

Charles Barkley says a $300,000 Bentley car costs you way more than you think "When I first got my money, I was an idi*t, I had like three or four cars. Dr. J asked me how many of those cars you got, you drive at the same time? I said, one. He said, well, why you got four?" "This money's got to last you the rest of your life, don't waste all your money on cars, everybody know who you are, you pull up in a Kia, or a Mercedes-Benz or a Rolls-Royce, that's Charles Barkley" "The problem isn't that you can't afford the car, it's that that $300,000 you spent on that Bentley, if you'd bought a cheaper car, you'd have had $200,000 more in the bank, and it would've been growing and growing" "One year, three years, five years, twenty years… that $200,000 is gonna be worth a lot more"

Joe Burrow says seeing his rookie signing bonus hit his account was one of the wildest moments of his life. “My rookie deal was worth about $36 million over four years, with everything guaranteed.” “My signing bonus alone was around $24.6 million.” “The first thing I did was call my financial advisor and ask, ‘What the hell happened?’” “I thought I was getting the full $24 million.” “Then I realized taxes had already taken a huge chunk of it.” “You look at the account and think, ‘Wait… where did the other $12 million go?’”

Cam Newton says the real wealth in the NFL wasn’t his signing bonus, it was seeing massive paychecks hit his account every week. “My rookie contract was worth $22 million guaranteed, and at 20 years old that felt like more money than I could imagine.” “After taxes, a $6 million signing bonus looks a lot different than people think.” “It wasn’t the signing bonus that got me excited.” “It was logging into my account every Tuesday and seeing that green number hit.” “I was looking at around $732,000 every week.” “I tell young guys not to get caught up trying to copy lifestyles they see online.” “Commit to your craft.” “Once you commit to something and become elite at it, the compensation will come.”

Rob Gronkowski confirms he still hasn't really tapped into the $70,629,507 he made in the NFL. As a rookie, he figured out that if he lived off endorsements and played for 4 years, he would never need to work another day in his life. “Then things kept growing.” LEONARD FOURNETTE: “So, is it true you still haven’t spent a dime of your NFL money?” GRONK: “I was a second-round pick. It was $4 million. Like, 3.5 was guaranteed. And I was like, so if I play those four and that’s all I have, I can put 2 million in my bank. And I was like, ‘I’m good.’ I thought just renting an apartment was great.” “I got brought up as more of a frugal guy, frugal family. I was using my brother’s equipment. They would hand it down to me. So it wasn’t like I had anything new growing up. So I didn’t even know what new was.” “So if I save my money and live off a couple of the endorsements, doing the cards, little appearance over there, I never have to work at 24 years old if I just play four years in the league.” “So I had that mindset, and then things just kept growing. So then I never tapped into my NFL money, really. If you look at it, I still have my NFL money.” [Jarvis Landry and Leonard Fournette listen in awe and congratulate him]

NFL legend Marshawn Lynch reveals that he didn’t touch any of his NFL checks during his 13-season career despite making around $60M and only lived off sponsor money 👀💰 “on my off days I’d go work with these brands and get a bag, bring in a couple 100 bands and I could just eat off that and not worry bout my game check”

Gilbert Arenas says he was miserable after retiring from the NBA despite being worth $100,000,000 “Miserable. Because any athlete from the ages of six, seven years old all we knew was one thing. Hoop. Wake up, ball, sleep. Wake up, ball, sleep. Wake up, ball, eat. That was it” “So when I'm done and say, ‘Alright Gilbert, have fun. Enjoy life.’ Alright cool. The week goes by, the summer goes by, and then what ends up happening to every athlete, the season changes” “I can smell when the season's starting. Getting a little colder, that September smell is coming. What ends up happening is my body naturally goes into get-ready-for-the-season mode. Well, unfortunately there's no fucking season” “So what I did when I first retired, I had to try to figure out how to be busy between nine o'clock and twelve. Then it's lunch time. Then I go to sleep. Then about five o'clock to eight, be busy again” “So when basketball season starts, it's nerve wracking for players who are retired”

Chad Ochocinco says time is free, so why buy a $70,000 watch “I’m always preaching about being cheap with the jewelry and the watches. Everything was always replica. Nothing was ever real” “There’s no point because the women have already done their Googles. There’s really no need, and there’s nobody to impress” “Like Hard Knocks, where I got my earrings from Claire’s with a black card. The whole message was, I’m still rich. I’m still me. I don’t really need it” “Watches. $50,000, $60,000, $70,000. What time is it? How much that cost? Time is free. So why am I paying for it? What’s the point?” “I got to a point in my career, money wise, I was trying to think of something that I could buy that was bigger than my name alone. Wasn’t nothing”