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On the 27th straight day of filming “Forrest Gump,” Tom Hanks was tired & worried.
During a scene on the famous park bench, Hanks stopped & said to director Bob Zemeckis,
“Hey, Bob…is anybody going to care about this movie? I don’t think anybody’s going to care.”
Bob replied,
“It’s a minefield, Tom. You never know what’s good…It’s a minefield! It’s a goddam minefield! We may be sowing the seeds of our own destruction.”
Tom Hanks told this story after he was asked, “When I ask for a memory from your career, what’s the first thing that comes to mind?”
He said that what Zemeckis said was true of every movie he’s worked on:
“There’s never any guarantee...You do not know if it is going to work out.”
Takeaway 1:
Hanks is the 5th-most highest-grossing actor of all time.
And yet, the stickiest memory of his career is the feeling of uncertainty.
Rarer than talent or work ethic, the poet John Keats wrote, is the ability to step into and push through doubts and uncertainties.
In 1817, Keats wrote a letter to his brothers to share this exciting realization.
“At once it struck me,” Keats wrote, “what quality went to form a Man of Achievement … Negative Capability.”
Keats explains that “Negative Capability” is “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”
Takeaway 2:
Those who possess Negative Capability, who can sit with uncertainty, who can spend months or years in the minefield that is working on something while knowing that there is a real possibility no one will care about it—they often possess another quality.
They do what they do, not as a means to some end (money, fame, awards, etc.), but for the sake of doing it.
When asked about one of his movies that commercially failed, Hanks said,
"I loved making that movie. I loved writing it, I loved being with it. I love all the people in it."
As Ryan Holiday once told me, "The work has to be the win."
You control the effort, he says, not the results.
"So ultimately, you have to love doing it. You have to get to a place where doing the work is the win and everything else is extra.”
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“Life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're going to get.” — Forrest Gump
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Let’s say you make $50,000 a year.
It costs you $950,000 per year, to not know how to make $1,000,000.
How much is that education worth?
Answer: the difference.
My son was bullied in school last year.
The ‘cool’ kids harassed him in the classroom. And wouldn’t let him play sports at recess.
We noticed how much he hated going to school every day. After months of being bullied he finally broke down and told me what was going on.
I was bullied as a kid too, so I knew how it felt. My heart was broken for the little guy. I took it seriously.
I sat in his bed until late that night giving him perspective and tools.
He went to school the next day armed for battle, but our plan backfired. He was crushed again. He wanted to give in. Maybe change classes. I told him not to give up.
We went back to the drawing board.
The day after he managed to turn it all around. He stood up for himself and showed the bullies he’s not to be messed with a respectful way.
He was invited to play! He ended up becoming one of the best players in the school. 💪
Fast forward…
Yesterday my son was playing soccer. And a boy tried to play. The kids wouldn’t let him in. A few years back they gave this boy a nasty nickname and he’s been sidelined ever since.
Yesterday on the court, my son also called him the mean nickname. He saw how much it hurt the boy.
He remembered his hurtful it was when we was bullied.
He came home from Synagogue and told me what happened. He felt terrible.
I told him the right thing to do was to call to say sorry. He didn’t want. He was to shy and embarrassed.
I called the boys father anyways. He told me that his son is having a rough year because of the bullying. My son heard every word.
His father passed the phone to his boy.
I put my son on the line.
“I’m sorry I called you that name. From now on I’ll make sure that nobody bothers you .” My son said.
The boy responded “thank you Menachem.”
My son said “can we be friends?”
I heard the boy chocking up and struggling to answer. Finally he said in a teary voice…
“Yes”.
Lesson learned, bullying is serious. We as parents have to be just as concerned about other kids feelings as we are about our own kids.
We have to turn our children into leaders and defenders instead of bystanders.
I subscribe to the hands on parenting method. How about you?
The latest Day 1 outlook from @NWSWPC highlights high risk of excessive rainfall across a large portion of the central Florida peninsula from #Ian.
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635 AM EDT 28 September -- Recent data from a @NOAA_HurrHunter aircraft indicate #Ian is rapidly intensifying & max sustained winds are now up to 155 mph.
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