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Saved by Grace.

[JWT @JasonWTucker]

@Freedom250 Jefferson Memorial - was told no by law enforcement

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Rumors swirling that the EU commission will fine X hundreds of millions of dollars for not engaging in censorship. The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage.

[Mike Winger @MikeWingerii]

He was right

[Chadd Wright @3_of_7project]

The physical work is what allows you to become mentally resilient.
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[JWT @JasonWTucker]

@FB_Helmet_Guy Giants era Otis Anderson

[JWT @JasonWTucker]

@ATRightMovies 1-Hamill
2-Ledger
3-Nicholson
4-Romero

The rest are not worth mentioning

[NFL Memes @NFLMemes]

NFL: “The Pro Bowl will now feature a casual game of flag football”

NBA: “Please guys, can we at least just make it look like we’re trying to play defense”

NHL: “WE WILL LEAVE THE EXHIBITION BROKEN AND BLOODY”

[Eric Cressey @EricCressey]

If teenage athletes want to take a big step forward in development, it's wise to try to “out-sleep” and “out-eat” their peers. These two things are powerful "magnifiers" of everything they do in skill development and strength and conditioning.

[OBU Football @OBU_Football]

#RootsRunDeep25

[JWT @JasonWTucker]

Happy New Year from the Tuckers.

[JWT @JasonWTucker]

@NFL_DovKleiman Reset all rules to 1990 rules.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Absolutely

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

ALIENS was released 38 years ago this week. Acclaimed as one of the great action movies and best sequels ever made, the making of story is like being on an express elevator to hell… going down…

1/51

[JWT @JasonWTucker]

@ATRightMovies Not the greatest, but probably an underrated opening scene.

[JWT @JasonWTucker]

@ATRightMovies

[JWT @JasonWTucker]

"We have over protected our kids in the real world, and under protected them online."
-Jonathan Haidt

[JWT @JasonWTucker]

Pretty good sermon!
Romans 14

https://t.co/8V6zQ1TcvZ

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

James Cameron has written & directed 3 of the top 4 highest-grossing movies of all time (Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water, and Titanic).

Before he made movies, Cameron was a truck driver.

He didn't go to film school.

Instead, on the weekends, he would go to the library and..

"I'd pull any thesis that [University of Southern California] graduate students had written [on] anything that related to film technology," Cameron explained.

"And for the cost of xeroxing (photocopying), I [got] all these doctoral dissertations [and] build up these big binders on how everything was done."

"So I literally gave myself a full graduate course on film technology for about $120.

I didn’t have to enroll in school because it was all there in the library. I’d set it up to go in like I was on a tactical mission, find out what I needed to know, and take it all home."

Takeaway 1:

When asked what motivated him to read those big binders full of information on filmmaking, Cameron said he was just following what excited him.

"People seek out the information and knowledge they need," he said. "It's like a divining rod."

The mythologist Joseph Campbell similarly talked about how reading is like "a divining rod," a way to find what you are uniquely attracted to and meant to do.

"You’ve got to read," Campbell said. "Find [what] excites you. And if it doesn’t excite you…It’s not yours.”

Takeaway 2:

Of course, at some point, Cameron had to put the binders down and pick up a camera.

When he eventually attempted to make his first movie, Cameron said, “It was a bit like a doctor doing his first appendectomy after having only read about it."

The bestselling author and learning expert, Scott Young, has a great article with a great title, "Do The Real Thing."

"When you examine case studies of people who have had major accomplishments," Scott writes, "you expect there to be some trick or shortcut...More often, however, the strategy used is dead simple: doing the real thing."

Takeaway 3:

Leonardo da Vinci used to sign off his letters, “Leonardo da Vinci, disscepolo della sperientia” ("disciple of experience").

He used to believe that one learns best by solely "doing the real thing."

Over time, however, he evolved out of this belief and, biographer Walter Isaacson writes, "became a disciple of both experience and received wisdom."

When you examine case studies of people who have mastered their craft, you usually find they are "disciples of both experience and received wisdom."

Like Cameron, they read the library and they do the real thing.

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“Those who are in love with practice without theoretical knowledge are like the sailor who goes onto a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whither he is going.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Extremely destructive if accurate