Mitchell Mason

LSU Swim ‘24

[LSU Swimming & Diving @LSUSwimDive]

4 NCAA A Cuts and 3 school records on the week! The Tigers were on 🔥 in Athens!

🔒 200-yard Freestyle Relay
🔒 400-yard Medley Relay
🔒 200-yard Medley Relay
🔒 400-yard Freestyle Relay

[LSU Swimming & Diving @LSUSwimDive]

A Round of Applause for Olympic Silver 👏

#OlympiansMadeHere | #GeauxTigers

[SEC Academics @SECAcademics]

.@LSUSwimDive's Mitch Mason is used to big competitions. 🏊‍♂️

But @LSUOursoCollege's pitch competition brought a new stage for the MediRail co-founder.

Read more ⬇️
https://t.co/4MOabFqeqD

@SEC x #ItJustMeansMore

[Mitchell Mason @MitchMason2020]

@kylesockwell @LSUSwimDive Unmatched

[LSU Swimming & Diving @LSUSwimDive]

The LSU family sends our condolences to the entire @Vol_SwimDive community 🧡🤍

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

In 1997, at the age of 27, Matt Damon won his first Academy Award for Best Screenplay (“Good Will Hunting”).

After Damon won the Oscar, he went home, sat down on his sofa, and looked at the award.

As he looked at it, he was suddenly overwhelmed by a heartbreaking thought:

“I remember very clearly looking at that award and thinking,

‘Imagine chasing that, not getting it, and then getting it finally in your 80s or your 90s with all of life behind you and realizing what an unbelievable waste of your life.’

It can't fill you up. If that's a hole that you have, that won't fill it.”

“My heart broke,” Damon said. “I imagined another one of me [not getting that award until I was] an old man, and going like, ‘oh my god, Where did my life go? What have I done?’ And then it's over.”

Takeaway 1:

Many rich and celebrated people talk about chasing money and recognition, getting it, and realizing that it didn't feel like they thought it would. That it didn't, as Damon said, fill the hole they had.

One of my favorite analogies for this pattern comes from Sam Hinkie.

Hinkie was asked about what he's learned from reading Robert Caro's books—about some very rich and famous people.

“I think of it like the Pacific Salmon,” Hinkie said. “They spend their whole life making this journey upstream to spawn in this one spot. And as soon as they do, they die. That's largely what Caro shows you.”

The outcome is always a tiny percentage of the total experience.

Matt Damon stood on that Oscars stage for eighty-one seconds. That’s 0.0000641% of the four years he spent working on Good Will Hunting. To let 0.0000641% of an experience determine one’s happiness or satisfaction, as Damon said, is an unbelievable waste of your life.

Takeaway 2:

If not things like money, awards, and celebrity, what should we strive for?

“When we were writing 'Good Will Hunting,'” Matt Damon said, “Ben [Affleck] and I always talked about just wanting to love it.

We would say, 'If it's just a tape on our mantel that no one ever watches, we want to love it.' We kind of stumbled into a very wise strategy, which is to try to get most of the rewards from the work itself.”

Since you control the process, the effort, the work more than the outcome, Ryan Holiday once told me,

“The work has to be the win. 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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“It's such a gift to be able to do something and to love it for the sake of it.” — Rodney Mullen

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[LSU Swimming & Diving @LSUSwimDive]

Good luck to the 4️⃣ Tigers competing at the U.S. World Trials in Indianapolis!

#GeauxTigers

[Kyle Sockwell @kylesockwell]

David Popovici melted down his World Championship gold medal from the 200 freestyle and turned them into golden ribbons that he gave to kids who beat childhood cancer…

This dude is cool as hell 🥶

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

Giannis didn’t like this reporter's question on if he thinks this season was a failure. https://t.co/M3hJ9Bo4GJ

[Teddy Mitrosilis @TMitrosilis]

Navy SEALs have a saying.

You may find it helpful.

When something sucks, they look at each other and say:

"FULL BENEFIT"

It’s an instant mindset shift.

• Hiking and it starts pouring rain?
• Driving and your car breaks down?
• Working on a project and lost a draft?

FULL BENEFIT.

***

LESSON: Adversity is an opportunity

The message is simple.

Every adversity is an opportunity.

• To grow
• To learn
• To evolve
• To get stronger
• To become better

These moments forge us if we let them.

The next time you're facing something hard, welcome it.

Work through the process.

Learn the lessons.

Reap the full benefit.

***
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[Lil Wayne WEEZY F @LilTunechi]

LFGeaux TIGERS!!!!!! Bayou Barbie baby!!!!

[Sickos Committee @SickosCommittee]

If anyone ever tells you that Jalen Hurts or whatever was the greatest Transfer Portal player of all time, don't forget about Maggie Mac Neil who was at Michigan, went to the Olympics, won some golds, hit the portal, went to LSU, then broke records.

[LSU Swimming & Diving @LSUSwimDive]

Men's 100-Yard Breaststroke | Mitch Mason swims a time of 52.22 and breaks his own school record that he broke originally in 2021!

#GeauxTigers

[New York Yankees @Yankees]

FINAL: Astros 3, Yankees 2.

[LSU Swimming & Diving @LSUSwimDive]

Tigers On Top

#GeauxTigers

[Houston Astros @astros]

WHO IS YORDADDY?

[Kyle Sockwell @kylesockwell]

Brooks Curry's 100 freestyle NCAA Championship ring is a work of art 🥶❄️

[Kobi Simmons @JordanKobi]

A Bottle of water can be .50 cents at a supermarket. $2 at the gym. $3 at the movies and $6 on a plane. Same water. Only thing that changed its value was the place..So the next time you feel your worth is nothing, maybe you’re at the wrong place💯

[LSU Swimming & Diving @LSUSwimDive]

Mark Your Calendars, former Tigers ‼️

📅 Nov. 4-5 (Alabama Meet)
🍿 Details to Come