An American Capitalist, Wall Street Vet of 40yrs living 'n working, working ‘n living ... Lucky in Life, ok - Carer of People, for sure - an Ohio New Englander
Roger Federer broke the internet with one statistic that will change how you see every setback in your life.
1,526 singles matches.
Won almost 80% of them.
20 Grand Slams. 103 titles.
Now answer honestly:
What percentage of total points do you think he won across his entire career?
70%? 65%? 60%?
Try … 54%.
He lost literally almost EVERY SECOND POINT he ever played for 24 years.
And still became one of the greatest of all time.
Watch him explain it himself (2:07 of pure life-changing wisdom):
“In tennis, perfection is impossible… When you lose every second point on average, you teach yourself to say:
‘Okay, I double-faulted — it’s only one point.’
‘Okay I got passed at the net — it’s only one point.’
Even a screaming overhead smash that ends up on SportsCenter Top 10… still just one point.
So when you’re playing your point, it has to be the most important thing in the world.
The moment it’s over — it’s behind you.
That mindset frees you to attack the next point, and the next, and the next with absolute intensity and clarity.”
Then he looked at the crowd and said the line that hit a billion people in the soul:
“The real sign of a champion is not that they win every point.
It’s that they lose again and again and again… and have learned how to deal with it.
Negative energy is wasted energy.
Cry it out if you have to. Then force a smile.
Move on. Be relentless. Adapt. Grow.
Work harder — and work smarter.”
Save this post.
The next time you lose a deal, bomb a presentation, get ghosted, miss a deadline, or just have “one of those days” — come back here and read it again.
You’re not falling behind.
You’re just in the 46%.
And the 46% is exactly where every single legend has spent most of their career.
Keep playing the next point.
(full 2:07 clip — sound on)
Michael Saylor gives his updated Bitcoin price predictions
• $150,000 by end of this year
• $1,000,000 over next 4-8 years
• $20,000,000 over next 20 years
After a record 25 consecutive months of negative real wage growth, wages have now outpaced reported inflation on a YoY basis for 29 straight months. This is a great sign for the American worker that hopefully continues.
Video: https://t.co/sh4BXV5nsO
Fuck. Basketball Bucks lose to Pitt on a 3 at the buzzer the night before The Game just like last year. Would be lying if I said this doesn’t seem like a bad sign.
Saylor: "We sold $1.5B of stock backed by $500M of BTC. We bought back $1.5B of Bitcoin, capturing a Billion dollar gain in the arbitrage."
Softbank: 🤯🤯🤯 This is the best business model in the world. we need to copy this immediately.
US data center construction plans are soaring:
Data center capacity that is built, under construction, or in planning hit a record ~80 gigawatts in 2025.
To put this into perspective, this much capacity could theoretically power up to 60 MILLION homes.
Capacity has more than DOUBLED over the last year and is now 8 times higher than it was in 2022.
This comes as planned projects make up ~65 gigawatts of the total, an all-time high.
AI expansion will soon be ALL about energy.
Did you know that you can still call Coach Woody Hayes's original phone number and listen to a hype speech? Listen up as Ryan tells us HOW this is possible.