My #Smackoff call. Much love to Vin Scully and Bruce @springsteen for taking the time to join me on this. And to all the people who helped make this happen including Chris Cram, the awesome conga drummer, Jimmy Benton, and engineer Mike Troolines.
https://t.co/bH1GKMD4TN
HOOP DREAMS was released 32 years ago today.
Originally planned as a 30-minute PBS special, Steve James’s documentary grew into a three-hour portrait of two Chicago teenagers chasing basketball dreams, filmed over five years and 250 hours of footage.
This kid’s talent level is INSANE.
Holy shit.
He’s playing both parts of one of the most challenging guitar parts of all time - Dire Straits’ “Sultans of Swing” - and making it look effortless 👀
Pretty cool, man.
Morten Harket cantando "Take on Me" cuarenta años después. El poso de la vida le ha dado profundidad y nostalgia, pero aún conserva esa fuerza que te hace vibrar al escucharla.
An apt day to remember that Dolly Parton once recorded a cover of Stairway to Heaven - and, in defiance of every moral law in the universe, she absolutely owned it.
Booking Tony Robbins today costs $1 million for a single day. this is a 21-minute tape from inside his own house, filmed over 30 years ago, where he breaks down exactly how to get anyone to say yes. same $1 million material. completely free.
this is a rare, unfiltered tape from decades before this man started charging billionaires just to be in the room with him.
people give you two excuses when they say no, he says. not enough time. not enough money. neither is true. the real reason is they don't believe it's worth it yet, and that's not a money problem, that's a state problem.
so he teaches something he calls attack and confess. instead of arguing with the objection, you confess your own. "I had a chance to go to this thing six months ago and I didn't go until two months ago," he tells the room. "I can't even imagine the time I lost." the room goes quiet. nobody argues back.
he calls it getting someone on the yes train. every small yes you get compounds into the next one, until saying no to the final ask feels harder than saying yes. by the time he asks someone to sign, he says, they've already agreed to it five times over without realizing it.
21 minutes. that's all it takes to walk away knowing the exact two moves people pay $1 million a day to learn: how to read anyone's state, and how to move it. most people spend years in sales guessing at this. he wrote it down on a flip chart in his living room in under half an hour.
a seat in that room cost $125 back then. today it's a $1 million-a-day to sit in front of him.
The tape is free right now, and the answer is in this video.
I haven’t laughed this hard in forever. Tears streaming down my cheeks with a belly laugh and maybe a ‘snort’ or two.
Can you imagine being told to do your best impression of something while the audience thinks you are doing something totally different?
I am so doing this with my kids. I know payback is hell, but it will be worth it. 😂
The WNBA posted a video of Angel Reese and Paige Bueckers betting $400 on which woman’s team would win. Then deleted it after realizing this violates league rules. This entire league is run by morons.