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Damon Hill reunited with his title-winning FW18 on the Goodwood Hill at #FOS 2026 and wasted no time in reaching the chequered flag. What a moment!
You have seen Teddy Roosevelt’s famous quote about the Man in the Arena. But have you really read it? Have you absorbed it?
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
Soak it in.
“…there is no effort without error or shortcoming.”
“…if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
My goal, this week and every week, is to keep you from becoming one of those cold and timid souls.
Sure, there might be less heartbreak, but there is also no joy in that life.
It’s a life that puts you on the sidelines.
You live in a constant state of mediocrity. Since a life without putting yourself into the arena doesn’t experience the lowest lows, it also cannot experience the highest highs. It’s a constant middle-ground, a life of “blah.”
It numbs you. It’s why people who never step into the arena themselves are always trying — and failing — to find joy in other people’s failures. They want to feel something, like they know the people in the arena do, but they aren’t willing to take the risk required to feel something real.
I don’t want any of you to live that middling, numb, mediocre life.
I want you to feel the highest highs. And for that, I need you to learn that you’ll also have to experience the lowest lows.
It might not seem fair that the same map can lead you to either brutal heartbreak or total greatness, but that’s life.
We saw it in the Super Bowl. Haters will call the Patriots losers.
But there are no real losers who play in the Super Bowl. I don’t mean that in the participation trophy sense, because I can’t stand the idea that everyone deserves a trophy. I mean that everybody who goes all out, who steps into that arena and gives everything, is a champion, even if they don’t deserve a trophy.
They have lived life fully, rejecting the numb mediocrity most people accept.
The only real losers are the ones who never leave the safety of the sidelines.
After these Olympics, Lindsey won’t go home with a medal. She will go home with the heart of a champion.
I hope she knows that she did a great public service for all of us.
She demonstrated that thriving means being comfortable on that razor’s edge of victory and defeat.
She reminded us that coming up short in a worthy cause beats becoming one of those cold and timid souls.
She showed us how to live, not just to exist. They don’t have a medal for that.
Life’s greatest wins live inside you.
My challenge to all of you this week comes in two parts, and one is easier than the other.
Let’s start with the easier one: don’t be a loser who hates from the sidelines. I have a feeling most of you can already check this one off, because this is the positive corner of the internet. But if you find yourself naysaying or enjoying other people’s failure, it’s the first sign that you are falling into that numb, cold, timid life. Stop it.
Now, the harder one. Take the risk. Put yourself out there. All of you have something you’ve shied away from, something where you thought about jumping into the arena but hesitated when you thought of the risk of failure. You might fail. But I promise you’ll find that even failure means a fuller life than the sidelines.
It’s time to start living.
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Soll München sich um Olympische Sommerspiele bewerben? Am Wochenende wird in der Landeshauptstadt über diese Frage abgestimmt. Das Ergebnis ist ein wegweisendes – für ganz Deutschland. Deshalb wäre ein Ja wichtig. Kommentar von @rehofmann#SZPlus https://t.co/c9S98FUqYv
Am 7. Oktober vor 2 Jahren wurde Israel von einem unvorstellbaren Albtraum heimgesucht. Über 1.200 Menschen, Frauen, Männer, Kinder, wurden von der Hamas abgeschlachtet. Sie wurden gejagt, misshandelt, vergewaltigt und ermordet. Nicht im Krieg. In ihren Betten. In ihren Häusern. Auf einem Musikfestival. Bis heute werden Geiseln in den Tunneln von Gaza gefangen gehalten. Gefoltert. Missbraucht. Vergessen von der Welt.
Und während sie leiden, marschieren in europäischen Städten Menschen, die diesen Terror feiern und ihn „Widerstand“ nennen. Wie konnten wir unseren moralischen Kompass so dermaßen verbiegen?
Kein Vergessen. Kein Vergeben. 🎗️
Dear Viktor,
I understand that there is an election campaign in your country, and that this time you are truly being challenged for power.
But we do not interfere in your election campaign, nor do we want to become part of it.
Sweden and the Swedish people have always been friends of Hungary and the Hungarian people, as you know. We were friends of Hungary before your government, during your government, and we will remain so after your government.
We remember when Hitler’s genocide of Jews struck Hungary, and how Sweden in 1944 sent diplomat Raoul Wallenberg on a special mission to Budapest, to save as many Hungarian lives as possible.
Tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews survived because we provided them with provisional protective passports and citizenship here in Sweden. When the Soviet Union later invaded Hungary, Raoul Wallenberg was forcibly taken to Moscow and disappeared.
The Swedish diplomat died, but tens of thousands of Hungarian lives were saved. We would do it again.
We also remember when the Soviet Union brutally crushed your Hungarian struggle for democracy and freedom in 1956, and when Prime Minister Imre Nagy was later executed for his efforts to democratize the country.
When Russian tanks crushed the Hungarian freedom struggle, the Hungarian people pleaded with the UN and all Western powers for help. Almost no one listened.
But one country that showed deep solidarity with you was Sweden.
We opened our arms to your freedom fighters and dissidents. We allowed you to build exile opposition against Soviet communism here, despite our non-alignment. It was not without risk for us. But we did it anyway—because it was the right thing to do.
Today, over 40,000 people of Hungarian descent live in Sweden, many of whom are descendants of the Hungarian refugees who came here in connection with the 1956 uprising. They are a well-integrated immigrant group in our Swedish society.
Democratic states help each other, then and now. And they stand up against countries that try to oppress others.
That is why, just as in 1944 and 1956, we support democratic countries that Russian tanks try to overrun. Back then, it was about Hungary; today, it is about Ukraine. And if we do not act, it could be about another country tomorrow.
This is also why we often express concern about the developments in Hungary in recent years. Hungary ultimately regained its freedom, but freedom must also be defended.
That is why we question when you go to have coffee with the leader of the same country that crushed your compatriots’ freedom struggle in 1956 and that today attacks your neighbour, Ukraine.
Hungary and the West are not strengthened by closing the door to their European friends or by attacking each other and the very things that distinguish us from barbarism — democracy and the rule of law.
Let me conclude with some wise words from yourself in 2007:
“As kind of a new generation of the West, our message to those younger than we is to stick to a Western type Hungary, not to let Hungary be derailed from its Western path, and to love that Hungary is a Western type country, which means that we believe in the free will of people and in the mutual responsibility towards each other that we take upon us, which are inseparable parts of Western culture.
The oil might come from the east, but freedom always comes from the west. And democracy cannot be directed from above, it can only grow from the hearts of people and in this way create a viable, Hungarian life.”
Finally, I wish to convey Sweden’s respect for the Hungarian people, and to wish your country a free, peaceful, and successful election.
Bayern ist Autoland und als CSU sagen wir JA zum Auto und JA zum Autostandort Deutschland! Heute öffnet eine der wichtigsten Automobilmessen der Welt seine Tore: die #IAA Mobility. #Mobilität ist Zukunft, denn das Auto verbindet Fortschritt, Freiheit und Digitalisierung. Wir setzen auf Anreize und #Innovation, statt auf ideologische #Verbotspolitik. Die #Automobilindustrie ist das Herz unserer Volkswirtschaft - ohne das Auto geht es nicht. Es bleibt die Zukunft unseres Industriestandorts. Deshalb brauchen wir eine klare Autostrategie mit Vernunft, technischem Realismus und Zukunftsorientierung.