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[Brooke LeBlanc @brookeleblanc]

Get up and move!

[Sonofthanos @_sonofthanos]

@brookeleblanc Yeah, yeah, I’m hoping on my bike now.

[Sonofthanos @_sonofthanos]

@AmyTherapy2021 Attention is still a currency, that feeds the ego.

[AmyTherapy2026 @AmyTherapy2021]

You are your Best Fan, if you lose confidence in yourself then you lose your Excitement. Be Strong, don’t listen to those that bring you down. Find uplifting ones to increase your Excitement about You so you can continue to be your Biggest Fan!!

[Sonofthanos @_sonofthanos]

@AmyTherapy2021 Thank you for the reminder.

[AmyTherapy2026 @AmyTherapy2021]

Be Positive
Be Happy
Be Optimistic
Be Social
Be Together
Be Tough
Be Courageous
Be Careful
Be Amazing
Be Strong
Be Yourself

Don’t BE like they want you to be, Just BE You!!!

[Sonofthanos @_sonofthanos]

@AmyTherapy2021 @IamqueenAlisha Goodness, I hope this is AI.

[Sonofthanos @_sonofthanos]

@AmyTherapy2021 @Collin650962 Agreed. Don’t get started. Put time, effort, money into improving yourself (conversation skills, wardrobe, health) to find a woman, better paying job etc.

[Sonofthanos @_sonofthanos]

@The_Stella_Sol 👏🔥

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

PROOF THAT MAGA IS A CULT🚨

[Umi @umikathryn]

We’ve been sold a version of financial freedom that looks like a man on a yacht doing nothing. Passive income, laptop on the beach, the aesthetic of idleness repackaged as aspiration. As if the whole point of building wealth is to eventually stop doing anything at all.

But the people I know who’ve actually achieved it describe something entirely different. It’s not the freedom to buy anything. It’s the freedom to not calculate before you’re generous. It’s buying the entire box of chocolate from the Boy Scout standing outside the gas station, not because you need twelve boxes of chocolate, but because you remember being the kid holding the box, and you can feel how long he’s been standing there, and you have the ability, right now, to make his afternoon. And that ability costs you nothing emotionally. No mental math. No checking the account first. Just yes.

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[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Michael Jordan: "To win, you got to lose. To be happy, you got to have disappointment."

"I really don't have regrets. As soon as you look back in your history and you come up with something you feel like you want to change, something else has to change."

On disappointment:

"To win, you got to lose. To be successful, you got to have something that's not successful. To be happy, you got to have disappointment. All of those things have evolved to make me who I am and understand the benefits and privileges I have for being who I am."

Jordan shares what his parents taught him:

"Don't wear your reputation. Don't wear your accolades. Don't wear your personality on your sleeve. Let it happen. Let it be you. It is who you are, don't hide from it. But don't rub it in people's faces."

On being voted the greatest athlete:

"It's ironic that I'm the youngest of the three. It's all relevant based on who is watching now. If you ask 20 years from now, I'm pretty sure LeBron may beat me based on who's going to be making the voting. I say that to understand: it is what it is. I don't wear it. I don't showcase it. Someone else's opinion. As an athlete, all you want to do is be the best athlete you can be."

Jordan reflects on his father:

"I had him for 32 years. Obviously, he was murdered. Rarely do I get the chance to talk about him. But the thing I remember, I think about him practically every day. For a person like myself, who lives in the spotlight and is so critical from people all the time, what I do, what I say, where I go, the thing he always said: 'Take a pause before you make a decision. And say: what if.'"

He explains the purpose:

"Whatever decision you make is always going to have consequences, pros and cons. If you think about the consequences, you make the right decisions. Now, all the decisions I made, other people may view them as not the right decisions from their perspective."

Jordan addresses his "failed" baseball career:

"Everybody says it was a failed opportunity to play baseball. That's what they think. For me, it was the best thing that could have happened. It allowed me to go back to the game with stronger passion. At the same time, I was able to understand the love these minor league baseball players have, making $1,500 a month. Which is nothing. But for them, it was big."

He continues:

"To see that helped me put things in perspective to understand the platform I was on in '93. When I went back to it in '95 and '96, I appreciated it even greater. When we won those championships, those things mattered to me far greater than what I did in '91, '92, '93. People don't see that. People will never understand that."

Jordan shares the deeper lesson:

"All they think about is, well, he batted .202, he struck out a certain number of times. Yeah, okay. But the effort was there. The learning curve and the passion was there. That has transcended not just to me, but to other people who are afraid to do things because they're worried about the perception from other places. To me, that's more gratifying than anything. That's what my father and mother instilled in me: take a negative and turn it into a positive. Don't be afraid to fail."

On his mother's constant reminder:

"My mother calls me practically every day. The last words are always: 'Keep your nose clean.' That's her constant reminder: people are watching, people are learning, people are paying attention."

On why he stepped back from the spotlight:

"I want my life to be my life. My time in the spotlight is dwindling, and I want to be able to control what I do and what I don't want to do. I need no more admiration. I've had enough. And it's been great."

Jordan shares what retirement means to him:

"Sometimes I surprise myself saying, 'I got nothing to do today. I got nothing to do tomorrow. I got nothing to do on Wednesday.' That's ultimately retirement. That's where I want to be. Not worrying about what I have to do tomorrow while I'm living in the moment right now."

[Sonofthanos @_sonofthanos]

@AmyTherapy2021 I hate the dentist. Especially if they do the periodontal check. (Stop poking my gums counting numbers)

[Adam B. Coleman, Proud Father & Imperfect Man @wrong_speak]

@CollinRugg You can get caught with guns, drugs, and beating your spouse and your NBA team will still find a way to keep you on the roster.

If act like a clear minded Christian, speaking biblical truth, they will cut you. The NBA is a terrible product and demonic

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

@realpeteyb123 The NBA promotes degeneracy and then axes Christians who call it out.

Gross.

[Sonofthanos @_sonofthanos]

@folaoftech This is so true. Once I inherited this “thing,” I worked so much overtime. And the usb ports are trash.

[Apotheosis of John @ApotheosisJohn]

Kobe’s words are pure wisdom. This isn’t just about basketball, it’s a universal standard for how to live.

Most people operate inside a false frame: win vs. lose, success vs. failure. But both are rooted in the same thing, attachment to outcome. And where there is attachment, there is fear. Fear of losing, fear of judgment, fear of not being enough.

Kobe steps outside of that entirely.

“I play to learn.”

That’s the shift. He removes outcome as the center and replaces it with alignment to a higher standard, his own refinement, his own perfection.

And at the deepest level, that’s what this really is:

You’re not playing for applause.
You’re not playing to avoid failure.
You’re playing for the God within you, the highest standard of who you’re capable of becoming.

That changes everything.

Confidence depends on outcome.
Bravery acts regardless of it.

When you’re anchored in that inner standard, fear has nothing to grab onto. There’s no image to protect, no external validation to chase. There is only the work.

Practically, it looks like this:
You show up.
You execute.
You assess honestly.
You correct.
You repeat.

No excuses. No ego. No collapse.

Failure only exists when you stop learning, stop refining, or betray your own standard. Everything else is feedback.

That’s the universal principle Kobe is pointing to:

Not victory over others, but alignment with the highest within you.

[Xiaoyin Qu @quxiaoyin]

I have kids. I work in AI every day. And honestly? I have no idea what their careers will look like in 15 years. But I know what will carry them through.

First, and this might sound unromantic: make money and save it for them. We can debate educational philosophy all day, but the world is changing so fast that financial security might be the most practical gift we can give. Buy some gold bars. Seriously.

Second, nurture their imagination. AI rewards people with initiative and wild ideas. The kid who daydreams, who asks weird questions, who wants to try ten things at once? That kid will thrive. AI can execute. AI can be disciplined. What AI can't do is dream up something nobody's thought of before.

Third, build resilience. There are no more iron rice bowls (guaranteed lifetime jobs). Any stable, predictable job is exactly the kind of job AI will learn to replace. Our kids will likely switch directions many times in their lives. Learn something new, get replaced, pivot, repeat. It's more like being a hunter than a farmer. Schools don't teach this. Schools teach you to follow a linear path: high school, college, grad school, stable job. That linear path is becoming the most dangerous one.

Last, invest in their ability to connect with other humans. Not networking. Not schmoozing. Real emotional connection. Building trust, offering support, making people feel seen. As AI handles more of the rational, analytical work, the human ability to genuinely relate to other humans becomes more rare and more valuable.

I don't have all the answers. But I know that imagination, resilience, and genuine human warmth aren't going out of style anytime soon.

#AI #Parenting #Education #FutureOfWork