Dan Goldman is living proof that no matter how deranged you act, how much you center your political identity around going after the Orange Man, or how many histrionic meltdowns you have during committee hearings, your time in the modern Democrat party starts ticking down fast when you’re a white Jewish guy who refuses to put on the Hamas headband and apologize for being the wealthy heir of a capitalist family.
@StephenFWDailey@JimTressel5 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Only 3 SP in MLB history have achieved the following in the first 18 starts of their career:
ERA below 2.50
More than 100 K’s
Fewer than 30 Walks
Paul Skenes. Stephen Strasburg. Parker Messick. 🤯
Bill Maher: “Oh, big week for Kings. A weird week for Kings because King Charles of England was here. Spoke to Congress. Got a standing ovation from the people who were used to be at the ‘No Kings’ rallies.”
Remember that time when Ohio State beat Michigan in Ann Arbor 27- 9 in a game in which UM didn't score a tuddy or a single point in the second half, one of the UM players head-butted a ref, Gus Johnson was sad when Davison Igbinosun intercepted Bryce Underwood to end the game, and then after their loss UM guarded the M logo from no one, and later UM's shaddy athletic director used an affair he already knew his coach was having with a subordinate as an excuse to fire him, and then that coach went nuts and invaded his mistress's home and threatened to kill her and himself?
I remember.
Alabama is the only program in Ohio State's league.
But OSU still gets the edge.
In the last 25 years:
Each school has seasons of 7-5 and 6-7.
If we cancel those out, their worst seasons are:
ALABAMA
3-8
4-9
6-6
7-6
20-29 (.408)
OHIO STATE
8-4
8-4
10-3
10-2
36-13 (.735)
When both programs are at their worst, Ohio State wins 32.7% more than Alabama.
Ohio State has won 3 national championships with 3 different coaches.
Alabama has won 6 national championships with 1 coach.
3 coaches winning titles is a testament to the Ohio State program.
1 coach winning titles is a testament to Nick Saban.
Ohio State has the best program in America. Only 1 program is close, and it’s a free-fall from Everest to whatever tier is below them.
Jordan Peterson: "You're underestimating how much you can improve"
"If the gap between you and your ideal is so great that it paralyzes you, you've created a dragon you don't have the tools to master. So you have to scale the dragon down to size. You want to scale it down until it's a size you're willing to move toward, however small that is."
Jordan explains the math behind growth:
"There's a gospel principle called the Matthew Principle: to those who have everything, more will be given. It implies that reality works like this: when you're moving up, it's exponential. When you're going down, it's downhill, then cliff. So it doesn't matter how small your first steps are, even if they're shameful in their size. Because if you're disciplined, you'll speed up extraordinarily rapidly. The ball doesn't roll in a linear fashion. It rolls in a geometric fashion."
He shares his own story:
"When I first started going to the gym, I was 23. I weighed 135 pounds at 6'1". Very thin. I smoked like mad, drank too much. I wasn't in good shape. I went to this swim class, it was me, a really overweight young guy, and seven women over 70. They could outswim me. It was pretty damn humiliating."
Jordan continues:
"Then I started lifting weights. I'd be underneath the bench press trying to lift 75 pounds, and some muscle-headed bastard would come over and tell me how to do it. It's embarrassing. Lots of people won't go to the gym because they're embarrassed about how they look. But you start at the bottom where you're weak. If you want to rectify what's weak, you have to accept that the first steps are going to be painful."
The result:
"It took me about 3 years, but I stopped smoking, stopped drinking, and gained 40 pounds of muscle. I got a lot more physically confident. A lot more coordinated. Then I could dance, so that was better when I was going out in graduate school."
He explains why self-reflection matters:
"If your plans didn't work out, sit down and say: 'Even if the world was conspiring against me and my failure was 95% the fault of external circumstances, what did I do that wasn't as good as it could have been? Where did I fail to look?' To ask that question, you have to want the answer. That's what it means to knock, to ask, to seek. You have to want to know."
Jordan concludes:
"One of the reasons you confess your sins is because you want to discover where you're insufficient. It's painful, but the advantage is you can rectify the error. And then as you move forward, you're stronger."