the beauty of crypto is that once you’ve been here long enough, you’ve completely fried your brain and alienated yourself from any normal path so you kinda gotta make it work or you’re fucked
Matthew McConaughey reveals the three words his dad said that changed his life
“I said dad, I don't want to go to law school anymore. I want to go to film school and after about a 5 second pause, he goes, ‘Are you sure that's what you want to do?’ I reply yes sir”
“Another long pause. Then I hear, ‘Well, don't halfass it’”
“I remember just beaming, hopping up just like Yes! My dad not only said okay. The way he said don't halfass it, it was also, okay. Let's go big boy. Own that shit. Get some leverage. Get some horsepower behind where you're going. Go do it”
“I remember to this day and I've learned this later I think from becoming a father, part of what I believe happened to him and why he said that to me that way on that call was the way that I asked him. I wasn't really asking. It was, ‘I don't want to go to law school, Dad. I want to go to film school.’ I didn't stutter. He heard his son saying this is what I want to do”
“What I think happened to him in that moment is what I think any father, any parent loves. You raise your kids in a certain way and you give them a guideline, a ladder to climb and here's the guidelines and if you do it this way, you're most likely going to have some success in life and it'll work out for you and then when we do it that way, we can be proud parents”
“But what do we really want to happen when our kids are out of the house and they're on their own? We kind of want them to call one day and go, ‘I'm breaking out. I'm going my own way.’ And as a parent, we go, as much as it may scare us, we're going, ‘Yes!’ I gave my kid the confidence and the courage and the foundation to say they're going to go their own way”
“In a way, I think every parent honors and loves that moment. I heard my dad, when he didn't hear me stutter, when he heard me directly say what I said. I wasn't really asking him. Even though I was out of respect asking him, the way I said it, I wasn't asking him and I think he felt that”
“Don't halfass it”
Matthew McConaughey shares the best breakup advice his mom ever gave him
“I remember breakups, heartbroken. She'd let us mourn. She was a great ear, very sensitive ear to pains like that, broken hearts”
“But only for a day. After a day, she'd crank up the AC/DC man and go like, ‘Now, get up. You're worth it. Her loss. Come on. Get out of bed’”
“Quit moping. Lift your head up. Come on buddy. We got this. Her loss”
“She’d give you the day. No more than that”
Some dude and I started trading at the same time.
Yesterday, he sent me a message:
''Bro, that's it, I quit trading.''
''I've lost too much money, can't afford it anymore.''
''I need to get my life back on track, I'm a complete loser.''
Damn.
There's no mercy in this game.
“Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married or own a house; as if life was some kind of grocery list. But nobody ever asks if you are happy”
— Heath Ledger