🗣️ Marc Cucurella:
“I’d never seen this side of Lionel Messi until this World Cup. We always spoke highly of him as someone who was respectful and humble, but this tournament completely changed my opinion of him.
When he reported me to the referee because I slightly touched my mouth, I was shocked. I never expected a player like him to do that.
Throughout the World Cup, I saw him telling referees to book players who tackled him. People call him humble, but I don’t see it that way. Watching everything that happened over the last two World Cups made me question the legacy he’s built.
Cristiano Ronaldo has always been honest about who he is, confident, outspoken, and never pretending to be someone else. I’d choose Ronaldo over Messi any day because I’ve played against both and know what they’re really like.”
La pereza mata las metas
La ira mata la sabiduría
El miedo mata los sueños
El ego mata el crecimiento
Los celos matan la paz
La duda mata la confianza
Ahora leélo al revés.
Kobe Bryant once said:
“Everyone wants to be a beast. Everyone wants to be the best. But very few people are willing to do what it actually takes. Because what it takes is boring. It is waking up at 4:00 AM. It is shooting the same shot a thousand times. It is watching the film when you are tired. People fall in love with the result, but they hate the process. You have to fall in love with the boredom. You have to fall in love with the repetition.
If you can find joy in the mundane work that no one else sees, the lights will eventually shine on you.”
The first trillionaire in human history
- Elon Musk
- Born in South Africa
- Bullied relentlessly as a kid
- Immigrated to North America
- Arrived with a backpack and a dream
- Built Zip2 with his brother
- Sold it 4 years later for $300 million
- Co-founded PayPal with the profits
- Revolutionised digital payments
- Sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion
- Bet everything on Tesla and SpaceX
- Got mocked for electric cars
- Got laughed at for reusable rockets
- Nearly went bankrupt in 2008
- Kept building anyway
- Turned Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker
- Made EVs mainstream and transformed the automotive industry
- Made reusable rockets a reality
- Reduced the cost of reaching space by 95%
- Sparked the modern commercial space race
- Built Starlink and connected millions around the world to high-speed internet
- Turned SpaceX into the most valuable private company in history
- Bought Twitter for $44 billion
- The world said he overpaid
- He was called reckless, stupid & crazy
- Advertisers fled, media declared it dead
- Critics called it the worst acquisition in tech history
- Renamed it 𝕏
- Rebuilt the platform anyway
- Turned it into one of the most influential platforms on Earth
- Launched xAI and accelerated the global AI race
- Sent astronauts to space
- Is trying to get humans to mars
- Created millions of jobs
- Generated hundreds of billions in value
- Inspired an entire generation of builders
Before:
- Failed repeatedly
- Worked insane hours
- Slept in factories and offices
- Got bullied, laughed at and mocked
- Constantly told “it’s impossible”
- Kept building anyway
- Made it possible
Today:
- Richest person on Earth
- First trillionaire in human history
- Largest IPO in history $1.77 trillion
Most people quit when the world laughs at them.
Elon Musk built the future instead.
Love him or hate him…
Nobody has changed more industries in a single lifetime.
Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI.
History won’t remember the people who said it couldn’t be done.
It will remember the people who did it anyway.
Congratulations Elon.
The first trillionaire. 🚀
A reminder from Atomic Habits by James Clear:
“It doesn't make sense to continue wanting something if you're not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don't want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment.”
The exact neurochemistry behind why you wake up completely paralyzed, and why it feels like a demon is sitting on your chest. 👇
• When you enter REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep, your motor cortex is highly active. Your brain is firing intense signals telling your body to run, fight or jump based on whatever you are dreaming about.
• If your body actually acted out those dreams, you would severely injure yourself in bed. So, to protect you, your brainstem (specifically the pons) flips a chemical kill-switch. It floods your spinal cord with inhibitory neurotransmitters, specifically GABA and Glycine.
• These chemicals temporarily paralyze almost all of your voluntary motor neurons. Your brain is vividly dreaming, but your physical body is on absolute lockdown in a state called REM atonia.
• Usually, this kill-switch turns off before your conscious mind wakes up. But sometimes, there is a physiological lag. Your conscious mind wakes up, but your brainstem forgets to shut off the chemical drip. You are wide awake, but your body is still completely paralyzed.
• Because you suddenly realize you can't move, your amygdala triggers an instant panic attack. That classic crushing weight on your chest happens because you are trying to take deep, panicked breaths, but your chest wall muscles are still chemically paralyzed. Only your diaphragm is working.
• To make matters worse, your brain is still hovering half-in and half-out of REM sleep. It takes your absolute terror and literally projects your nightmare into the physical room around you as a hallucination.
So no, you aren't having a stroke. FOLLOW ME for clinical breakdowns!