Keep your problems smaller than your life. A flat tire is a flat tire. A bad meeting is a bad meeting. A canceled flight is just an extra two hours. These things become catastrophes when you let them. But they stay manageable when you remember the depth of your real life- the people you love, the work you care about, the beautiful years still ahead. Zoom out. Fit your reaction to the size of the problem.
Lou Williams reveals why NBA players wives/girlfriends leave them when they stop playing.
“How’re you going to keep her happy when your keep her happy button is to send her to the mall”
“You don’t really know the woman you married”
“If I’m playing for the clippers, she might move with me but I’m on the road for 3 - 4 nights a week and only got to deal with her for 2 nights a week”
“You know how we keep them happy? We send them to the mall and that’s why they’d say they understand and be like ‘I’d stay home with the kids’”
“Because she can shop in peace and you’re on the road doing what you’re doing”
“And then when you retire, you got to deal with this 24/7 and play house”
Mark Zuckerberg reveals he's feeding his cows beer and macadamia nuts
“On the ranch, one of my projects is I'm trying to create the highest quality beef in the world”
“It's very low stakes, I’m not selling it but I'm very into the genetics of the cattle. We're trying to figure out how do you make it so that you basically can deliver the highest density diet to them”
“We started growing macadamia trees because that kind of nut is extremely dense and they will eat a lot so they will put on weight and become fat quicker and become delicious”
“The macadamia nuts have a lot of oil so you need to actually roast that. So now we need to design this whole process to roast the nuts so that way you can give them to the cows”
“You want them to eat more. So then it's like how do you get them to eat more? Well it turns out alcohol is great for that because alcohol induces appetite”
“That's actually why very high-end beef, they're fed beer. But okay, what's the right balance of beer versus water? I don't know. Let's let them choose. They get either as much cold beer as they want or as much room temperature water”
“So now we're brewing all this beer and we're putting it out”
Cam Newton says the real wealth in the NFL wasn’t his signing bonus, it was seeing massive paychecks hit his account every week.
“My rookie contract was worth $22 million guaranteed, and at 20 years old that felt like more money than I could imagine.”
“After taxes, a $6 million signing bonus looks a lot different than people think.”
“It wasn’t the signing bonus that got me excited.”
“It was logging into my account every Tuesday and seeing that green number hit.”
“I was looking at around $732,000 every week.”
“I tell young guys not to get caught up trying to copy lifestyles they see online.”
“Commit to your craft.”
“Once you commit to something and become elite at it, the compensation will come.”