Real Madrid waited long enough for Vinicius to be at the required level to compete for them.
Real Madrid stood tall and fought against racism of all kinds for Vinicius.
Real Madrid boycotted the Ballon Do’r for two years because of Vinicius.
Real Madrid sacked a potential world class manager to make Vinicius happy.
Real Madrid made Vinicius a superstar although his national team statistics says otherwise.
In the end Vinicius paid them back with stalling a contract renewal because he wants a salary of Cristiano Ronaldo, the Greatest player in the history of the club who won 4 Ballon Do’rs and 4 UCLs with the club. Also scoring over 400 goals in 9 years whereas you have less than 150 goals heading into your 9th season with the club, A kind disrespect no club will ever tolerate.
But Yes “Real Madrid is ungrateful” 👍🏾
Be delusionally optimistic about your future. You mind will try to stop you. Give you all kinds of reasons why you will fail. It's not the truth. It's fear. Fear of uncertainty. Do not fight it. Just ignore it. Believe that anything is possible. Your belief is the spark that keeps you moving forward.
Your entire life will change when you learn to love what most people avoid. Wake up early. Focus. Move your body. Eat real foods. Obsess over one thing. Read old books. Be present. Listen intently. Change your mind. Have difficult conversations. The recipe for a good life.
As a business owner, don't become so obsessed with marketing that you neglect distribution and execution.
Ask yourself today:
- How easy is it for customers to find and buy my product?
- Do you know and track every customer, retailer, or channel that sells your product?
- What new channels can you add to your distribution?
- How often are you out of stock where it matters?
- Are you building a route to market that's difficult for competitors to replicate?
It's not the company with the best product that always win, but the one that consistently gets its product into customers' hands.
Let me say this to us again, because I just saw a comment about class, once again from Nigerians who seem obsessed with it.
The "rules" of polite society are not (necessarily) an attempt to signal sophistication or snobbery. They are designed to codify proper social graces so that social interactions are smooth and there's little room for awkwardness or offending someone mistakenly.
Knowing them does signal status or sophistication but that's a by product.
To give you an example, if someone at your table starts eating with the wrong fork, the right thing to do is not to correct them in front of everybody. That is crass and embarrassing.
The right thing is to actually join them, use the same fork and diffuse the awkwardness with everyone else by saying "it looks like the salad fork actually helps you watch your portions better." Most people will get the hint, laugh it off and some will join others won't but no one feels awkward.
Later, privately you can correct the person as politely as you can without making it awkward. They'll be grateful for it.
If you think your sophistication is a way to embarrass or put people down, you're very crass, uncultured and uncouth.
Which apparently many of you are.
You know what I respect most about Olise? Even with his insane individual talent, he has the humility and football IQ to accept being the Robin because it benefits the team.
A lot of elite players' egos are too big for that. Olise understands the collective always comes first
I don’t know why people forget I am still a surgeon, since I got the NDC House of Representative ticket for Surulere 1. People call me Honorable and have removed the surgeon from my name, anyway Saturday I had endoscopic sinus surgery by 7am and by evening I became a politician
“If you haven't read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren't broad enough to sustain you.”
— James N. Mattis
Life advice nobody told you: Fear feeds on inaction. The longer you wait to act, the stronger your fear becomes. When you take action, you starve fear of the oxygen it needs to survive. The answer is found in the action.
If and when that happens, remember that you've built before.
It will take humility and you may have to start again from a place you thought you had left behind years ago. There’s nothing to be ashamed of.
In all, don't let the thing that breaks be you
Build again.
Had breakfast with some Haitians this morning and they were shocked by how much I knew about Haiti lol.
We talked about Barbecue (Not the meat but the gang leader of Haiti lol), the civil war, the politics, the chaos etc and its interesting that I didn’t learn any of these from books, but from years of spending 4–5 hours on YouTube every weekend.
Shout out to YouTubers like Drew Binsky, Tayo Aina and co who really make us travel the world from our TV screens.
Clowns who watched Fayemi and El Rufai and other idiots answer questions on behalf of a sitted Tinubu at Chatham House are telling me how someone didnt answer questions well. I think you people are mad.