God tests your resolve by giving you a strong intuition that something will be yours, with no external proof of it for a long time
In the tension between what you know and what the external world is showing you, you prove that your inner knowing is stronger than the materialistic fears, doubts, and logic of the lower self by continuing to sit in blind, faithful certainty
Peter Thiel on why you should never get hung up on failure:
“It’s not like you only get one chance in this life. You get many chances—so long as you keep trying.”
“When we started PayPal, the initial product was an infrared beaming device on PalmPilots for sending money.”
“It was voted one of the ten worst business ideas in 1999—a year where there were many bad ideas in technology.”
“If you get hung up on failure and think you don’t have another chance, that’s when you really don’t.”
Via @60Minutes
Players like Bellingham, Mbappe, Haaland are people who have been told all their lives that they can be the best in the world at what they do.
They believe it. They live it.
You see it in how they carry themselves. They know they are gifted and they are not shy about it.
I like the fact that they’re solid examples of how important parents are in football. We’ve had footballers purely made by systems but in those three cases, they were made by deliberate parenting decisions for their careers.
They could be struggling on the pitch but someone is driving it into their ears at home that they are elite and are better than others with reminders about how far they’ve come.
There’s something I just love about how much belief they have in themselves. Special mentality.