Via Sky, Southampton beat the following seasonal records today during a superb 1st half:
- Most shots in a Championship 1st half (17)
- Most shots on target in a Championship 1st half (10)
- Most possession in a Championship 1st half (70%)
- Most touches in the opponents box in a 1st half (43)
- Most xG in a Championship 1st half (2.96)
Dunno about you, but I’m still unsure about this Russell Martin bloke #SaintsFC
Shine your light. Your perception creates your reality. Turn obstacles into opportunities. Don’t cheat hard work in the mind and of the body.
Face challenges head on with a open mind knowing you’ve don’t hard things before and you’ll do them again.
Criticism is a privilege. To avoid it, stay mediocre, be a nobody, conceal your creativity & hide your personality. But remember, a life ruled by fear is unfulfilling. Progress demands courage, so be brave, embrace ridicule & remain kind. Stand on your beliefs & stand on business
My favorite Charlie Munger story:
In 1953, Munger was 29 years old.
Recently divorced. Lost the house. Huge social stigma of divorce back then.
His 8-year-old son, Teddy, was diagnosed with cancer.
The leukemia was incurable.
No medical insurance - Munger paid for all his medical care.
Charlie would visit Teddy in the hospital every day -- and then walk the streets crying.
Teddy died at the age of 9.
Charlie was broke, divorced and just lost his child.
99.9% of people would've turned to alcohol, drugs, or suicide. (And you'd understand why)
Munger never did.
Fast forward to 52 years old, a failed surgery left him blind in one eye with the potential of going fully blind one day.
Charlie was an obsessive learner who read every book he could get his hands on.
When confronted with the possibility of going blind and no longer being able to read he said:
"It's time for me to learn braille!"
The only thing that might be more impressive than his intellect was his actions.
RIP.
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Munger on Self-Pity:
"Generally speaking, envy, resentment, revenge, and self-pity are disastrous modes of thought.
Self-pity gets pretty close to paranoia…
Every time you find your drifting into self-pity, I don’t care what the cause, your child could be dying from cancer, self-pity is not going to improve the situation. It’s a ridiculous way to behave.
Life will have terrible blows, horrible blows, unfair blows, it doesn’t matter. Some people recover and others don’t.
There I think the attitude of Epictetus is the best. He thought that every mischance in life was an opportunity to behave well. Every mischance in life was an opportunity to learn something and that your duty was not to be immersed in self-pity, but to utilize the terrible blow in a constructive fashion. That is a very good idea."
A key learning recently has been keeping an eye out for volatile and exaggerating language. What is happening on the surface is largely different from the details.
Mostly individuals will use this to exert influence. Ask open ended questions to learn and not follow blindly.
Between SpaceX's Starship launch on Saturday and the movements at OpenAI. IF you ever needed an inkling that the trajectory for humanity is shifting, there you go.
We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and in continuing to support our customers and partners. We look forward to getting to know Emmett Shear and OAI's new leadership team and working with them. And we’re extremely excited to share the news that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, together with colleagues, will be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team. We look forward to moving quickly to provide them with the resources needed for their success.