Patrick Sweeney

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

https://t.co/7l7Jef99QZ

[Barstool Gambling @stoolgambling]

CHAMPIONSHIP SUNDAY IS HERE

[ZT @NY_EvilEmpire]

This goes hard 👀🔜

[roseanne 🥀 @HoodieFrazier]

This remains the most incredible inning of Yankees baseball I’ve watched in the last 10 years

[Jersey Jerry @Jerrythekid21]

New JJ track just dropped.

[Eric Hubbs @BarstoolHubbs]

Maybe my favorite tweet ever

[Gary Sheffield Jr. @GarysheffieldJr]

@BauerOutage If we all could head to our local casino and put 5 bucks on black to win 100, we all would play.

[Jon DiMuzio @jondimuz]

I have absolutely no idea what the hay is in the barn is supposed to mean but I know for a FACT that the hay is in the mf barn

[Mink Flow @currypistonn]

It’s hard to explain to someone that doesn’t really watch football how outrageously stupid this play from Gunner Olszewsky really is

This was on a kickoff…

[Justin Dolan @justdolan]

my toddlers and the dinner I just cooked

[Fuzzy @fuzzyfromyt]

JRAM AND TIM ANDERSON BOTH SQUARED UP WHAT IS GOING ON

[David Perell @david_perell]

You can see something 10,000 times on your phone, but never understand it until you see it in person for the first time.

That’s the lesson from the park bench scene in Good Will Hunting.

Matt Damon is the arrogant, book-smart intellectual who’s seen little but read everything. Robin Williams is the wise professor who rolls his eyes at Damon’s hubris. The stuff of life can only be fully absorbed through direct experience, he says.

This is one reason why school falls short. It conflates regurgitation for understanding.

Shakespeare’s plays have been reduced to bite-sized cramming on SparkNotes and exam questions the following day. Or, take entrepreneurship, where certain kinds of wisdom can only be gained in the trenches of a sales call or when you have to fire the executive you swore was going to save your company.

Travel, too.

Something about the Golden Gate Bridge can only be understood when you feel the Pacific Ocean wind and shiver under a blanket of fog. Something about the life of Moses can only be understood when you stand atop Mount Nebo (where he died) and look down at the Promised Land of Israel. Something about Italian food can only be understood when you slurp “siero” in a Parmesan cheese factory and meet the 4th-generation shop owner.

Pixels on a screen aren’t enough.

Get out and Do the Thing because certain kinds of knowledge can only be gained through tactile, first-hand experience.

[Talkin' Yanks @TalkinYanks]

Boone tries to guess the number of left fielders he’s started since 2021

[Natural Immunity FTW @NaturallyFTW]

🚩 BREAKING: the corrupt EPA is set to approve a pesticide so Toxic that even at low doses it:

• LOWERS TESTOSTERONE
• Delays Puberty
• Poisons the nervous system

The food we eat will likely soon be drenched in Chlormequat - including grains, meat, & animal products.

[Talkin' Yanks @TalkinYanks]

Aaron Boone is preaching authenticity while managing the most buttoned up organization

[bert kreischer @bertkreischer]

This would have never happened without YOU! Your support, your comments, your posts…YOU made this movie. Now get out to the theaters, take your shirts off and SHARE IT. LET US MAKE WILD SHIT AGAIN!!!

[Patrick Sweeney @patrick_sweeney]

@facebook my Wife’s accounts been hacked for 3 days and is continuing to post items for sale to scam others. How many reports/blocks does it take for someone to stop this?
They changed her email so she is unable to change her account login info and there seems to be no other way.

[Patrick Sweeney @patrick_sweeney]

@Casey @nothing 🎧

[Patrick Sweeney @patrick_sweeney]

@Casey @nothing 👻

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

This is one of the greatest displays of the creative process I've seen.

John Mayer perfectly demonstrates something that many of my favorite artists all say:

You become creative by creating.

"You just keep going 'til you get something," Mayer says/sings. "You gotta keep forcing it, forcing it, forcing it…it doesn’t matter [what comes out of your mind/mouth].”

Dr. Andrew Huberman talks about how the brain circuits that turn on before those involved in creativity are of the stress system.

I've heard him use 3 analogies to explain this.

1) It’s like you have to wade through sewage before you can swim in clear water.

2) It’s like when you try to lift your max on the bench press—it takes time to work up to that weight.

3) It’s like your best creative work is on the other side of a door at the top of a staircase—it takes time and effort to get up the stairs and through that door.

In other words, Dr. Huberman says, you become more creative the more you create.

Many artists talk similarly about what Mayer refers to in the clip as "ouija boarding" (just sort of spitting out words and sounds).

John Legend says his songs start with what he calls “the mumble track.” “It’s just me humming and mumbling nonsense,” he said.

Judd Apatow says his movie scripts are all a product of the Down-Up theory: “Get the ideas DOWN then fix them UP.” “Give yourself permission to suck," Judd says. "Anything goes. Just get something down.”

Even if it’s nonsense, he says. Keep forcing it, forcing it, forcing it.

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Before I started writing online, I told Ryan Holiday I was just waiting to know for certain what I wanted to write about.

“Just start," he said.

"You’re trying to map out the whole 9 innings. Just throw the first pitch…You’re better off starting imperfectly than being paralyzed by the delusion of perfection.”

Rather than being paralyzed by the delusion that creativity comes to you, you're better off "forcing it, forcing it, forcing it," as Mayer said.

"Go get it from the universe."

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