What happens when you die:
They divide up your shit.
They summarize your life in 500-1000 words.
People who knew you less say sorry to people who knew you more.
Everyone eats, drives home, and wakes up the next day and goes to work.
Whatever you’re worried about won’t be in those 500 words.
You can dare greatly or not at all, but you’re gonna die either way.
Might as well squeeze every motherfucking drop out.
The most dangerous phase of your career happens right after you achieve basic financial comfort. When you are no longer desperate, your hunger vanishes, and complacency takes over. Most people get trapped in a moderate lifestyle because it is safe enough to stop fighting.
@theskindoctor13 I am too facing this issue. Being an endurance athlete, normally the training hours are like 5.30 am to 9.30 am.. i do use sunscreen.. spf 30 (lotus sports, something).. any easy suggestions to do something better to protect skin ?
One of the best ways to live freely is to keep reminding yourself that you can’t make someone choose you, you can’t make people like you, and it’s okay. It sets you free.
Jealousy depends on proximity. You can only be jealous of people who are close to you. Within reach. Twitter gives you a sense of faux proximity to everyone. So here you can even be jealous of a billionaire. And that’s why envy is the fuel of Twitter.
The older I get, the more I realize you can reinvent yourself as many times as you need. New standards. New habits. New mindsets. New people. New career. It's never too late. You can change. Today, tomorrow, and as many times as it takes to create the life you want.
People have forgotten the art of conversation. Even if someone says and expresses something differently they start feeling offended or uncomfortable. They don't know how to drive a conversation keeping who's right or wrong aside.... miss this in present times ...
Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada spoke about the contradictions of human nature:
“Some people dream of having a swimming pool at home, while those who have one hardly ever use it. Those who have lost a loved one feel a profound sense of loss, while others often complain about their living relatives. Those without a partner long for one, while those who have one often don't appreciate it. The hungry would give anything for a meal, while the satiated complain about the taste of their food. Those without a car dream of owning one, while those who have a car are always looking for a better one.”
The key to happiness is gratitude: truly seeing and appreciating what we already have, and understanding that somewhere, someone would give anything for what we take for granted.
Rafa cannot be an inspiration. And I mean that seriously.
Watched the RAFA series on Netflix with my daughters this week. The 9 year old was okay and maybe even excited. The five-year-old had to be - let's say - firmly encouraged to stay seated.
I kept pausing to tell them where I was when some of these matches happened. The 2008 Wimbledon final - Nadal winning his first on grass, at dusk, in what many still call the greatest match ever played. The 2012 epic, which for a lot of people remains the most complete - for me a complete heartbreak. The 2022 comeback - a man who had been told his foot condition might end his career after his first few grand slams, winning not only his 14th Roland Garros but his second AO.
Each of those matches is etched somewhere specific in my memory. The emotions came back watching the documentary like they hadn't gone anywhere.
My daughters of course couldn't relate. They will grow up creating their own moments and their own memories. I hope sport is part of that and maybe even their own matches, who knows.
But I kept coming back to the thought I mentioned at the beginning as I watched the series.
Rafa cannot be an inspiration.
Nobody can look at what he did - the physical punishment, the sheer doggedness, the way he kept coming back when his own body was the opponent - and think: I can do that. He belongs to a handful of people across all of human history, in sport or any other field, who achieved what they achieved.
Holding him up as a template is almost unfair to the rest of us.
But here is what the documentary does show: At the absolute pinnacle of human achievement, he felt self-doubt. He wanted to give up. He lost hope. He questioned himself in ways that will feel familiar to anyone who has ever tried to build something or push through something hard.
And that is the more honest inspiration.
Court Philippe-Chatrier has the words engraved: "Victory belongs to the most tenacious." But the tenacity that matters to most of us isn't the tenacity to win the tournament. It's the tenacity to win your own inner doubts. To show up when everything in you is arguing for staying put.
Showing up isn't just how you succeed. Showing up is the success.
My daughters will figure that out in their own way, in their own time. I just hope they have their own version of those matches to look back on when they need reminding.
Well done Netflix. Made me cry.
@chiragbarjatya Can you recommended a good lab at Pune to get the VO2 max tested ?
Also, how accurate you consider the VO2 max indicated by Garmin watches ?
@ANI@AshGowariker an identical case as shown in your latest movie “System”.. and we know what is going to happen in this real life case too !!
Thanks for making the movie, even though it highlights what is wrong with the system, these things will keep going on.dont know for how long!