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[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

Norway consistently wins the most medals at the Winter Olympic Games, with a population of just 5.6 million people.

A big part of their success is how they treat youth sports—and it’s the opposite of what we do in the US. Here’s what we can learn from Norway:

1. Scorekeeping:

In the US: Youth sports tend to be hyper competitive even at early ages. Leagues almost always keep score.

In Norway: Scorekeeping isn’t even allowed until age 13.

Removing winners and losers keeps the focus on the process not outcomes. It keeps kids engaged longer because it minimizes pressure (and tears) and maximizes fun, learning, and growth. The goal isn’t to win a third grade championship. It’s to love sport and keep playing.

2. Trophies:

In the US: If you give everyone a trophy, you’re creating snowflakes who will never gain a competitive edge.

In Norway: Whenever trophies are awarded, they are handed out to everyone.

If getting a trophy makes young kids feel good, we should give them trophies. Maybe they’ll come back and play again next year!!

As for the creation of snowflakes with no competitive edge—Norway’s athletes are tough as nails and all they do is win.

3. Prioritizing Fun:

In the US: Far too often, the goal is to win.

In Norway: The national philosophy is “joy of sport.”

Youth sports in the US are driven by adults, ego, and money. Youth sports in Norway are driven by fun.

Only half of kids in the US participate in sports. The number one reason they drop out: because they aren’t having fun anymore. In Norway, 93% of kids participate in youth sports. Fun is the foremost goal.

4. Playing Multiple Sports:

In the US: There’s pressure to specialize early and play your best sport year round.

In Norway: Try as many sports as you can before specializing as late as college.

Norway encourages kids to try all types of sport. This reduces injury and burnout and increases all-around athleticism. It also helps promotes match quality, or finding the sport you are best suited for as your body develops, which is impossible if you commit to a single sport too early.

5. Affordability

In the US: There is increasingly a pay-to-play model with high fees for leagues, equipment, and travel. This excludes many kids from playing.

In Norway: It’s a national priority to keep youth sports affordable and therefore accessible for all.

Kids aren’t priced out, which creates opportunities for everyone to participate (and develop into athletes), regardless of their parents’ income level.

We could learn a lot from Norway:

In the US, 70% of kids drop out of youth sports by age 13. This not only diminishes an elite-athlete pipeline, but it also destroys an opportunity for healthy habits and all the character lessons kids can learn from sport.

In Norway, lifelong participation in sport is the norm. The goal isn’t to have the best 9U team. It’s to develop the best athletes. Those are two very different things. And Norway has the gold medals to prove it.

[Gretchen Ronnevik @garonnevik]

I've had a couple requests asking my family's take on this. First off, it's the first time someone on the USA Men's Cross Country team has gotten a silver metal in 50 years. Ben Ogden almost catching Klæbo is a huge leap forward for the US in this sport. The Norwegians dominate this sport every year. They are extremely well funded in this sport compared to the states. Biathalon was invented by the Norwegian army, as they patrol their border. Skiing is what they do, and part of their national defense. They grow up on skis. This is like if the Norwegians produced someone who could almost touch our Michael Jordan in basketball. This is their superstar. So hats off to Ben Ogden for the silver metal! That is NO SMALL THING!

But also, look at Klæbo here! When I asked my husband, and my pro skier son about this hill, the only word they both said was "insane."

Do you guys have any idea how hard this is? Not only do you have to have your wax just perfect (that's where the support team comes into play--and the wax job on these skis must have been a work of art and perfection for the conditions) he's just sprinting like the ground is flat. These hills are steep, and slippery. Moving this fast on a hill like that is truely insane. You use kick wax for hills like this, so your ski can grip the snow without gliding. The rest of your ski has glide wax for speed on the downhills. But for the uphills, there's an area of your ski where you put kick wax, and you have to literally kick straight down to engage that wax with the snow and grip. So not only is he going forward quickly, he's having to pound his foot downward in a hard kick with each step to grip the snow and not slip backwards. You don't lightfoot it up a hill, you pound up a hill. He's pounding, but making it look like he's lightfooting because it's so crazy fast. He gained 5 seconds on the rest of the skiers in just this one hill.

[Cooper Mitchell - HomeGymGuy @homegymcoop]

Here is Johannes Hosflot Klaebo (Gold-Medal Winner) training on his home gym skiing treadmill.

Guy is an absolute savage.

[Grey @jgreyfriend]

• be Dietrich Mateschitz
• born 1944, Austria, takes 10 years to graduate college (too busy skiing)
• lands a boring job marketing toothpaste (Blendax) in Asia
• 1982: arrives in Thailand with crushing jet lag
• local contact hands him a syrupy, uncarbonated tonic called "Krating Daeng"
• drinks it, jet lag vanishes instantly
• realizes this isn't a drink, it's legal performance fuel
• tracks down the Thai inventor, Chaleo Yoovidhya
• "I'll take this to the West. We split the company 49/49. You make it, I sell it."
• spends 3 years carbonating the formula to suit Western tastes
• Austria bans it initially; he uses the ban as marketing ("It's too strong for you")
• launch strategy: hires students to fill nightclub trash cans with empty Red Bull cans
• creates artificial social proof; everyone thinks it's the hottest thing in town
• refuses to do traditional commercials; decides to "own the event" instead
• 2004: buys the failing Jaguar F1 team from Ford for $1
• Ford laughs, thinking they dumped a liability
• turns it into a dynasty (Red Bull Racing) that destroys Ferrari and Mercedes
• sends a man (Felix Baumgartner) to the edge of space just to drop him
• owns 5 football clubs, 2 F1 teams, and a media empire
• buys a private island in Fiji (Laucala) with its own submarine
• never takes the company public, answers to zero shareholders
• rarely gives interviews, lives like a ghost in Salzburg
• dies with $27 Billion, leaves the empire to his son

He sold sugar water for $4 by convincing the world it was liquid courage.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

https://t.co/7l7Jef99QZ

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Indeed, Idiocracy is happening much faster than expected

[David Knight Legg @KnightLegg]

For all the college students: this is what real anti-fascism looks like.

One of the most consequential protests in a generation:
Unarmed Iranian people are risking everything to fight the secret police and rid themselves of 45 years of Islamo-fascist ayatollahs and their sick reign of terror.

[Michele Giannone @MicheleG3]

Saw this on IG.

Worth sharing at the moment.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

This is so frustrating. It's getting quite hard not to conclude that the environmental movement is primarily an anti-Western vehicle given its silence about arguably the biggest environmental destruction currently being wrought on the planet.

The massive - and potentially irreversible - oceanic destruction by China's huge trawler fleet has been known for about a decade now, but still no one seems to care.

The history of funding and influence links between Russia, China, and some Western environmental groups is well known:

See @UnHerd article here: https://t.co/Pq4KMRmM0m

The longer our most visible environmental activists and orgs stay silent about the behavior of the Chinese trawler fleet, the more we know what their game plan was all along.

Also I seem to recall celebs like Leo DiCaprio caring very much about marine conservation and protection of biodiversity. Sadly, he won’t say shit about this because he would never make another movie again.

He would sooner denigrate Western consumption habits on stage at the Oscars than criticize or use his foundation to do anything about the Chinese destroying swathes of marine ecosystems and overfishing.

[Final Cut Tile 🇺🇸 @FinalCutTile]

Every family has that one uncle...

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Possibly the greatest single male athletic performance of all time

[Bill @W98AB]

If you become head of equities at one of the biggest banks, in one of the biggest finance hubs globally you get a worse office than Michael Scott

[New York Post @nypost]

MIT nuclear science professor found shot dead in home in swanky Mass. neighborhood https://t.co/eeA8QpMjUf

[Nick Huber @sweatystartup]

11 badass ways to increase your quality of life for $10k per month:

1) House cleaner 1x a week ($600 / mo)

2) Nanny who is an excellent cook ($4.8k / mo)

3) In-home haircuts ($150 / mo)

4) Driver for date nights and airport ($700 / mo)

5) Executive assistant from Somewhere dot com ($1.5k / mo)

6) Amazing coffee delivered from Gunnison Co (Tributary) and ground with a D64 ($150 / mo)

7) Sauna / plunge ($100 / mo)

8) mini split HVAC in master bedroom to sleep in 65 degrees peak summer ($100 / mo)

9) country club membership ($1,300 / mo total spend)

10) virtual personal trainer in the Philippines ($10 per session - $150 / mo)

11) mobile car detailing every 4 weeks 2 cars ($400 / mo)

Way better than buying the $1.5m beach house, which costs you the same per month.

And 100% variable expenses that could be cut anytime.

What am I missing? What is on your list of badass ways to upgrade your life?

[Ramit Sethi @ramit]

How it feels when Patrick773924 tells me the house he bought for $300,000 20 years ago could sell for $650,000 today, meaning he “made a $350,000 profit”

[Sean McClure @sean_a_mcclure]

@mindsetmachine calm down

“Life really does begin at forty. Up until then you are just doing research.”

- Carl Jung

[Leaders 𝕏 Junction @LeadersJunction]

Here's how you know someone is highly intelligent✅

[BarryRoland19 @BarryRoland19]

Parents of toddlers:

Have met a few 4-5 year olds recently who can add, subtract, and multiply in their heads. Their secret?

Numberblocks, a TV show.

So we started letting our 3yo watch it a few weeks ago.

Today, she told me what 9+6 equals. I have never taught her anything more advanced than 1+1 / 2+2.

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

Jean-Claude Van Damme demonstrates his signature kicks in a suit, 1994.