Mafeyisi Molea

Sheffield Hallam University Alumni: World Athletics authorised AR: Talk Sports law, tax law & Customs law. IBA member. Laugh & glow with impact

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Jordan Peterson on why you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are:

1. The deepest lesson under the Buddha's enlightenment is not "deny the world." It is that you should never let what you are stop you from being what you could be. The material world only becomes worth abandoning if your attachment to it is making you less than you could become.

2. What you identify with determines what you become. If you identify with what you already are, clinging to order, you become a tyrant. If you identify with chaos, the opposite of order, you become nihilistic. Both are traps. The way through is to identify with neither.

3. Identify instead with the capacity to continually transcend what you are. Not with any fixed state, but with the process of becoming more. That single shift changes how you relate to everything, including your own failures.

4. Seeking out your own errors on purpose is what humility actually is. You put yourself in situations where you can discover where you are wrong, where your limits are, where there is not yet enough of you, ideally in a way that challenges you without knocking you out of the game.

5. But you can exhaust yourself fighting dragons. Challenge is necessary, but unlimited challenge burns you out. Peterson coached lawyers with infinite workloads who worked flat out and were destroying themselves, because there was always more work to do.

6. The counterintuitive fix was to work less and rest on a schedule. He had them block off four days every three months, planned so far ahead the calendar protected it. They tracked billable hours to test it, and the hours went up. You can have the vacation and the productivity at once.

7. You are not optimizing this week, you are building a 30-year career. The goal is a game you can play today and still play next month and next decade, one that does not make you bitter or worn to a frazzle. burn off a feather at a time instead of letting the whole thing burst into flames.

8. To be renewed, you have to drink the water of life, and water is chaos. It washes away too much order. Staying refreshed means taking on exactly the right amount of chaos to keep your garden nourished, no more and no less.

9. Meaning is the marker that you have the balance right. Peterson calls this one of the only ideas he has ever found that he believes to be rock solid. You can use your own sense of meaning to calibrate your progress through life.

10. It starts with two decisions. The first is a decision of love, that being is worthwhile, and you will work to better it. The second is a decision of truth, that you will play a straight game. Aim at the highest good you can currently conceive, and update it as you learn.

11. It is better to be engaged in a hard problem than to have no problem at all. You do not escape the problem of being. You find one worth solving and become so engaged that the engagement justifies the problem's existence. You get the problem and the solution at the same time.

[BBO Sports @bbosports]

Cristiano Ronaldo: "İspanya maçında ne olursa olsun, Cristiano buradan vicdanı rahat bir şekilde ayrılacak. Çünkü hayatta da, futbolda da elimden gelen her şeyi verdim. Bunca yıldır oynamak, asla bir zorunluluktan ötürü değildi."

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

A free 100-page academic writing handbook by the Education and Training Boards of Ireland

Click the link below to download the handbook,

Follow Silvi on LinkedIn for more free resources on academic writing.
https://t.co/xbRovY7A5y

[Martyn Ziegler @martynziegler]

UEFA calls FIFA decision on Balogun suspension "unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable"

[Joseph S Blatter @SeppBlatter]

Red cards are not overturned by political phone calls. They are overturned by rules, evidence and independent bodies. If a U.S. President intervenes with the FIFA President — and a player is suddenly cleared before a World Cup knockout match — the question is unavoidable: Quo vadis, FIFA?

Football must never become a playground for political power. #FIFA #WorldCup #GianniInfantino #DonaldTrump

[Daniel Storey @danielstorey85]

Belgian FA to consider their options regarding the decision to scratch Balogun's suspension. And rightly so. Our expectations were low and fair play, FIFA have gone under them with ease.

[‏ً @heisdenji]

Idris Elba says he was given one warning before auditioning for The Wire: don’t let them know you’re British.

Trevor Noah: “I’ve seen people get shocked when they find out you’re not American.”

Idris Elba: “I was unemployed, bro.”

“I was living in New Jersey. I was bartending, working the door, DJing.”

“Before you know it, you just start speaking like an American.”

“Then my casting director said, ‘This thing has come up. It’s called The Wire.’”

“‘But if you go in, you cannot let them know you aren’t American.’”

“‘This is about Baltimore. It’s very specific.’”

“So I auditioned for four weeks straight in an American accent.”

“Then at the fourth audition, they looked at me and said…”

“‘Idris… where are you from?’”

Trevor Noah: “‘Where are you from?’ That’s the phrase every immigrant is terrified of hearing.”

Idris Elba: “My palms started sweating.”

“I’m thinking… they told you not to say anything.”

“I looked at them and said…”

“‘I’m from East London.’”

“The room just exploded.”

“‘Oh my God… we had a bet.’”

“‘We knew you weren’t from Baltimore or Brooklyn, but we never guessed England.’”

“‘You got the job.’”

“‘We don’t want you to play Avon.”

“We want you to play Stringer Bell.’”

“I walked out thinking…”

“‘Did my life just change?’”

[David Perell Clips @PerellClips]

There are two types of people.

Thermometers, who reflect the temperature of the room.

And thermostats, who set it.

"A lot of people are just very compassionate, which makes them wonderful people, because they're not thermostats, they're thermometers. They reflect the temperature of the room.

But the people who are good characters, they're thermostats. They come in and just set the energy of wherever they are."

[Charles Bukowski Legacy @Bukowskiquot]

“Each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly.”

—Charles Bukowski

[#BETAwards @BETAwards]

We love a full circle moment 🥹

Lauryn Hill sang about the industry pressure she faced during her first pregnancy in her 1998 song, 'To Zion'.

28 years later, her son, Zion Marley, surprised her on stage with his single 'Marching', inspired by the song she dedicated to him. 🤎

Rewatch the 2026 #BETAwards now on Paramount+.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Cape Verde...almost pulled off the unthinkable. What an insane run.

Their coach, Bubista, is a quote machine on how to instill the right approach:

"The key? Our team's unity and resilience. We've always talked about our organisation, but also about our determination to do things without fear."

"We're a small country, but we fight for what we want to achieve. For us, nothing is impossible."

"Everyone is entitled to dream, and nothing is impossible."

"If others did not respect us, that was their issue. We trust our work."

"You can achieve great things regardless of your challenges… so long as you have a dream and chase after it."

Play to win.
Put in the work.
Trust your training.
Team first.
Chase a dream.
Believe

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

“Beyond dystopian.”

Novelist Dave Eggers is sounding the alarm about AI, which he argues is harming children’s education:

“You have a ten-year-old who is unprecedented in the history of the world. There's never been anyone like that person… To think about that one-of-a-kind-in-the-history-of-humanity person shopping their vision out to a machine, how tragic that is. That's beyond dystopian. It cannot be allowed. Not even one ounce of AI can be allowed in the humanities and youth education.”

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Viagra probably won’t help this kind of performance.

20 years ago we thought it would. There was early research showing promise for acclimatizing to altitude for climbing mountains.

But 15 years ago, most of the studies on endurance performance at altitude showed no benefit.

Then in 2019 a meta analysis found had a large effect reducing pulmonary artery pressure, a small effect on cardiac output and oxygen saturation, and no reliable effect on performance.

The basic idea is it has a physiological effect but well down the chain of things that contribute to performance at altitude. Meaning it helps something that isn’t close to the limiting factor. So you don’t see a reliable performance boost.

There is a caveat. For a select group of people they have an exaggerated pulmonary pressure increase and a steeper performance decline partially due to this. For these folks, Viagra would help. It’s a small subset in the little research we have.

But again in most of the research, the higher the altitude the more this mechanism comes into play. And while 7k feet is high, not so much in terms of climbing world.

So would I use Viagra? No. Unless I had individual data on their physiology.

And umm the side effect is rather hard to deal with.

[Cash N Sport @CashNSport]

Rele Mofokeng case study: Why it's almost impossible for SA players to go straight to England.

PS, this was recorded before the deal announcement.
https://t.co/DJSl6TAdaz

[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

SASO was officially launched at the University of the North (Turfloop) on this day in 1969. The organization, championed by Steve Biko, became a major driver of the Black Consciousness philosophy. Photo Credit: John Reader/The LIFE Images Collection

[Dominic King @DKingTelegraph]

Nobody will be complaining if England end up being known as “The Harry Kane team” - this anecdote from Scott Parker’s column on Tuesday in @TelegraphSport captures why he has become such a phenomenon ⬇️

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Sports is great.

One reason, it's real and there's a defined outcome.

You can't fake it, rationalize it, create a facade like social media. It's right there for all to see.

And in a world filled with superficial fake nonsense, sport is glorious and fills a need.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Your baby isn’t fully set at conception.

Jessie Inchauspé explains: during pregnancy, a mother’s diet actively programs her child’s DNA through epigenetics, those little “dimmer switches” that turn genes on or off.

High blood glucose? It can flip switches that raise her baby’s lifetime risk of diabetes.

Moms have way more power than we’re told. You’re not just “letting nature happen”, you’re co-creating your child’s future health.

This changes everything about how we talk to pregnant women.

Epigenetic changes set in the womb can influence disease risk for decades.

What’s one pregnancy or nutrition fact that surprised you the most?

[Rob Koehler @RobKoehler2]

The anti-doping system is built around athletes, yet athletes have little say in the rules that govern them. Those rules are largely shaped by sport administrators. It's time for independent, collective athlete representation at the negotiating table.@ptpaplayers
@WorldPlayersWPA