This Guardiola documentary is even worse than Mourinho’s but it confirms my thesis that a litany of norm-breaking behaviors is involved in achieving excellence.
Roger Federer says he lost the 2008 Wimbledon final at the very first point, not in the darkness of the fifth set.
"But looking back, I feel like I lost at the very first point of the match."
"I looked across the net and I saw a guy who just a few weeks earlier crushed me in straight sets at the French Open and I thought, this guy is maybe hungrier than I am. And he's finally got my number."
"It took me until the third set before I remembered..."
"Some defeats hurt more than others. I knew I would never get another shot at six in a row."
"I lost Wimbledon, I lost my number one ranking, and suddenly people said, he had a great run. Is this the changing of the guard?"
The five-time defending champion, on his best surface, spent two sets playing against a thought he carried onto the court from Paris. The reset, when it finally comes, is worth hearing in his own voice.
The lesson: your attention picks a story before your effort gets a vote. Check the story you are carrying into the first point of whatever you start today.
- Roger Federer (@rogerfederer) at Dartmouth Commencement (@dartmouth)
I dont think Tuchel told anyone to sit back but realised the weak mentality of the squad as they dropped deep and said to himself might as well try and help with the additions that fit this mindset.
England players gave up themselves.
The first big money I ever earned in my life was a ₦225,000 Chevron Scholarship towards the end of my 2nd year in college.
I gave ₦25,000 as tithe, I gave a classmate ₦12,000 to pay for sickle cell treatment of his sister, I gave fellow struggling students like me different amounts, some got ₦500, some ₦5,000...then I got myself a used laptop and plenty of books.
Before this time, the highest amount my bank account had ever seen was ₦10,500. Receiving over 20 times that amount at once was crazy.
By the time I was done giving, I still had over ₦125,000 left. Yet, a year after that, the money had doubled to ₦250,000 as more scholarships from various sources flowed in.
That experience reinforced a belief I had then and that I still have now: my money is not really mine. I'm just a custodian of it. This is why it is so hard for me to buy things for myself but I find it so easy to give it away.
When I moved to the U.S. and started earning in $, it was a no-brainer for me to continue the practice that has served me so well. Same as when I started in Shell and started making real money.
For about 10 years now, the biggest line item in my personal finances is not taxes, or mortgage, but donations - to God, to charity, to causes I believe in and to the needy.
Last year, my CPA said, "you give more away than most households in the US earn."
I believe you can give your way to prosperity.
To grow, you need to let go.
Tithing is a good first step in learning to let go.
A few central themes here:
1. Never take the first “No” as a final answer
2. Be extremely unreasonable and ignore the status quo at least once or twice in your youth
3. Lean completely into your impulses while you’re young, the stakes are still much lower for you
4. Be delusional
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Alan Keyes stands as an intellectual giant beside Obama. Naturally, Illinois chose Obama, and today we live with the consequences of his legacy.
Notice how Obama looks like a lost schoolboy during this memorable debate.
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For my British and European friends who are "shocked" and "surprised", here are 10 reasons you didn't see this coming.
Read this short post and then read the replies from our American friends who will confirm what I'm saying.
1. Americans love their country and want it to be the best in the world. America is a nation of people who conquered a continent. They love strength. They love winning. Any leader who appeals to that has an automatic advantage.
2. Unlike Europeans, Americans have not accepted managed decline. They don't have Net Zero here, they believe in producing their own energy and making it as cheap as possible because they know that their prosperity depends on it.
3. Prices for most basic goods in the US have increased rapidly and are sky high. What the official statistics say about inflation and the reality of people's lives are not the same.
4. Unlike you, Americans do not believe in socialism. They believe in meritocracy. They don't care about the super rich being super rich because they know that they live in a country where being super rich is available to anyone with the talent and drive to make it. They don't resent success, they celebrate it.
5. Americans are the most pro-immigration people in the world. Read that again. Seriously, read it again. Americans love an immigrant success story. They want more talented immigrants to come to America. But they refuse to accept people coming illegally. They believe in having a border.
6. Americans are sensitive about racial issues and their country's imperfect history. They believe that those who are disadvantaged by the circumstances of their birth should be given the opportunity to succeed. What they reject, however, is the idea that in order to address the errors of the past new errors must be made. DEI is racist. They know it and they reject it precisely because they are not racist.
7. Americans are the most philosemitic nation on earth. October 7 and the pro-Hamas left's reaction shocked them to their very core because, among other things, they remember what 9/11 was like and they know jihad when they see it.
8. Americans are extremely practical people. They care about what works, not what sounds good. In Europe, we produce great writers and intellectuals. In America they produce (and attract) great engineers, businessmen and investors. Because of this, they care less about Trump's rhetoric than you do and more about his policies than you do.
9. Americans are deeply optimistic people. They hate negativity. The woke view of American history as a series of evils for which they must eternally apologise is utterly abhorrent to them. They believe in moving forward together, not endlessly obsessing about the past.
10. America is a country whose founding story is one of resistance to government overreach. They loathe unnecessary restrictions, regulations and control. They understand that freedom comes with the price of self-reliance and they pay it gladly.