Scott Robertson
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One of the most incredible endings in NCAA tourney history. Duke is up two with the ball and ten seconds left on the inbounds. Pure madness.
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Simon literally said ‘this is pointless’… then THIS happened 😱
Australian mum Kristy Sellars just turned a suitcase, projections & a pole into the most emotional, cinematic performance AGT has EVER seen.
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Admiral McRaven: "If you can't do the little things right, you'll never do the big things right"
"Basic SEAL training is six months of long, torturous runs in the soft sand, midnight swims in the cold water off San Diego, days without sleep, and always being cold, wet, and miserable.
It is six months of being constantly harassed by professionally trained warriors who seek to find the weak of mind and body and eliminate them. But the training also seeks to find those who can lead in an environment of constant stress, chaos, failure, and hardship."
Here are the 10 lessons:
1. Make your bed.
"Every morning we were required to make our bed to perfection. It seemed ridiculous, particularly since we were aspiring to be real warriors. But if you make your bed every morning, you will have accomplished the first task of the day.
It will give you a small sense of pride and encourage you to do another task, and another. Making your bed will also reinforce the fact that the little things in life matter. If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right."
2. Find someone to help you paddle.
"Every day your boat crew paddles through the surf. In winter, the surf can get 8 to 10 feet high. It is exceedingly difficult to paddle unless everyone digs in. Every paddle must be synchronized.
Everyone must exert equal effort or the boat will turn against the wave. You can't change the world alone; you will need some help."
3. Measure a person by the size of their heart.
"The best boat crew we had was made up of the little guys, the 'munchkin crew.' No one was over 5'5". They out-paddled, out-ran, and out-swam all the other boat crews. SEAL training was a great equalizer.
Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education, not your social status."
4. Get over being a sugar cookie.
"No matter how much effort you put into starching your hat or pressing your uniform, it just wasn't good enough. For failing inspection, you had to run into the surf fully clothed, then roll around on the beach until every part of your body was covered with sand. The effect was known as a 'sugar cookie.'
Some students couldn't accept that all their efforts were in vain. Those students didn't make it through training. Sometimes, no matter how well you prepare or perform, you still end up as a sugar cookie. It's just the way life is sometimes."
5. Don't be afraid of the circuses.
"A 'circus' was two hours of additional calisthenics designed to wear you down, break your spirit, force you to quit. But an interesting thing happened to those who were constantly on the list. Over time, those students got stronger and stronger.
The pain of the circuses built inner strength and physical resiliency. Life is filled with circuses. You will fail. You will likely fail often. It will be painful. It will be discouraging. At times it will test you to your very core."
6. Sometimes you have to slide head first.
"The most challenging obstacle was the slide for life, a 200-foot rope between two towers. The record had stood for years. Until one day, a student decided to go down head first.
Instead of inching his way down, he mounted the top of the rope and thrust himself forward. It was dangerous, seemingly foolish, fraught with risk. But he broke the record. Sometimes you have to take risks."
7. Don't back down from the sharks.
"The waters off San Clemente are a breeding ground for great white sharks. We were taught that if a shark begins to circle your position, stand your ground. Do not swim away. Do not act afraid.
And if the shark darts towards you, summon all your strength and punch him in the snout. There are a lot of sharks in the world. If you hope to complete the swim, you will have to deal with them."
8. Be your best in the darkest moments.
"To be successful in your mission, you have to swim under the ship and find the keel, the centerline and the deepest part of the ship. But the keel is also the darkest part, where you cannot see your hand in front of your face.
Every SEAL knows that at the darkest moment of the mission is the time when you must be calm, when you must be composed, when all your tactical skills, physical power, and inner strength must be brought to bear."
9. Start singing when you're up to your neck in mud.
"During Hell Week, we were ordered into the mud flats. The mud consumed each man until there was nothing visible but our heads. The instructors said we could leave if only five men would quit. It was still over eight hours until the sun came up.
And then, one voice began to echo through the night, one voice raised in song. Terribly out of tune, but sung with great enthusiasm. One voice became two, and two became three, and before long everyone was singing. Somehow the mud seemed a little warmer, the wind a little tamer, and the dawn not so far away."
10. Don't ever, ever ring the bell.
"In SEAL training, there is a brass bell that hangs in the center of the compound. All you have to do to quit is ring the bell. Ring the bell and you no longer have to wake up at 5 o'clock.
Ring the bell and you no longer have to be in the freezing cold swims. All you have to do is ring the bell to get out. If you want to change the world, don't ever, ever ring the bell."
Admiral McRaven concludes:
"Start each day with a task completed. Find someone to help you through life. Respect everyone. Know that life is not fair and that you will fail often. But if you take some risks, step up when the times are toughest, face down the bullies, lift up the downtrodden, and never, ever give up, the next generation will live in a world far better than the one we have today."
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@outsidemagazine Amazing! Incredible courage and crazy skills!
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Back in 2001, Warren Miller filmed one of the rowdiest segments of all time in Utah 🤯
How well do you think you would handle one of these slams?
⛷️: Chris Collins, Matt Collins, Jamie Pierre, Rob Holmes
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Roger Federer: "Effortless is a myth. I worked very hard to make it look easy."
"I left school at age 16 to play tennis full-time. So I never went to college. But I did graduate recently. I graduated tennis. I know the word is 'retire', but retired sounds awful. Like you, I finished one big thing and I'm moving on to the next. Like you, I'm figuring out what that is."
Lesson 1: Effortless is a myth.
"People would say my play was 'effortless.' Most of the time, they meant it as a compliment. But it frustrated me when they'd say, 'He barely broke a sweat' or 'Is he even trying?' The truth is, I had to work very hard to make it look easy."
Roger shares the wake-up call:
"An opponent at the Italian Open publicly questioned my mental discipline. He said, 'Roger will be the favorite for the first two hours. Then I'll be the favorite after that.' Everyone can play well the first two hours you're fit, you're fast, you're clear. After two hours, your legs get wobbly, your mind starts wandering, your discipline starts to fade. My parents, my coaches, even my rivals were calling me out. So I started to train harder. A lot harder."
He explains the paradox:
"I got the reputation for being 'effortless' because my warmups at tournaments were so casual that people didn't think I'd been training hard. But I had been working hard before the tournament when nobody was watching."
Roger redefines talent:
"Yes, talent matters. But talent has a broad definition. Most of the time, it's not about having a gift, it's about having grit. A great forehand can be called a talent. But discipline is also a talent. Patience is a talent. Trusting yourself is a talent. Embracing the process, loving the process, these are talents too. Some people are born with them. Everybody has to work at them."
Lesson 2: It's only a point.
"You can work harder than you thought possible and still lose. I have many times. Tennis is brutal. Every tournament ends the same way: one player gets a trophy. Every other player gets back on a plane, stares out the window, and thinks, 'How the hell did I miss that shot?'"
Roger shares the statistic that changed his mindset:
"In the 1,526 singles matches I played in my career, I won almost 80% of those matches. But what percentage of points do you think I won? Only 54%. Even top-ranked tennis players win barely more than half of the points they play."
He explains what this teaches:
"When you lose every second point on average, you learn not to dwell on every shot. You teach yourself to think: 'Okay, I double-faulted. It's only a point.' 'I came to the net and got passed again. It's only a point.' Even a great shot, an overhead backhand smash that ends up on ESPN's Top 10, that too is just a point."
Roger shares the key mindset:
"When you're playing a point, it has to be the most important thing in the world. And it is. But when it's behind you, it's behind you. This frees you to fully commit to the next point with intensity, clarity, and focus."
He reflects on losing Wimbledon 2008:
"Some call it the greatest match of all time. Okay, all respect to Rafa, but I think it would've been way better if I had won. Looking back, I feel like I lost at the very first point. I looked across the net and 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.' It took me until the third set to remember 'Hey buddy, you're the five-time defending champion. You're on grass. You know how to do this.' But it came too late."
Roger shares what champions understand:
"The best in the world are not the best because they win every point. It's because they know they'll lose again and again, and have learned how to deal with it. You accept it. Cry it out if you need to. Then force a smile. Move on. Be relentless. Adapt and grow. Work harder, work smarter."
Lesson 3: Life is bigger than the court.
"A tennis court is 2,106 square feet. That's where singles matches happen. Not much bigger than a dorm room. I worked a lot, learned a lot, and ran a lot of miles in that small space. But the world is a whole lot bigger than that."
Roger explains his philosophy:
"Even when I was just starting out, I knew that tennis could show me the world, but tennis could never be the world. I knew that if I was lucky, I could play competitively until my late 30s, maybe even 41. But even when I was in the top five, it was important to me to have a life, a rewarding life full of travel, culture, friendships, and especially family. These are the reasons I never burned out."
He shares what matters most:
"Tennis has given me so many memories. But my off-court experiences are the ones I carry forward just as much. The places I've travelled, the platform that lets me give back, and most of all the people I've met along the way."
Roger concludes:
"Tennis, like life, is a team sport. Yes, you stand alone on your side of the net. But your success depends on your team, your coaches, your teammates, even your rivals. All these influences help make you who you are."
His final words:
"Whatever game you choose, give it your best. Go for your shots. Play free. Try everything. And most of all, be kind to one another, and have fun out there."
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Fai il meglio che puoi, con quello che hai, nel posto in cui sei. 😍
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Arrested Development was once the funniest show on television. The Bluth Family gave us an all-time great American sitcom. This entire cast rules but the writing in the first few seasons is some of the funniest writing I’ve ever seen. It’s hard to replicate this kind of writing.
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This magnificent giant Pacific octopus caught off the coast of California by sportfishers.
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@LDTEmeritus @MagnoliaGpsy Meaning she recently decided to blow her brains out , in her house, in the vicinity of a bunch of cops, while her mother and child were downstairs. ‘Fresh off’ that decision, there shouldn’t be any rush to put an infant into her care. It’s hardly an outlandish opinion.
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That's an odd take. I'm not going as far as some who suggest Mr. Aylaian deliberately coordinated a team of police buddies he hoped would shoot her, but he certainly devoted considerable effort in trying to have Ms. Fitzsimmons convicted and sent to prison for her son's entire childhood. Maybe you think she should have been nicer to him about that.
Some observers have suggested that Mr. Aylaian himself began a "smear campaign" with absurd personal accusations and what many see as grotesquely inaccurate accusations in a contrived, almost "professional" abuse of the court system to obtain a false pretense restraining order.
If you think Ms. Fitzsimmons should just sit there and take it, you might not have listened to the trial testimony carefully enough. "Sit there and take it" is a manifestation of the problem, not the solution.
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If Kelsey Fitzsimmons or her lawyers think that content creators have her best interests at heart regarding Cayden’s custody by smearing his father in public, they should think again.
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@MagnoliaGpsy @LDTEmeritus I don’t believe anyone’s suggesting she couldn’t possibly be able to care for her child some time in the future, ma’am. But there obviously needs to be a process, as opposed to just handing over an infant, to someone fresh off attempting to shoot themselves in the head.
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@ScottRobertNZ @LDTEmeritus Women who attempt suicide are not precluded from caring for and having custody of their children, Sir. That’s a fact.
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@LDTEmeritus Maybe it’s just me, but however much his concerns had to do with his child’s safety, they were proven to be justified. If your decisions during stressful situations might include blowing your brains out, in the vicinity of your mother and child, people are right to worry.
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@ScottRobertNZ Maybe it's just me, but I've never had the impression that Mr. Aylaian's concerns had much to do with the child's safety.
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@MagnoliaGpsy @LDTEmeritus His character and his actions aren’t really the issue, I don’t think. If she’s a poor judge of character, that’s a different discussion. Perhaps it was his fault she got to that point, doesn’t really matter. Her decisions and actions preclude her from being safe with a child.
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So you are saying Justin gets to verbally & emotionally abuse her, while she is dealing with postpartum depression, have his family and friends attack her at a bridal party, take out an RO with allegations he did not have to prove, and resulted in her coworkers coming to her house to take her child, but it’s her fault? She did not “prove his point”. He manipulated her friends, the courts, and her employer, with full knowledge that she was emotionally vulnerable and he used her friends and his family to help him do it. That is straight up cold blooded dude.
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