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Pragmatic. Brave. Disciplined.

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One of the most useful vlogs out there.

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Klaus: So what exactly is the plan here? Diego: I told you to wait in the car. Klaus: Yeah but you also told me that licking a 9-volt battery would give me pubes. Diego: We were eight.

“You don’t get to blame your problems on anyone but yourself.” – Allison 

“Nietzsche once said, "Man is as a rope stretched between the animal and the superhuman. A rope over an abyss. It is a dangerous crossing, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting." – Sir Reginald Hargreeves

“As much as you must strive for individual greatness, and strive you must, for it won't come to you of its own accord. You must also remember that there is no individual stronger than the collective...The ties that bind you together makes you stronger than you are alone. They will make you impervious to the pain and hardship the world will thrust upon you. And believe me when I tell you, life will be hard. It will be painful.” We can accomplish anything when we accept responsibility together. This is what creates trust.

“We can accomplish anything when we accept responsibility together. This is what creates trust.” – Sir Reginald Hargreeves  

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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Ernest Hemingway

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You become Cary Grant not just because of the sanity and confidence that comes with it, nor the ability to conveniently dismiss criticism from your haters as simply “false.” You do it because being an interesting man, pursuing intellectual and interesting things, disciplining yourself through diet and working out, and increasing your wisdom through study and thought makes for a better life, a better mind, and a better man. You enjoy your life more, you enjoy more important things, and you have life-experiences that the average (and genuine) basement VirginTOW dweller will never have.  So while the path to “Cary Grant” is a difficult one, realize you are going to die. You can live a life aiming to be Cary Grant, or one that will be wasted like nearly 98% of most people’s lives.

Aaron Clarey, the world’s only professional asshole 

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I decided that the path to protect my ego doesn’t lead to my goals. I did this not to prove to anyone, but myself. For example, I took note of a skilled contractor during college. This man built his business out of the ashes. He did more in five years than most do in a lifetime. The main reason I learned was he didn’t obtain an ego. That ego would have told him to sit out nasty and hard jobs. However, he told me if he didn’t take those jobs, he wouldn’t have had near the experience or opportunities…So now when my coworkers drive by building site they smile with envy, instead of doubt. I learned to listen to myself and base my actions of that.

Return of Kings article aka a provocative website

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Paul the Apostle in Romans 5 "For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so.

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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors and the most patient of teachers.

Charles William Eliot

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Why he won't retire: I didn't expect to become a professional tennis player. Everything after top 100 and even top 10 for me was like way beyond. Did I Ever really believe it was going to happen? Probably not. But let's just sort of dream big and give it a chance, you know? So everything the whole last 10 years has been more than I could ever ask for. And for that reason, I think, I have this pleasure and this fun, because I remember how it feels to play on Court 23. I remember how sad and angry I was when I was younger. I remember how much work I put into it. And that's why I don't want to give it away just like that. I look like I'm so laid-back, I love everything, it all came so easily for me. But it wasn't like that at all...I wasn't Tiger Woods or Rafa, or HIngis--one of these genius superkids who you knew one day would be a champion.

Roger Federer

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He's Nixonian in that sense--enjoyment does not seem to be a priority. He is just so clearly more interested in power than in things. He understands that the symbols of power--and this is not something necessarily so well understood by the rich and powerful--aren't power; they are distractions.  What's more he always seems to be on the run. Disconnected, physically as well as emotionally. Everywhere but nowhere. Not part of anything. Just a man with a phone. He seems abstract, People are against him. They are against him because...well, he is who he is and they are who they are. He stands here; they stand there. His world is his world--it is not necessarily a part of other worlds. He exists in opposition. You are with him, you are against him, or you are irrelevant to him.  "You're a liberal." Murdoch is almost not making a point about ideology. It's more a point about temperament--his versus yours. THe way he sees it, he's the last reasonable man standing.  Are you sentimental or are you realistic? Are you a basic sort or are you fancy? DO you know the value of a dollar? What he is is a fifties sort of dad. In fact, he is a fifties dad. In the international media circles that he's moved in for the last generation, this fifties dad thing has become a particularly rare sort of sensibility. So when he sees it, he embraces it. While this sensibility is most prevalently found among right-wingers, specific policies aren't only what he's looking for or what attracts him. It's rather the articulation that moves him: a lack of equivocation, a firm declaration, a clear identity, a fundamental compression, a lack of evident complication or obvious neurosis.  Indeed the hatred that people bear him and the fear they have of him have much to do with the sense that he has no weakness, no vanity, no need. He does not need to be liked--does not, it seems even like to be liked.

The Man Who Owns the News by Michael Wolff

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We protect ourselves by protecting each other.

Summer Wars

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That’s just how my life is. Many people passed me over, but you know that’s life. Sometimes, you’re in the lead, sometimes, you fall behind. Being in the lead or hanging behind doesn’t make us to brag or give up. Life is a long distance race. It’s not an easy job to complete the race. I want to show the (my) children that’s how it is.

Song Ilkook (송일국), from The Return of Superman (슈퍼맨이 돌아왔다) (Episode 83). (via this-beautifulstranger)

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Here is what no one tells you about growing up. You will crave the fetal position long after childhood has passed. Find comfort here, find solitude. But also find the ability to rise again. It’ll be decades after your first steps that you realize the Earth is meeting you with equal force. You are always supported. People will pass in and pass out. Let them. Do not chain anyone to your soul. Keep giving away pieces of yourself instead. I promise that you will remain whole. There is nothing better than laughter. Find it. Let it shake you. Create laughter that shakes others. It is the music of the human spirit. Sing it loud. Change will scare you. Let it. But never fight it. Find passion. Search for it. Stalk it. Do not stop until it is resting inside your chest. Inject it into your job, your hobbies, your friends, your family, your life. Sometimes you will feel old. Sometimes, young. Sometimes, you will wish to freeze time. Use this as ammunition to make each moment count and to stop counting each moment. Comparison is the root of all suffering. Only compete with yourself. Keep becoming better and bigger and brighter than you were the minute before. You will outgrow your shell in no time. Ask questions. Remain curious. There is never a point that you will stop learning. Stay hungry for knowledge. Love will find you when it finds you. Do not search high and low. Do not base your self worth on the affection of another. Find affection for yourself first. The enigma of growing up can be explained within itself. Grow every day. Grow your kindness, your patience, your experiences, your happiness. Move only upward. For this is the direction of change and challenge and chances. Here is what no one tells you about growing up: it’s not that bad.

Grow Every Day (via thegirlincendio)

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John Waters’s spectacular RISD commencement address on creative rebellion and the artist’s task to cause constructive chaos – a fine addition to the greatest commencement addresses of all time. 

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For Father’s Day, history’s greatest letters of fatherly advice. 

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It’s about fulfilling some platonic vision of how work should be: a tight-knit group of friends, pushing themselves to greatness.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/magazine/silicon-valleys-youth-problem.html

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The “don’t fuck up” instinct is much more important than the “I’ve got to keep this going” instinct. Read more: http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/anthony-bourdains-life-advice-20140919#ixzz3cQ8vyB1A Follow us: @mensjournal on Twitter | MensJournal on Facebook

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I’m a guy who lives in New York. I’m a very busy guy. I would say that I work hard. But — it was only 14 years ago that I was at the tail end of almost 30 years of actually working in a kitchen. And then to go to Southeast Asia, a place I find incredibly beautiful and enchanting, and deeply satisfying in every sense of the word, but you’re constantly confronted with what work really can mean. I love rice country for that reason. Any place where people grow rice. You see people bent at the hip, re-planting rice, eight, 10 hours a day. It puts words like “work” into perspective. You see how people fight to live every day in Congo — you know, it forces you to reevaluate words you thought you knew the meaning of.  It just puts your own life and the world you live in, in a larger perspective. Read more: http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/anthony-bourdains-life-advice-20140919#ixzz3cQ9SgGeJ Follow us: @mensjournal on Twitter | MensJournal on Facebook