CxD 160: 🏀 ⚾️ 🏈 🛌 🌈
1. Lebron James was recently heckled during a game and caught some silly flack for giving the fan some pushback. Say what you will about Lebron’s best 🏀 days being both in the rear-view mirror and nowhere close to MJ’s 🙊, this is a man of Character. Tip o’ the CxD cap to you, Sir.
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Drew Robinson was a professional ⚾️ player. He also had crippling self-doubt and tried to kill himself with a bullet to his head. Instead, he “only” lost an eye. Now he’s attempting to play professional baseball again and is helping those suffering from depression. A truly amazing story worth all your time. Read it here.
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Character is not as simple as working hard and cultivating your best self. Often, it involves seeing through all the ways you’ve constructed that self that feels to you impenetrable and forever lasting. Character is not a meritocracy and so even Tom Brady will grow old and die. But until then, he’s 43 and playing in his 10th championship 🏈 game, a sport that mauls its athletes due to brutal physical punishment. 43! Most former high school and college athletes already have a chubby belly and are full of glory days stories. If you think you’re too old for _________, may he be your inspiration. Here are more reasons to root for Brady later today:
Still, I want Tom Brady to win.
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Being an entrepreneur is itself a kind of sport 🏋️ that requires hard hustle and all kinds of stamina to succeed. If you add to that being an elite-level troll, for the best possible reasons, you pretty much get what David Hogg is trying to accomplish. Need a new pillow? Source.
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I agree that these are qualities that ought to be prioritized when appropriate. But CxD definitely disagrees that they can’t be taught.
We all start out a helpless mess. And even if we remain a mess decades later, understanding the reasons we have for our sub-optimal strategies will help us grow into new ones.
Integrity means to integrate the parts of ourselves that see the world in vastly different ways, often ones that are out of tune with present day reality. Let me know if you need help with that.
6. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
~ Ralph Emerson