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As someone who grew up in a dysfunctional home with no father figure, one of (if not my main goal) in life is to be the most present and supporting father to my son and daughter. Part of the reason I am moving to Greece is to be able to spend more time and nurture my children’s skills in sports and life in general.. Essentially I want to give them what I wish I had growing up. Be present, teach & more importantly show them the ways, learn about our cultures (Greek Maori Polish), learn how to lose and continue on, take a shot at whatever it is you want, build them up physically & mentally (which I have done from day 1) to give them the best shot at greatness in whatever field it is they pursue.
The plan for the first 18 months in Greece is to spend just about every day of the year with them and fly back to Melbourne to work roughly 10 weeks of the year and then fly back to Greece and spend the rest of the 42 weeks of the year with them. There are many motivations for my move to Greece such as change of environment, family time, work (I work 50-60 hour weeks scaffolding), mid life siesta 😂 and just the want and need for a new way of life and to live more simple rather than the rat race that I live in Melbourne. I love Melbourne but I feel it’s a young man’s city and if I’m being completely honest I have never felt at home in Melbourne despite spending nearly my whole life here. When I was a kid we would go back to New Zealand every year for 5-6 weeks and on the way back to Melbourne I would go in the bathroom or bedroom and cry because I didn’t want to go back, I felt a huge attachment to New Zealand and I also get this same feeling with Greece, I’ve spent more time there as I got older (almost every year I went to Greece since I was 18 years old). There are many motivations behind my move to Greece but none more so than being more present for my children and being hands on to guide them to take on the world with a fearlessness mindset and the physical capabilities to back it up ✌🏽
The game of life is rigged, find your lane, find your tribe and lay low
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Plus j’observe les comportements humains, plus je réalise que beaucoup de choses sont motivées par le besoin de reconnaissance. Certaines personnes achètent pour être admirées. Parlent pour être écoutées. Voyagent pour être enviées. Réussissent pour prouver quelque chose à quelqu’un. C’est étrange de construire toute son existence autour d’un public. La vraie liberté commence peut-être lorsqu’on cesse de jouer un rôle.
My ideal simple normal day -
Train in the morning.
Healthy breakfast after training with fresh OJ and a fredo cappuccino.
Beach with the fam.
Arvo sleep/siesta.
Take the kids to train/play.
Nice home cooked meal with fresh produce (even just greek salad with feta and chicken in the summer) fruit or yogurt and honey for desert.
Walk the streets and let the kids run around before bed.
This is how I envision a great but also normal day well spent when we move to Greece
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Uma das descobertas mais libertadoras da psicologia é que quase ninguém está prestando atenção em você.
Em 2000, pesquisadores de Cornell pediram que estudantes entrassem numa sala cheia vestindo uma camiseta constrangedora. Eles calcularam que metade das pessoas tinha reparado. Na verdade, foi menos de um quarto.
Os psicólogos chamaram isso de efeito holofote: você superestima o quanto os outros te observam, porque é o centro do próprio mundo, e acha que é o centro do mundo dos outros.
Pense em quantas coisas você deixou de fazer por medo de uma plateia que nunca existiu.
Os estoicos já sabiam que a opinião alheia não está sob o seu controle. A ciência só descobriu que, na maior parte do tempo, ela nem existe.
Interesting
约翰·麦卡菲被问了无数次“成功的秘诀”，终于懒得再装了。
他直接说：你不会喜欢这个答案。
许多人终其一生都在拼命努力、频繁试错、疯狂内卷，结果依然在原地打转。
不是能力不够，也不是机运未到。
因为你本质上是一个被死死拴在海底的气球。
气球生来就该向上浮。
真正把你按在深水区窒息的，不是天赋的贫瘠，而是你身上的负重：
恐惧、怨恨、失望，以及对受害者身份的执念。
这些烂绳子不斩断，你再怎么折腾，也绝不可能浮出水面。
斩断它们，你浮到顶端只是一种物理必然。
麦卡菲给出的解法极其冷酷，只有一句话：
立刻切断，绝不恋战。
伴侣惹毛你、合伙人背刺你，如果你在 10 秒钟内还无法翻篇，这局你就已经彻底输了。
因为那已经是过去。
10 秒前是过去，10 小时前是过去，10 年前同样是过去。
在这个物理世界里，过去根本不存在。
你每多愤怒一秒，都是在用现在的生命，为死掉的幽灵支付巨额租金。
停止反刍，停止怨恨，剪掉所有往下拉扯你的下坠力量。
困住你的从来不是残酷的外部世界，而是你自己死死攥着、舍不得松手的那根烂绳子。
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Yes. Former Pfizer VP (allergy/respiratory unit, left 2011) Michael Yeadon has repeatedly stated in videos that there was no pandemic and the lie enabled injecting ~5.5 billion with an intentionally dangerous substance, claiming 17 million deaths so far. The wording matches closely. His claims draw from certain excess-mortality analyses and remain heavily contested against official COVID data (~7.1 million deaths) and other evidence.
