"I've got a hole in one" he cried, reviewing his odd sock collection. XTC, West Coast/Torrens Eagles and golf. Chronicling joys and disappointments.
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Wow some stars in this advert ! Can’t remember the advert? From the 90s I guess ! #memory #nostalgia
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Anna Lembke es la psiquiatra de Stanford que demostró que vivir sin dolor ni aburrimiento es la causa real depresión y ansiedad
Reveló 6 hábitos que haces todos los días y que están destruyendo tu cerebro: ↓↓
1. Coger el móvil cada vez que sientes la más mínima incomodidad
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A serious country does not leave critical fuel infrastructure sitting behind cyclone fences and weak cyber and physical security. Ours does. We posture about net zero, export the carbon anyway, and leave the real economy exposed to disruption, sabotage and self-inflicted fragility. It's not a strategy. It is base negligence.
The Australian mining industry is now on the verge of collapse due to diesel shortages.
One of the country’s last two refineries is in flames, and the fuel supply chain that powers every drill, truck, and haul is about to snap.
This isn’t an isolated incident. It’s the inevitable result of years of policy choices colliding with reality.
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Everyone needs to hear this...
Michael Caine on his defining philosophy for life:
Use the Difficulty
As a young actor, he was rehearsing a play when a chair got stuck in the door and blocked his path. He told the other actor he couldn't get by the chair to enter the scene.
The actor's response:
"Use the difficulty...if it's a comedy, fall over it, if it's a drama, pick it up and smash it."
This idea became a defining mantra for his life.
"There's never anything so bad that you cannot use that difficulty...if you can use it a quarter of one percent to your advantage, you're ahead, you didn't let it get you down."
I can't stop thinking about this...
How can you use the difficulty you're currently facing? How can you embrace the struggle? How can you find flow through the friction?
As with everything in life, control the controllable:
The difficulty is already there. You can't control it. But you can control how you react to it. You can control your response to it. You can control your attitude towards it.
Lesson: Difficulty is inevitable. Use it.
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🚨Donald Trump is going to try and steal the US elections, and this is how he’s going to do it🚨
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Bruce Springsteen on Trump: “I couldn't care less what he thinks about me. He's the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he'd be consigned to the trash heap of history."
RETWEET if you stand with @Springsteen!
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Golf is, and can be, many things. One of the most significant roles it can play is as a therapy meeting place. A place for heading back towards a calm, functional equilibrium
@KVanValkenburg does a great job putting that into words
Worth a read
@PBauldy
thefriedegg.com/articles/in-…
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“I feel sorry for rich kids now. I really do, because they’re never going to have the opportunity I had. Because I know tough things, and I had a tough day all my life, and I can handle tough things. They can’t. And every day that I progressed was a joy for me, and I recognized that.”
- Ben Hogan (1983) -
Read the full story here -> bit.ly/4pcyezx
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1/x It’s human nature to look @ a trend & extrapolate it into the future. We’re pattern recognition machines...& a 2 generation long (40 yr) trend’s ~impossible for collective psychology to imagine turning. But extrapolating a growth trend w/out understanding its causes is folly.
I asked Cathie about why she keeps making extremely high return predictions and about her compliance person. Starts at 1:20. (This was the q ppl most wanted asked). $ARKK #ETFIQ @exchangeETF
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Gambling Industry Targeting Aussie Kids—600,000 Teens Drawn In thenightly.com.au/australia/…
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"There are people in the room who've been harmed by gambling, by the gambling industry, and family members and loved ones who've been in that position. You know exactly what that feels like, where they find themselves completely compelled to continue to do something which is entirely against their best interest." - Dr Matt Gaskell
#10YearsOfGamban
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BREAKING: trump is having a temper tantrum, ending ALL trade negotiations with Canada.
He's butthurt that they aired an ad of President Reagan that shows how dumb trump's tariffs are.
It's VERY effective.
Be a shame if it went viral. 🇺🇲🇨🇦
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For a half-century, Bruce Springsteen’s job has been unlike any other. He has released 21 albums, collecting 20 Grammys, an Oscar, a Tony, the Kennedy Center Honors, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He’s written a best-selling memoir and sold more than 150 million records worldwide.
But the story of Springsteen is more than the scale of his success. He occupies a rarefied place in American life, maintaining an authenticity rare for a performer of his reach, even as he grapples with the contradictions of his existence. Springsteen is a tribune for the working class who became fabulously rich; a restless outsider who is a rooted family man; and the rock star who has seemingly everything but still wrestles with shadows he cannot shake.
Now Springsteen, 76, has undertaken another daring move: surrendering control to a team of filmmakers to tell the story of the most vulnerable period of his life. Deliver Me From Nowhere, in theaters Oct. 24, chronicles the making of Nebraska, his 1982 acoustic masterpiece. Jeremy Allen White plays Springsteen; Jeremy Strong portrays his longtime manager Jon Landau. The film captures a sliver of his early 30s, when he was battling his first bout of serious depression, and eventually seeking therapy—a step Springsteen credits with saving his life. “It could have gone in a lot of different directions,” he says.
Fifty years after Born to Run, he may be associated with getting out, but his life has been defined by sticking around. “What I worked very hard on was not running, but on standing, on making your life choices, and then standing with and for them,” he says. “That’s been my theme since that record.”
If the heroes of Born to Run found their glory in flight, Springsteen has since offered the counter-vision: that to stay put, to face your own demons head on, is its own form of heroism.
Read the full cover story here: time.com/7319963/bruce-sprin…
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Rick Rescorla was the director of security for Morgan Stanley. His preparation and relentless drilling of evacuation techniques (due to his strong suspicion that the WTC was a target for terrorism since 1988) resulted in nearly all of MS’ employees being successfully evacuated.
When AA11 struck WTC1, the port authority made announcements urging people to stay at their desks. Rick ignored the announcement, got on his bullhorn and began the process of evacuating MS’ 2700 employees. In a call to his best friend Dan Hill, he relayed,
“The dumb sons of bitches told me not to evacuate. They said it's just Building One. I told them I'm getting my people the fuck out of here."
During his tour of duty in Vietnam, Rescorla had boosted morale among his men by singing Cornish songs from his youth. He did the same in the stairwells of the world trade center, directing people down stairwells and away from elevators while singing:
“Men of Cornwall stand ye steady;
It cannot be ever said ye
for the battle were not ready;
Stand and never yield!”
Between songs, after successfully evacuating almost all of the 2700 employees, he called his wife Susan and told her,
“Stop crying. I have to get these people out safely. If something should happen to me, I want you to know I've never been happier. You made my life.”
Susan replied, "You made my life, too”.
Despite successfully evacuating everyone, Rescorla then went back into the building to continue getting everyone out. When the message came through on his walkie-talkie that he, too, had to evacuate he said, simply, “As soon as I make sure everyone else is out.”
Rick was last seen heading up the stairs of the South Tower on the 10th floor, shortly before the collapse. Just 13 of Morgan Stanley’s 2700 employees at WTC perished on 9/11 - Including Rick and his deputies Wesley Mercer, Jorge Velazquez and Godwin Forde who all went back into the building to help anyone who needed it.
We don’t all need to be heroes, defying death with Cornish battle songs and saving thousands of innocent people. But if we could all internalize just a small portion of the sense of duty, preparedness and selflessness that Rick possessed, the world would be a much better place. I share this story on each anniversary with the hopes it gets us just a little bit closer to that.
