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🚨🚨🎙️| Harry Kane delivers an emotional tribute to his parents, wife and children after winning the 2026 Ballon d’Or! ❤️🏆
To his mum and dad:
“What a moment. All those years, the sacrifice you gave me, the support you gave me, the times taking me to training, coming to watch me play, all around England, all around Germany, no matter where it was, even to this day you're there.”
“There was never any pressure from you to become a footballer. It was always about working hard, it was always about improving, it was always about learning.”
“I love you. Thank you very much.”
To his children:
“To Ivy, Vivian, Louis and Henry, you're the reason I do this.”
“I want to set a good example, being a father, but also being a professional and what it means to work hard, what it means to believe in yourself. I love you very much.”
To his wife Katie:
“My best friend. We've been through ups and downs, for sure. You're my biggest supporter.”
“Here it is. We've done it. You've always done the best for me. You sacrificed yourself to help me achieve my dreams.”
“This is a trophy that we celebrate, not me. It's me and you. It's all the family.”
“I love you.” ❤️
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Scientists once put 10-year-olds through an all-out cycling test next to well-trained adult endurance athletes. The kids fatigued at the same rate as the athletes, and they recovered as fast or faster.
That goes a long way toward explaining why a toddler can do laps around the kitchen for an hour while you get winded carrying him up the stairs.
Adults doing hard exercise lean on anaerobic energy, which is powerful but floods the muscle with lactate and acid. Kids' muscles lean far more on oxygen. They produce less lactate and clear what they do make quickly, the same profile you find in someone who spent years training to build it.
The 2018 study in Frontiers in Physiology compared 12 boys, 12 untrained men, and 13 endurance athletes. The untrained men faded the most. The boys and the athletes landed close together.
A kid recovers from hard exercise like a trained endurance athlete, with zero training.
Puberty starts shifting that balance. Growing muscles add the fast-twitch, glycolytic capacity that gives adults power and speed, and the tireless aerobic profile fades in the trade.
Every adult watching from the couch used to have one.
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My Nigerian mother and my English father modelled hard work in a way that I never understood growing up.
My dad worked a full time job late into the evening and when his work was done, he would go and join my mum at her job in a small, hot, fast-paced restaurant kitchen until the early hours of the morning.
They came home when I was asleep and went to work when I was asleep.
When my mum left the restaurant, she opened a corner shop called KJS and would work all day and all night.
She would end up sleeping in the back room of the corner shop on a bag of rice because local kids would break in, steal things and vandalise the shop because she was pretty much the only black women in the area.
My dad again, would finish his full time job, and go straight to my mum’s shop and help her until late into the night.
The most remarkable part of this, isn’t just the fact that they worked 7-days a week to provide for their family.
It was their attitude towards their work.
They never ever described or viewed what they did as hard work.
I never ever heard them complain even once about "working hard".
They seemed to view work as the ultimate privilege, honour and opportunity.
The older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve realised that they were my biggest professional inspirations and influence - not because they gave me profound advice like some parents do, but because they set a profound example without needing to say a word - one that has enabled me to pursue my own dreams with a level of focused gratitude that I wouldn't have had otherwise.
"My parents were tasked with the job of survival and I with self-actualisation. What a luxury it is to search for purpose, meaning, and fulfilment." - Bo Ren
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Check this out😇 I’m proud that we have been able to inspire many to teach SUBJECTS in Yoruba🔥
#teachinyoruba🧡📌
This is me! Haaa
I have no sense of occasion. When I got my Masters in the UK, I totally forgot to go for the graduation. It was a few days to my wedding.
When I got my PhD in the Netherlands, I just went with Madam to collect the large cardboard and went straight back to work. No party or anything.
When I was appointed DG of BPSR, I had worked for 3 months before the government even announced the appointment. No newspaper congratulations or thanksgiving in church.
When I finished being DG too, I just moved on to the next job. No drama. I didn’t even have “former DG” on my profile.
When I was given the National Honour of OON, I wasn’t even aware for like 6 months. When they called and asked whether I didn’t want to collect it, I just left a meeting, went to collect it and rejoined the meeting.🙈 No celebration, nothing.
When I was appointed a Visiting Fellow of Practice at Oxford University, same thing o. No celebrations or anything.
Having been appointed Professor of Practice by Miva Open University today, I just went to collect the academic regalia and plaque and came back home. I even left all the others there. 🙈
Apart from birthdays and wedding anniversaries (which Madam organises), I am always on to the next thing. Don’t you think it’s a character weakness?
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I rang the first bell 🔔
@propellaschools is live
The first free school of @cci_global is live
We have started with about 80 students
Help me thank everyone who worked tirelessly to make this happen
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Coffee naps are the best productivity hack on Earth.
They "rewire" your brain to fix brain fog, dopamine, and focus.
They're literally a portal to flow state.
Here's what they are, why they work, & how to do one: 🧵
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Sleep clears adenosine from the brain.
Which is why we feel refreshed and alert after a good sleep.
Huberman explains how this works:
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Your body uses adenosine triphosphate (ATP) for energy.
As the day goes on, adenosine builds up and makes your neurons fire less often - which is why you feel tired.
Here's how caffeine fixes that:
