When you read what the most successful coaches tell their teams about how to win, you’ll hear the same basic things over and over again ad nauseam. Sure, maybe one of them will toss in a funny anecdote and another one will phrase it slightly differently, but if you want to know what the best coaches tell the best athletes about how they become champions, what you are about to read is it. Now, you may not want to be a Super Bowl Champion or win a World Series, but everybody has things they want to be good at. Listen to what these coaches are saying and follow their advice, and you will go further than you ever thought you could. 1) “If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out.” —…Open
Aaron Prager and PragerU CEO Marissa Streit discuss the crisis facing young men, the rise of figures like Andrew and Tristan Tate, and why fake masculinity often disguises victimhood as personal responsibility. Drawing from his own journey through addiction and recovery, Aaron explains why real growth requires accountability, struggle, faith, ambition, and the refusal to blame others for your problems. They also discuss why young men are drawn to online communities that offer shortcuts and what parents can do to raise sons who are strong, responsible, and hopeful. 00:00 Aaron Prager on Recovery and Responsibility 04:12 Responsibility vs. Accountability 07:10 Growing Up with Dennis Prager’s Values 11:00 How Parents Can Reach Struggling…
If we could ask men and women from all different periods of human history what the point of getting married was, many of us might be surprised at how different their answers would be from the ones we’d give today.
We might hear things like: * “My family needs the dowry.” * “How else am I going to get sex?” * “Marrying a man is the only way to support myself and my children.” * “Taking care of a household is a full-time job, and I can’t do it alone.” * “I have to get married to produce legitimate heirs.” * “It’s wrong to have sex outside of marriage.” * “If I had a child outside of marriage, they’d be a bastard, and I wouldn’t want the stigma for my child or me.” * “We need to join our families together.” * “There’s something wrong with people that don’t get married.” * “Having children inside of marriage is the only way to continue the family name.” * “A man and a woman working together and…Open
He was an NCAA Division I champ, went to the Olympics, was a champion in both Bellator and ONE, competed in the UFC at the end of his career, and capped off all of that by losing BOTH OF HIS LUNGS, getting a DOUBLE LUNG TRANSPLANT, and coming back for one more wrestling match after that: Does this mean Askren won every fight? Not at all. In fact, later in his career, he had a couple of particularly humiliating defeats. He lost to Jake Paul in a boxing match early in his career, back when pretty much nobody realized Paul had at least SOME SKILLS as a boxer: Worse yet, Askren was on the receiving end of one of the most iconic knockouts in UFC history. A brutal flying knee from Jorge Masvidal right at the beginning of the fight. It set a…Open
Everyone has different rules, mental shortcuts, habitual behaviors, and expectations for how things will play out when they’re around other humans.
These are mine, and unfortunately, I had to learn some of them the hard way. Hopefully, as you read over these, you’ll see a few that you can add to your own personal code. 1) The opinions of people online who aren’t your friends or someone you respect don’t matter very much. They certainly should never be allowed to impact your mood negatively. 2) If you genuinely screwed up, apologize unless you’re dealing with an online mob. You never apologize to the mob. 3) If you’re under 30 and not a stone-cold expert in something I’m asking you about, I do not need your advice. 4) Put the shopping cart back. Rack the weights. Pick up your dog’s sh*t. 5) Doing or saying something dumb in response to something dumb does not make you…Open
One of the biggest problems most people have is that they ask the wrong questions about their life.
Guess what happens when you ask the wrong questions? You spend a lot of time trying to figure out the answers to things that don’t matter or that you shouldn’t be thinking about in the first place. That’s because if you try to ask your brain a question, it will try to come up with an answer, and some of those answers may be irrelevant, very damaging, or even put you in a no-win situation. For example, should you be asking yourself, “Why am I always such a loser?” No, because even if you’re the most successful person on earth, when you ask yourself a question like that, your brain will try to ANSWER YOUR QUESTION. You want your brain to focus on questions that will help you build a better life for yourself, not questions that…Open
The wife of a U.S. Navy sailor who jumped from the USS Lincoln revealed to MS NOW that the Navy is punishing her husband for what she says was an attempt to die by suicide. MS NOW Pentagon reporter Priya Sridhar joins The Weeknight with her new reporting.
John Mazzei, a 57-year-old ballroom-dance instructor from Lindenhurst, New York, has completed six marathons without shoes or socks, drawing stares from cops, cheers from strangers, and a good-luck autograph on his foot from a champion runner. Mazzei didn't start running until he was about 43. Within three months, conventional sneakers had wrecked his knees badly […] The post Long Island dance instructor has run six marathons barefoot — and now he wants Boston appeared first on American Almanac .
John Mazzei, a 57-year-old ballroom-dance instructor from Lindenhurst, New York, has completed six marathons without shoes or socks, drawing stares from cops, cheers from strangers, and a good-luck autograph on his foot from a champion runner. Mazzei didn't start running until he was about 43. Within three months, conventional sneakers had wrecked his knees badly enough to sideline him. He quit, and stayed away for years, until he picked up Christopher McDougall's Born to Run, a book that examines the sports science behind shoeless running. That changed everything. Mazzei ditched the sneakers for good, started conditioning his bare feet on the streets of his Long Island neighborhood, and worked his way up from short distances to a 5K and…Open
There is broad consensus among psychologists that corporal punishment can be harmful to children, but the U.S. has no federal laws banning it in public schools.
Empowering educators to take back their classrooms is a necessary solution for the school behavioral violence the Obama administration's race-based discipline policies ushered in.
