The 9 rules every Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoon had to follow
The list comes from the 1999 autobiography of former Looney Tunes animation director and Chuck Jones, Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist
You Might Like
The Daily Man-Up
(photo: @pitoutch)
Success Isn’t A Mountain. It’s An Eternal Struggle
The struggle, the pain, the excruciating process has to be your goal because the goal doesn’t sharpen you, it finishes you.
The metaphor of the road to success being a mountain isn’t right.
There is no end. Thinking that there is takes you away from that thing that’s sharpening you, strengthening you, making you tougher, and that thing is the grind, it’s the process, it’s the minutia and the struggle of a life that’s ambitious.
To expect the grind to dissipate is to desire and end to that thing that makes you better. To rest on top of a mountain and to think you’re done is to finish life, it’s to give up or give in.
Linkage
Everything You Already Forgot About 2020: Aliens, coronavirus porn, 5G conspiracies, “Imagine,” and other stuff you immediately wiped from your brain – VICE
Attnetion Audiophiles! One of the best sounding desktop/bookshelf speakers are 50% off! – Amazon
World Happiness Report: Author Explains Why the US Can’t Crack the Top 10 – Inverse
Misinformation Has Created a New World Disorder – Scientific American
Government Model Suggests U.S. COVID-19 Cases Could Be Approaching 100 Million – NPR
How to Be Thankful For Your Life by Changing Just One Word – James Clear
Worried About a Difficult Conversation? Here’s Advice From a Hostage Negotiator – WSJ
Suspected Iranian nuclear mastermind Fakhrizadeh assassinated near Tehran – Reuters
Five Questions Productive People Ask Themselves to Stay Focused – INC
“Holy Grail” Metallic Hydrogen Is Going to Change Everything – Inverse
Sidney Powell’s ‘Release the Kraken’ Lawsuits Are a Real Mess – Newsweek
The best selling electric toothbrush with over 33,000 reviews is 57% off – Amazon
Ever Wonder What That Extra Shoelace Hole Is For? – Leenks
Top 10 Surprising Facts About Working At Google – Listverse
Gina Stewart Is The Worls’s Hottest Grandma! – Pop Wrecked
Five Lies You’ve Been Told About Sales – Mel Magazine
Can You Find All of Kevin McCallister’s Booby Traps From Home Alone? – McCallister House
Old Lady VS Storm and Other Videos of the Day – Drunken Stepfather
How Magic Mushrooms Are Changing the Lives of Terminal Cancer Patients – The Tyee
Dude Catches His Baby Mama Cheating With Another At An Arizona Restaurant! – Worldstar
Which startups have seen the biggest valuation gain in 2020? – The Hustle
Halle Berry, Margot Robbie and Other Random Women – G-Celeb
An Artist Shows Us How Some Disney Characters Would Look If They Were Real People – Bright Side
The 50 Best Fantasy Books of the 21st Century (So Far) – Paste
A Definitive Ranking of Fast-Food French Fries – First We Feast
The Dumping Grounds
You Might Like
The Absolute Best Black Friday Deals On Amazon
A Few Photos To Remind You That Life Is Beautiful
Grandma Celebrates 5th Thanksgiving With Man She Accidentally Invited To Dinner
What started as an accident has turned into a sweet holiday tradition.
Four years ago, an Arizona woman accidentally invited a teenage stranger to her Thanksgiving dinner via text message. Ever since, they’ve celebrated the holiday together.
This year was no exception, however there was an empty seat at the table.
Wanda Dench’s husband of 43 years, Lonnie, died away in April from complications caused by COVID-19.
“I wasn’t looking forward to it at first because Lonnie wasn’t going to be there," "The past seven months have been so difficult, but this was really important to me.”
[Read more…] about Grandma Celebrates 5th Thanksgiving With Man She Accidentally Invited To Dinner
What Do The Wealthiest People Know That Others Don’t?
That big money is served in small increments. Whether that’s return on investments, profits, margins on products you’re selling, whatever. People who don’t understand this are always trying to double or quintuple their money in as few transactions as possible, while the largest and most successful companies and people in the world win by making “small money” over and over again.
[Read more…] about What Do The Wealthiest People Know That Others Don’t?
Picture of the Day
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern greets Maori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi before sworn in 53rd Parliament
The ‘Hongi’ is a traditional Maori greeting in New Zealand used by the Maori people. To hongi you press your nose and forehead together with the nose and forehead of the person you are greeting. Many people of Maori decent prefer to hongi, instead of shaking hands.
The origins of the hongi can be traced back in Maori folklore to the creation of mankind. The first woman created by the gods was Hineahuone, “earth formed woman” so called as she was shaped out of the earth. The god Tane embraced Hineahuone and breathed life into her nostrils.
When Māori greet one another by pressing noses, the tradition of sharing the breath of life is considered to have come directly from the gods. Through the exchange of this physical greeting, one is no longer considered manuhiri (“a visitor”) but rather tangata whenua, “one of the people of the land”.
The Daily Man-Up
(photo: @timmarshall)
It Would Be A Tragedy To Never Face Adversity In Life
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. for he is not permitted to prove himself. ~ Seneca
In our society, it’s the man who is born into wealth who is viewed as being blessed with a gift that he did not have to earn. But it is the man born into much adversity who is given the greatest gift of all: the gift to test his mettle, to prove his worth, to see what he is, indeed, made of.
It’s while this man is facing obstacle after obstacle that, if he so chooses, will acquire far more grit and toughness than his counterpart who’s faced little in the way of tribulation.