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Stan Lee explains why making superheroes flawed made them beloved: Stan Lee spent 20 years writing conventional comic book scripts before he stumbled onto something that changed everything. He started giving his characters real, embarrassing, human problems. "We tried to make our characters have feet of clay. Now, poor... Spider-Man. I mean, okay, he's pretty good at catching bad guys, but he's apt to get an allergy attack while he's fighting. He worries about dandruff. He'll have an ingrown toenail. Tears his costume. His aunt May won't let him go out to save the world cuz he's not wearing his galashes and it's snowing out." He did it to entertain himself. "I started doing that as a gag and really to keep myself awake, you know, and I found that the readers are as crazy as I am. They started enjoying this sort of thing." After two decades of what he called "writing pap," Stan realised he could actually enjoy his own work. And the more honest and messy he made his characters, the more people connected with them. "The more realistic we make our characters, the more the college kids who read them think that it's satire, which has taught me a very great lesson. The world is so crazy that if you present things the way they really are, it comes across as broad satire." To illustrate the point, Stan compared Spider-Man to Woody Allen: "I always thought if Woody Allen were a superhero, he'd be Spider-Man." Then he proved it by describing his own evening. He arrived 4 hours early, got dinner served 5 minutes before he was called to appear, managed one mouthful of food, then raced to wait backstage for an hour. "This is what would happen to Spider-Man or to Woody Allen. It's real."show more

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Sir Lewis Hamilton in DETAIL speaking on the communication with Ricky and Ferrari ! "I think it's generally been getting better and better as Riccardo and I have been working together. He's been doing a great job, I think, particularly the last race, I think it was great." "There's been good races and races where we, afterwards we reflect and say, okay, maybe if we did it here or if we said this, but this weekend it was different. I think he was doing such a great job through the session." "I think Max popped up on the screen and said that he was on a lap and then it disappeared, and so he said, actually, he's not on the lap. So then he told me he's not on the lap, so I pulled over to the side, I was completely out of the way, and then he said, actually, he's not on the lap, so then I started to accelerate and all of a sudden he appeared. So I don't know if that's an issue with the system more than it is an issue with the communication from the team. I think he did, I think he was right to say that because of the information he got." "But, anyways. Otherwise we're just pushing, enjoying the session and driving around here. It's been, it's been amazing in the Ferrari."

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Kyle Shanahan on Curtis Robinson: “He's really worked to get better each year, and he's a very talented guy. I think when he came here, he hadn't played in a system like this for a while. It took him a little bit to kind of pick that up, but we so believed in him as a guy and his talent level that after a year, you could start to see it clicking. He became a big asset on special teams, and last year was the first time that we really believed he was going to step in there, really contribute at linebacker at a high level. It was actually kind of a sad story, but it was about 20 minutes before he tours ACL, was the first time that I told him he'd be starting that week. It was his first start in his career, and he had earned it. We were going to move him ahead of Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles at the time. I had just told Flannigan, which was tough for Flannigan, but they were so tight, so he was happy for Curtis. Then it was about 20 minutes later that Curtis tore his ACL on special teams before he even got to a defensive rep. He was so coming in there and finally about to have his moment. Then he had that setback, which I know crushed the team for him. He's one of the most liked guys on our team, as good of a person and good of a dude as I've ever been around. He's worked for this moment, and we're excited to see him get his opportunity." via: 49ers on NBCS

Kyle Shanahan on Curtis Robinson: “He's really worked to get better each year, and he's a very talented guy. I think when he came here, he hadn't played in a system like this for a while. It took him a little bit to kind of pick that up, but we so believed in him as a guy and his talent level that after a year, you could start to see it clicking. He became a big asset on special teams, and last year was the first time that we really believed he was going to step in there, really contribute at linebacker at a high level. It was actually kind of a sad story, but it was about 20 minutes before he tours ACL, was the first time that I told him he'd be starting that week. It was his first start in his career, and he had earned it. We were going to move him ahead of Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles at the time. I had just told Flannigan, which was tough for Flannigan, but they were so tight, so he was happy for Curtis. Then it was about 20 minutes later that Curtis tore his ACL on special teams before he even got to a defensive rep. He was so coming in there and finally about to have his moment. Then he had that setback, which I know crushed the team for him. He's one of the most liked guys on our team, as good of a person and good of a dude as I've ever been around. He's worked for this moment, and we're excited to see him get his opportunity." via: 49ers on NBCS

Coach Yac 🗣

16,873 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten

(about Concerto) 🔮: i'm so proud and happy that 🎭 was there. it's no secret at all that he's very hard working and that he does a lot behind the scenes and a lot of practice. 🔮: and that he's one of the most hardworking people that any of us have ever known but i don't know if you guys realize there's a lot that you don't see. 🔮: it's just really incredible, he is a true testament to seeing somebody reap what they've sown and harvesting all of the plants and fruit and crops that they have sown and planted over months and months and years of hard work and dedication. 🔮: this is just the epitome of everything, it's a combination of everything that he has worked for and done over these years. everything that he has said about how he felt. all of his feelings, thoughts and struggles and everything that he has shared already with everyone and with you guys. 🔮: it's all so real and authentic so i'm really happy and glad to see that he is getting his flowers. he's getting lots of flowers, he's getting his bouquets finally. i as his genmate, as a part of Noctyx, i can only hope to get to that same level. 🔮: it's so inspiring, isn't it? even when i have moments where i feel like i wanna give up or maybe i shouldn't work as hard, it's people like him that really give you that motivation and inspiration to keep going because everything that you do and work for will be worth it in the end. 🔮: i'm gonna make sure on my end that i can catch up to these two. i have a lot of catching up to do, don't i? 🥹🥹🥹💜🧡

(about Concerto) 🔮: i'm so proud and happy that 🎭 was there. it's no secret at all that he's very hard working and that he does a lot behind the scenes and a lot of practice. 🔮: and that he's one of the most hardworking people that any of us have ever known but i don't know if you guys realize there's a lot that you don't see. 🔮: it's just really incredible, he is a true testament to seeing somebody reap what they've sown and harvesting all of the plants and fruit and crops that they have sown and planted over months and months and years of hard work and dedication. 🔮: this is just the epitome of everything, it's a combination of everything that he has worked for and done over these years. everything that he has said about how he felt. all of his feelings, thoughts and struggles and everything that he has shared already with everyone and with you guys. 🔮: it's all so real and authentic so i'm really happy and glad to see that he is getting his flowers. he's getting lots of flowers, he's getting his bouquets finally. i as his genmate, as a part of Noctyx, i can only hope to get to that same level. 🔮: it's so inspiring, isn't it? even when i have moments where i feel like i wanna give up or maybe i shouldn't work as hard, it's people like him that really give you that motivation and inspiration to keep going because everything that you do and work for will be worth it in the end. 🔮: i'm gonna make sure on my end that i can catch up to these two. i have a lot of catching up to do, don't i? 🥹🥹🥹💜🧡

luna 🧸

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Cam'ron on if J. Cole was improperly judged for backing out from the Drake/Kendrick beef after having a conversation with him. "I think that he don't care what nobody thinks, I think as long as he's happy w/ himself, not saying he don't pay attention to what his fans are saying but I think it comes from within, before he can make anyone else happy, he has to make himself happy. If he's happy w/ his decision and then you're one of his fans and don't agree w/ his decision that's on you."

Cam'ron on if J. Cole was improperly judged for backing out from the Drake/Kendrick beef after having a conversation with him. "I think that he don't care what nobody thinks, I think as long as he's happy w/ himself, not saying he don't pay attention to what his fans are saying but I think it comes from within, before he can make anyone else happy, he has to make himself happy. If he's happy w/ his decision and then you're one of his fans and don't agree w/ his decision that's on you."

ZADCOZZY

122,685 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

Summer Mavs coach Jared Dudley shared his thoughts on what Jaden Hardy has to show to earn more playing time next season. "I'm not a head coach, but he averages, what, 15 minutes? For him to get to 25, 27 minutes, his defense has to [be there] — his awareness off-ball, being low-man, [guarding] pin-downs... It took me when I played two, three years of that, and I went to [Boston College] for four years. So by asking the guy in the fire, he's having to guard the likes of Kyrie [Irving] and Luka [Doncic], where these guys are elite. So for him, it's off-ball awareness. "And then offensively, I mean, I think he shot 40 percent on step-back 3s. So it shows you his capability, but can he make the reads? Can he make the lob pass [after reading the] low man? Can he make the corner pass? Will he let the game come to him if he's [shooting] 1-6? Is he going to shoot two more bad shots? And that's why I try to try to ease him, 'Hey, you're getting 20 shots.' All my plays are for Hardy. "And listen, we know that he has to. And so it's geared for him. But at the same time, like you have a lot of responsibility. It's not because you agree like to shoot every time. It's very similar to Luka." (📹Dallas Mavericks)

Summer Mavs coach Jared Dudley shared his thoughts on what Jaden Hardy has to show to earn more playing time next season. "I'm not a head coach, but he averages, what, 15 minutes? For him to get to 25, 27 minutes, his defense has to [be there] — his awareness off-ball, being low-man, [guarding] pin-downs... It took me when I played two, three years of that, and I went to [Boston College] for four years. So by asking the guy in the fire, he's having to guard the likes of Kyrie [Irving] and Luka [Doncic], where these guys are elite. So for him, it's off-ball awareness. "And then offensively, I mean, I think he shot 40 percent on step-back 3s. So it shows you his capability, but can he make the reads? Can he make the lob pass [after reading the] low man? Can he make the corner pass? Will he let the game come to him if he's [shooting] 1-6? Is he going to shoot two more bad shots? And that's why I try to try to ease him, 'Hey, you're getting 20 shots.' All my plays are for Hardy. "And listen, we know that he has to. And so it's geared for him. But at the same time, like you have a lot of responsibility. It's not because you agree like to shoot every time. It's very similar to Luka." (📹Dallas Mavericks)

Grant Afseth

2,328,622 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren

Beethoven could not hear the music he wrote. At the age of 28, he realized he was no longer able to listen to a flute being played in the distance, and he spent the rest of his life composing the most enduring music in Western history in almost complete silence... He had been a working musician since childhood. His ears were everything. In 1798, in the middle of a heated argument with a singer, he noticed for the first time that something was wrong. The sound was thinning at the edges. He could hear voices, but high frequencies were beginning to disappear. He told no one for years. By 1802, the truth was no longer deniable. On his doctor's advice he moved to Heiligenstadt, a quiet village outside Vienna, hoping the country air would help. It did not. There, alone and surrounded by farmland, he wrote a letter to his two brothers that he never sent. It was found among his papers after his death. We now call it the Heiligenstadt Testament, and it is one of the most devastating documents ever written by an artist about himself: "You men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the cause of my seeming so... what a humiliation, when one stood beside me and heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone heard the shepherd singing, and again I heard nothing." He wrote, in the same letter, that he had thought of ending his life. And then he wrote the line that explains everything that followed: "Only my art held me back. It seemed impossible to me to leave the world before I had produced everything I felt called upon to produce." He went back to Vienna. He went on composing. Over the next two decades his hearing continued to fade. Friends began writing their words down in small notebooks instead of speaking them aloud, and waiting while he read. Modern scholars call these the conversation books. Around four hundred of them survive. To compose, he developed his own methods. He bit one end of a wooden rod and pressed the other against the soundboard of his piano, letting the vibrations travel through his jaw to his inner ear. He had stumbled, through trial and error, onto the principle that modern science calls bone conduction. The cause of his deafness has never been settled. What we do know is this: he realized he was losing his hearing at twenty-eight, and he could have stopped. He wrote the letter, he held the thought of dying in his hand, and then he put down the pen and went back to work. Most of what he is remembered for was composed after that moment: The Fifth Symphony. The Seventh. The Ninth. The Missa Solemnis. The late quartets. All of it was made by a man who could no longer hear most of what he was writing. There are people who give the world what they receive, and there are people who give the world what they were never able to receive. The most enduring beauty in human history has almost always come from the second kind... -- -- -- If you enjoyed this, I write a weekly newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the beauty of the past. You can join us here: I write about beauty in all its forms. If you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.

Beethoven could not hear the music he wrote. At the age of 28, he realized he was no longer able to listen to a flute being played in the distance, and he spent the rest of his life composing the most enduring music in Western history in almost complete silence... He had been a working musician since childhood. His ears were everything. In 1798, in the middle of a heated argument with a singer, he noticed for the first time that something was wrong. The sound was thinning at the edges. He could hear voices, but high frequencies were beginning to disappear. He told no one for years. By 1802, the truth was no longer deniable. On his doctor's advice he moved to Heiligenstadt, a quiet village outside Vienna, hoping the country air would help. It did not. There, alone and surrounded by farmland, he wrote a letter to his two brothers that he never sent. It was found among his papers after his death. We now call it the Heiligenstadt Testament, and it is one of the most devastating documents ever written by an artist about himself: "You men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the cause of my seeming so... what a humiliation, when one stood beside me and heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone heard the shepherd singing, and again I heard nothing." He wrote, in the same letter, that he had thought of ending his life. And then he wrote the line that explains everything that followed: "Only my art held me back. It seemed impossible to me to leave the world before I had produced everything I felt called upon to produce." He went back to Vienna. He went on composing. Over the next two decades his hearing continued to fade. Friends began writing their words down in small notebooks instead of speaking them aloud, and waiting while he read. Modern scholars call these the conversation books. Around four hundred of them survive. To compose, he developed his own methods. He bit one end of a wooden rod and pressed the other against the soundboard of his piano, letting the vibrations travel through his jaw to his inner ear. He had stumbled, through trial and error, onto the principle that modern science calls bone conduction. The cause of his deafness has never been settled. What we do know is this: he realized he was losing his hearing at twenty-eight, and he could have stopped. He wrote the letter, he held the thought of dying in his hand, and then he put down the pen and went back to work. Most of what he is remembered for was composed after that moment: The Fifth Symphony. The Seventh. The Ninth. The Missa Solemnis. The late quartets. All of it was made by a man who could no longer hear most of what he was writing. There are people who give the world what they receive, and there are people who give the world what they were never able to receive. The most enduring beauty in human history has almost always come from the second kind... -- -- -- If you enjoyed this, I write a weekly newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the beauty of the past. You can join us here: I write about beauty in all its forms. If you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.

James Lucas

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🗣️ Jeff Peterson: "There is one person I want to shout out specifically, and that's Pat Connaughton. I'll be fully transparent with you guys. When we made the trade for Pat, I talked to him and I said, 'you're probably not making the team.'" "And I give him all the credit in the world because he showed up. He didn't have to be here. He could have just said, 'I'm just gonna chill in Texas with my family and figure out my next move,' but he's been with you guys every step of the way, competing." "He and Charles have had conversations. I've had conversations with him. He knows that if he plays 5 minutes or if he may not play for 20 straight games, why he's on this team is because he's about everything that we're about: Hornets DNA." "You talk about controlling controllables. Anytime his name is called, he's ready to go in the game. He's staying ready. He's busting his ass. He's a professional. So if there's any doubt at any time of what we're about, look at what he did. Because it was all in his control, in terms of his attitude, his approach, showing up every day doing what he could control, and obviously it paid off."

🗣️ Jeff Peterson: "There is one person I want to shout out specifically, and that's Pat Connaughton. I'll be fully transparent with you guys. When we made the trade for Pat, I talked to him and I said, 'you're probably not making the team.'" "And I give him all the credit in the world because he showed up. He didn't have to be here. He could have just said, 'I'm just gonna chill in Texas with my family and figure out my next move,' but he's been with you guys every step of the way, competing." "He and Charles have had conversations. I've had conversations with him. He knows that if he plays 5 minutes or if he may not play for 20 straight games, why he's on this team is because he's about everything that we're about: Hornets DNA." "You talk about controlling controllables. Anytime his name is called, he's ready to go in the game. He's staying ready. He's busting his ass. He's a professional. So if there's any doubt at any time of what we're about, look at what he did. Because it was all in his control, in terms of his attitude, his approach, showing up every day doing what he could control, and obviously it paid off."

r/CharlotteHornets

440,213 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten

Coppola had to fight to cast Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone in The Godfather. At the time, the studio saw Brando as “box office poison.” What finally sold them was his legendary screen test, where he transformed into the Don right in front of their eyes. Coppola explains: "I remember in one meeting, I was told by the then president of Paramount - "As president of Paramount Pictures, I am telling you that Marlon Brando will not appear in this motion picture." So I continued talking and arguing, and finally, they agreed to let me discuss the idea of Marlon Brando being in the movie if I honored three stipulations. A - he would do a screen test. B - he would do the film for free. (he would get a back-end deal) And C - he would put up a bond so that if any of his shenanigans or any trouble came from him being on the set, that it would guarantee the losses. So I said, - "Okay, I accept” - What could I do? I accepted these three things from Marlon. So I then called up Marlon Brando and suggested, "Maybe it’d be nice if I did like a little makeup test or something? I could come over your house." - he said to me, "All right."… We got to his house very early, and we set up our little lights. And I had brought a bunch of provolone cheese and a little Italian cigars and little props just to kind of put around - sure enough, he wakes up, and he comes out of his bedroom; and he's this great-looking, I don't know, he must have been 47, and in a Japanese robe. He looked very impressive, and I looked at him with this ponytail and I'm like, "God, how's he ever going to play a mafia chieftain?"… And he walked on. He put on a jacket, and he started mumbling - I remember, he went through great effort to bend the tip of his collar - he said, "So, like, there's a time guys always have the collar bent like that." And he picked up a cigar, and he started to gesture with it and use it as a prop, and he nibbled on a little bit of provolone cheese - and he rolled up the ponytail, and he kind of pinned it up, and he took some shoe polish, and he darkened it, and while he's doing this, we're photographing… He took some tissue paper, and he said, "He should have the face of a bulldog."...He stuffed the tissue paper in his jaw, and then he said, "Well, if he's shot in the throat, he ought to have to talk like that a little bit." It really was a transformation of this nice looking young man with a blonde ponytail, into this kind of mafia guy… I took it to New York, and I went to Mr. Bluthorn's office (head of Paramount Pictures), and I said, "Oh, Charlie, Charlie, I want to show you something." - I flick the video, and sure enough, there's Marlon Brando coming out in a robe with a blonde ponytail, and he looks, and he says, "Never! Marlon Brando, never! Never!" And as he's doing that, he's watching Brando turn himself into this guy, and Charlie just looks astounded, and he says, "That's incredible! That's incredible!" And once he was sold on the idea that Marlon could do it on his authority, they allowed us to do it."

Coppola had to fight to cast Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone in The Godfather. At the time, the studio saw Brando as “box office poison.” What finally sold them was his legendary screen test, where he transformed into the Don right in front of their eyes. Coppola explains: "I remember in one meeting, I was told by the then president of Paramount - "As president of Paramount Pictures, I am telling you that Marlon Brando will not appear in this motion picture." So I continued talking and arguing, and finally, they agreed to let me discuss the idea of Marlon Brando being in the movie if I honored three stipulations. A - he would do a screen test. B - he would do the film for free. (he would get a back-end deal) And C - he would put up a bond so that if any of his shenanigans or any trouble came from him being on the set, that it would guarantee the losses. So I said, - "Okay, I accept” - What could I do? I accepted these three things from Marlon. So I then called up Marlon Brando and suggested, "Maybe it’d be nice if I did like a little makeup test or something? I could come over your house." - he said to me, "All right."… We got to his house very early, and we set up our little lights. And I had brought a bunch of provolone cheese and a little Italian cigars and little props just to kind of put around - sure enough, he wakes up, and he comes out of his bedroom; and he's this great-looking, I don't know, he must have been 47, and in a Japanese robe. He looked very impressive, and I looked at him with this ponytail and I'm like, "God, how's he ever going to play a mafia chieftain?"… And he walked on. He put on a jacket, and he started mumbling - I remember, he went through great effort to bend the tip of his collar - he said, "So, like, there's a time guys always have the collar bent like that." And he picked up a cigar, and he started to gesture with it and use it as a prop, and he nibbled on a little bit of provolone cheese - and he rolled up the ponytail, and he kind of pinned it up, and he took some shoe polish, and he darkened it, and while he's doing this, we're photographing… He took some tissue paper, and he said, "He should have the face of a bulldog."...He stuffed the tissue paper in his jaw, and then he said, "Well, if he's shot in the throat, he ought to have to talk like that a little bit." It really was a transformation of this nice looking young man with a blonde ponytail, into this kind of mafia guy… I took it to New York, and I went to Mr. Bluthorn's office (head of Paramount Pictures), and I said, "Oh, Charlie, Charlie, I want to show you something." - I flick the video, and sure enough, there's Marlon Brando coming out in a robe with a blonde ponytail, and he looks, and he says, "Never! Marlon Brando, never! Never!" And as he's doing that, he's watching Brando turn himself into this guy, and Charlie just looks astounded, and he says, "That's incredible! That's incredible!" And once he was sold on the idea that Marlon could do it on his authority, they allowed us to do it."

Gangster Cinema Central

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🎥| “Oh, he's great, he's great (Freddie). I like... I'll play him like a couple. You know what it's like? he's nine. So, like you get the attention span for maybe two songs, six minutes, and he's into it and then I know, you know he's had enough. [Interviewer: Does he like music?] Yeah , he's definitely started like I've definitely noticed him like, you know, singing and like humming to himself little bit more. I'm encourage... I'm trying to encourage him to play guitar. I think he is up for it. But yeah, at that age you just you want to time that perfectly cuz I can remember being a young lad and if someone put a guitar in my hand at the wrong age... But also you got to be a old enough to understand that it's really cool to play the guitar. So yeah, we we'll get there. But he's doing great. [Interviewer: Does he go to some of the shows?] He'll... he normally comes to the LA show which is always that's a real tough one for me cuz it's like all I want to do is a be dad and then it's a real justosition but it's emotional. He brings his own signs, makes his own signs and stuff like yeah dead dead sweet.” ❤️ — Louis Tomlinson talking about his son Freddie in an interview with iHeartRadio!

🎥| “Oh, he's great, he's great (Freddie). I like... I'll play him like a couple. You know what it's like? he's nine. So, like you get the attention span for maybe two songs, six minutes, and he's into it and then I know, you know he's had enough. [Interviewer: Does he like music?] Yeah , he's definitely started like I've definitely noticed him like, you know, singing and like humming to himself little bit more. I'm encourage... I'm trying to encourage him to play guitar. I think he is up for it. But yeah, at that age you just you want to time that perfectly cuz I can remember being a young lad and if someone put a guitar in my hand at the wrong age... But also you got to be a old enough to understand that it's really cool to play the guitar. So yeah, we we'll get there. But he's doing great. [Interviewer: Does he go to some of the shows?] He'll... he normally comes to the LA show which is always that's a real tough one for me cuz it's like all I want to do is a be dad and then it's a real justosition but it's emotional. He brings his own signs, makes his own signs and stuff like yeah dead dead sweet.” ❤️ — Louis Tomlinson talking about his son Freddie in an interview with iHeartRadio!

World Tomlinson

127,643 Aufrufe • vor 9 Monaten

CNBC's Squawk Box discussed Elon Musk's Tesla compensation package when it was first announced in January 2018: Ray Dalio: "I think it's fabulous. The man is Tesla. I mean, it's his dream. He built the dream... The question is, what are his incentives? ...I think it ties them together." Andrew Ross Sorkin: "This is the ultimate skin in the game... I would argue it's about as shareholder-friendly as you'd get." Jim Cramer: "I didn't like it. I loved it. Because you know what? I would double what he gets if he makes that much money for people. And I wish that everyone would take that. I know there was a discussion. I thought that was a great piece. Holy cow. Because what it really did present you was here's a man of conviction." Andrew Ross Sorkin: "I asked him what do you need this money for? Because he always says he's not incentivized by money. And his answer was, he said, 'Look, I want to help humanity pursue this multi-planetary system. Meaning he wants us all to live on Mars. And he said that requires a certain amount of capital. And for his sake, if it works, it may go towards that, which may go towards all of us." Elon Musk

CNBC's Squawk Box discussed Elon Musk's Tesla compensation package when it was first announced in January 2018: Ray Dalio: "I think it's fabulous. The man is Tesla. I mean, it's his dream. He built the dream... The question is, what are his incentives? ...I think it ties them together." Andrew Ross Sorkin: "This is the ultimate skin in the game... I would argue it's about as shareholder-friendly as you'd get." Jim Cramer: "I didn't like it. I loved it. Because you know what? I would double what he gets if he makes that much money for people. And I wish that everyone would take that. I know there was a discussion. I thought that was a great piece. Holy cow. Because what it really did present you was here's a man of conviction." Andrew Ross Sorkin: "I asked him what do you need this money for? Because he always says he's not incentivized by money. And his answer was, he said, 'Look, I want to help humanity pursue this multi-planetary system. Meaning he wants us all to live on Mars. And he said that requires a certain amount of capital. And for his sake, if it works, it may go towards that, which may go towards all of us." Elon Musk

KanekoaTheGreat

2,542,540 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

🚨Naval Ravikant on Elon Musk: "Elon is the real deal. There's a story I read about him that affected me. Bill Gates had just taken out a big short on Tesla and Elon said 'Why would you do that?' Bill said he spoke to his financial advisors and they said it made sense. Elon said 'What do you need money for? I thought you cared about climate, etc. What are you doing?' and then he walked away in disgust and never talked to Bill Gates after that. Elon's a purist, he means what he says. The money is a tool for him to do what he wants to do. I take him at face value. I really believe he intends to get to Mars, that's not a joke. And he means to get there within a defined window of time. I don't think that's an inspirational goal, I think he'll do whatever it takes. Elon doesn't want to go down in history as the electric car guy, or the 'I saved America' guy, he wants to go down as the guy who got humanity to the stars. I don't even think he even wants to be known as that, I think he actually just wants to do it because he wants to do it. The only way he gets to experience the science fiction world in his head is if he gets to the stars. I think the Government was just a thing that got in his way, and he needs to get it out of his way so he can go to the stars."

🚨Naval Ravikant on Elon Musk: "Elon is the real deal. There's a story I read about him that affected me. Bill Gates had just taken out a big short on Tesla and Elon said 'Why would you do that?' Bill said he spoke to his financial advisors and they said it made sense. Elon said 'What do you need money for? I thought you cared about climate, etc. What are you doing?' and then he walked away in disgust and never talked to Bill Gates after that. Elon's a purist, he means what he says. The money is a tool for him to do what he wants to do. I take him at face value. I really believe he intends to get to Mars, that's not a joke. And he means to get there within a defined window of time. I don't think that's an inspirational goal, I think he'll do whatever it takes. Elon doesn't want to go down in history as the electric car guy, or the 'I saved America' guy, he wants to go down as the guy who got humanity to the stars. I don't even think he even wants to be known as that, I think he actually just wants to do it because he wants to do it. The only way he gets to experience the science fiction world in his head is if he gets to the stars. I think the Government was just a thing that got in his way, and he needs to get it out of his way so he can go to the stars."

Autism Capital 🧩

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This part of The Neverending Story is more devastating as a metaphor for 2025 then it ever was when I was a kid. Atreyu tries to tell his horse Artax how the swamps are. That the sadness isn't real. That he's letting it get to him. Atreyu begs Artax to get out of it, if not for himself then his friend — to no avail. Time passes. Finally Atreyu looks up and Artax is gone. He gave in to the illusion. Atreyu did everything he could think of, he begged, he cried, he screamed, but in the end he couldn't save his friend because he refused to save himself. This is one of the hardest lessons to learn in life. Ever.

This part of The Neverending Story is more devastating as a metaphor for 2025 then it ever was when I was a kid. Atreyu tries to tell his horse Artax how the swamps are. That the sadness isn't real. That he's letting it get to him. Atreyu begs Artax to get out of it, if not for himself then his friend — to no avail. Time passes. Finally Atreyu looks up and Artax is gone. He gave in to the illusion. Atreyu did everything he could think of, he begged, he cried, he screamed, but in the end he couldn't save his friend because he refused to save himself. This is one of the hardest lessons to learn in life. Ever.

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#WATCH | Washington, DC: US President Donald Trump says, "He's (Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy) got to say, I want to make peace. He doesn't have to stand there and say about Putin this, Putin that, and all negative things. He's got to say, I want to make peace. I don't want to fight a war any longer, his people are dying. He doesn't have the cards...I don't trust or distrust anybody. I just want to get a deal done and if the deal happens, good. But you can't embolden somebody that does not have the cards...We are not going to keep fighting. We are going to get the war done or let them go and see what happens. Let them fight it out...I want anybody that's going to make peace, if he is capable of making peace, which he may or may not be, but I want somebody that's going to make peace again. He doesn't have the cards. When we sign up, he's got all of the cards, that doesn't mean he can fight. He's got to stop the fighting, stop the death. He is losing hundreds of thousands of soldiers. It's time to stop the death." (Source: Reuters)

#WATCH | Washington, DC: US President Donald Trump says, "He's (Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy) got to say, I want to make peace. He doesn't have to stand there and say about Putin this, Putin that, and all negative things. He's got to say, I want to make peace. I don't want to fight a war any longer, his people are dying. He doesn't have the cards...I don't trust or distrust anybody. I just want to get a deal done and if the deal happens, good. But you can't embolden somebody that does not have the cards...We are not going to keep fighting. We are going to get the war done or let them go and see what happens. Let them fight it out...I want anybody that's going to make peace, if he is capable of making peace, which he may or may not be, but I want somebody that's going to make peace again. He doesn't have the cards. When we sign up, he's got all of the cards, that doesn't mean he can fight. He's got to stop the fighting, stop the death. He is losing hundreds of thousands of soldiers. It's time to stop the death." (Source: Reuters)

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