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19 Jun, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Losing is short-term and winning is long-term if you zoom out enough.

Every battle lost teaches me where I'm weak and I can put my efforts into improving.

Thanks to every enemy and misfortune I ever suffered. Without them I would be so much less.
Rush to meet defeat now so that you may hasten the time it takes to overcome and transcend it and tackle grander challenges.

I had to crawl to walk and walk to run.

Why are you so afraid to fall a few times? Image
"Barkley didn't get a ring! Ha! He was a loser!"

He grew up as a little fat kid in the South. As an undersized Power Forward he led the nba in true shooting percentage for four seasons straight.

He was the leading rebounder at 14.6 rpg at 23.
That you expect him to win a team trophy to prove his success shows your own double standards. He won a thousand battles to reach the point where you ignored all of his victories to look for the area he has the least control and declare him a failure.
Would that we could all be 6.6 Power Forwards leaping over giants for the ball, scoring at will against the games best and becoming so good we're expected to accomplish literally everything possible.

This tweet was not about basketball.

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More from @Thorin

22 Jun
I grew up as a little autistic kid in the North East of England wearing hand-me-down clothes.

There was no esports for hundreds of miles from me when it began and the dot com bubble had burst and tanked all the early industry. I was told I'd missed "it".
Once I got them to send me to London I had to get them to send me to the US over hiring Americans who were already there.

I went to that event, my first on a plane, with something like $50 wiggle room for anything to go wrong. Madness when I look back now.
I put in a lot of effort and I could get a few ideas out through my sloppy and cliche-riddled writing, a subject I had never focused on in school or as a hobby.

I also always followed my curiosity about what I wanted to know in an interview.
Read 23 tweets
21 Jun
Imagine working this event and then trying to lecture others online about your politics and what good behaviour is. Image
Check the event date and time-stamps. Some people are just shameless.

archive.is/TW9zx
Best way to show you have skin in the game when it comes to not accepting blood money would be to return it publicly, right? Seems pretty easy to do if you're serious.

Not if you really wanted money and to pretend to maintain your "values" (fashion trend) tho
Read 4 tweets
21 Jun
"Well ackshually that doesn't work and has been debunked..."
-People who failed and never properly followed the instructions to people who did follow them exactly and succeeded.
The Internet in a nutshell.

The wisdom is there but hidden in plain sight through gate-keeping, social stigma, accreditation worship, search algorithm and people's inability to appreciate layers of symbology and learn their language.
Luckily the more work you undertake towards wisdom the more you realise it is not for everyone. It is not to be publicised directly nor will it be understood.

Hint and leave the curious eager to start their own journey and the dismissive to wallow in nihilism.
Read 4 tweets
19 Jun
"I'm lazy" is a great starting point to take action and a terrible ending point to give up.

That's like saying you're not good at basketball because you tried once and didn't score.
Kobe Bryant, one of the NBA's most famously deadly scorers, once went a whole summer as a 10-11 year old without scoring a point. He was "terrible", in his own words.

16-17 years later he scored more points an NBA game than anyone other than Wilt Chamberlain, perhaps history's greatest athlete.

12 points more than Michael Jordan ever scored.

Read 4 tweets
9 May
I could have cried laughing in tribute to KEKW when LS and Nemesis said G3 S10 Spring final draft was unwinnable for Nemesis and he wasn't an issue for not doing anything with four kills and items.
They open VOD and go to where he is 4 kills up, and show him die for no reason in jungle, with vision of enemies. They quickly backtrack their comments to a neutral position like "was it my fault here? I'd need to rewatch the game" and then quickly close VOD.
If LS and Nemesis could destroy my points they would. Instead they just shift the goal posts and declare I didn't score. Like if I point out you didn't carry the game they flip it to "but I wasn't the worst player on my team in the game."
Read 6 tweets
8 May
It's wild to me that Doublelift still ascribes to "ahead" and "behind" thinking about LoL.

If LoL has shown us anything it's that every patch is a slightly different game and macro concepts can be learned by totally fresh line-ups within weeks and months.
Preparation and practice is about removing the impediments which hold you back and aligning the strengths of the meta with your personal strengths.
How is CoreJJ so good still if NA is behind? Is he using left over magic from 2017? Of course not.

How has Jensen performed internationally despite playing his entire competitive career in LCS?
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