Majicman Notes

In short, “getting it together” requires slowing the mind. Quieting the mind means less thinking, calculating, judging, worrying, fearing, hoping, trying, regretting, controlling, jittering or distracting. W. Timothy Gallwey, The Inner Game of Tennis  Read more

Let’s talk about the importance of nothing. You get up every day, you’re entitled to nothing. Nobody owes you nothing. You have talent, but if you don’t have discipline, you don’t execute, you don’t focus,… Read more

Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim, Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will… Read more

The need to exhibit is an act against oblivion, a resistance to emptiness, that art and death exist at opposite ends of the spectrum. Hisham Matar, A month In Siena Read more

I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not… Read more

The chances that you will wake up are in direct proportion to the amount of TRUTH you can take without running away. You cannot fear something that you do not know.  Nobody is afraid of… Read more

Brinkmanship—de­fined by Mer­riam-Web­ster as “the art or prac­tice of push­ing a dan­gerous sit­u­a­tion or con­frontation to the limit of safety es­pe­cially to force a de­sired out­come” The abil­ity to get to the verge with­out get­ting… Read more

Akrasia, commonly translated as “weakness of will,” a habit of not listening to what we accept should be heard and a failure to act upon what we know is right. It is because of akrasia… Read more

The one thing suffering has taught me is that everything is fleeting. Pain is fleeting, feelings are fleeting, how you feel in this moment is going to change. So when I’ve been through heartbreak, when… Read more

The hard­est thing in ten­nis is to for­get the double fault or the missed chances, and most play­ers can’t. Only the very good ones clean them out and really look for­ward to the next chance.… Read more