Thinking Out Loud In Public. volume 2.

It's crazy to me that fans or media personalities will react so adamantly to a fight promo or post fight conference and say something about how "unprofessional" this guy is over something he said or because he dropped the ball answering a question or not handling a topic more sensitively,

Right after they finished getting punched in the face for 30 minutes or so.

He's a professional fighter, not a public speaker.

Did he show up and do his job?

Now you're grilling him about the performance he puts on after he clocked out?

Do you think this guy became a world class fighter because he was the nicest guy in school and he was really good at math?

No, they're highly specialized athletes who worked their whole life to do one thing really, really well and usually it's the one thing they were good at very early on,

Everything else is a secondary. Floyd Mayweather's probably never even made himself a sandwich.

So People freak out when a professional basketball player or a musician gets a DUI or Tiger Woods cheats on his wife, sure these aren't good examples to emulate, but people have lives separate from their careers that they fuck up like the rest of us. And yet somehow these things still are supposed to reflect on your career.

To err is human.

Every now and then

There's that 1 highly specialized individual that's the best in the world at what they do; can also be really good parent, cook a great steak, have a fucking pilot's licence, be a certified deep sea diver, speak multiple languages and also happens to know a lot about quantum physics and speaks at the UN on climate change on the weekend...

But they're 1 in 7 billion.

And one of the worst things the Internet has done to us is to make us think that it's even remotely rational to think that any one person that's striving to be the best at what they're specialized to do is supposed to be an upstanding, perfect member of society in more than one way

Let alone every way,

Every. Single. Day.

When was the last time your degenerate ass was the best in your class for a day and managed to nail every single action and interaction following that for a year or a decade? ......... Never

Because that's not normal...

It's not even human.

But there is a vision being broadcasted to us of a society where each one of us is this perfectly mechanized, ripped and sexy, fiercely polite, culturally savvy, average joe super genius that's wired to save the world, achieve their dreams, buy a mansion, brush your teeth love your neighbor and raise a family in this fucking mess.

And It's. Not. Attainable.

If you're tenacious, steadfast, tedious and unwavering, you might achieve your feat of a lifetime. But you only get ONE.

You could be the only person to swim around the entire world,

And you'd be remembered for that forever,

but that's the thing you'd be remembered for.

And when you crawled out of the ocean after swimming some 24,401 miles (thanks Google)

You'd face a sea of eager microphones dying to hear your thoughts.

And I'd be surprised if you didn't say something like "TIRED."

Or "I just felt like, Swimming"

Or "get the fuck out of my face, I need a cheeseburger."

If you're motivated to be a highly functional, highly specialized individual, remember not to trust this image of the world the Internet is painting for you.

We were wired to hunt and gather in very small groups,

with very little extra between us and our own survival.

It took thousands of years to learn to live together in a metropolis.

Yet we demand Utopia.

You're a fucking ape, it's a miracle you can drive a motor vehicle.

And you're here. Right now.