The Challenger 2 Tank Comes Fully Equipped With a Tea Station
When you’re a Brit deep in enemy territory, sometimes you simply have to stop for a spot of tea1.
I imagine feeling a taste of home is warming and welcoming. Personally, the fascination with tea is something I have yet to understand. I once had some cheap, synthetic strawberry tea and it scarred me.
But that’s besides the point. The tank doesn’t actually have a tea station. It’s a boiling vessel for rations.
Correctly fueling our organic machine is a necessity.
The energy requirements of deployed troops and office workers are, obviously, different, but neither task can be accomplished to our potential unless we fuel ourselves.
As long as you care about the things you do you should care about being fueled for them. We cannot think as clearly on an unhealthy diet, and our machine cannot run as long.
Marathon runners always come prepared.
If you’ve ever gone on long runs you’ll know that replenishing energy is essential. As you train you’re not just aiming to run for a long time, you’re also practicing your fueling schedule.
Many runners eat energy gels. It becomes a science when taken to the extreme. The exact moment to take a gel, and how many overall.
The quest for optimal performance is not one of mindless training. It is one of preparation.
Bring a sense of familiarity wherever you go.
We’re all a combination of an unending amount of factors. At our core, however, is a place. It shapes us with its customs. We can move, we can adapt, we can assimilate, but there is beauty in remembering where we come from.
When English is taught in Danish schools, the focus is initially on grammar and vocabulary. For students that show a particular aptitude, however, the goalposts shift. You have to sound English—bonus points if you sound British, and not American (don’t shoot the messenger).
I always resisted this.
I didn’t want to sound like something I wasn’t. I wanted to sound like a potato was lodged in my throat.
Like a Danish person.
You should put more effort into sounding better, the teachers would always say.
Maybe you should put more effort into sounding like yourself.
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When I did french at school I tried to do the accent and my classmates laughed. "Why are you doing that" they asked, "because that's how French sounds". It didn't stop me, I still do accents, by accident sometimes, it's almost like tourettes where I will mimic someone's voice unintentionally.
I've said it before Rasmus, I'll say it again because it's more appropriate here than ever but your voice sounds brilliant, I think you did well to continue to sound like yourself.