Welcome to Constantly Curious, Edition #21!

This week at a glance:

• There’s No Failure in Sports (or Life) - Let’s Examine

• Can’t Miss Links of the Week 🔥

• Let’s Take your Coffee Game to the Next Level

• Three (3) Quotes/Thoughts

If this is your first time reading - welcome! Let your curiosity run wild with us every Thursday at 12pm EST.

With that said, let’s get into it -

There’s No Failure in Sports (or Life)

I wrote this tweet earlier this week - click it, read, and then come back so I can expand.

I’ve talked a bit about mindset and perspective, and this tweet builds on those ideas. At the time, Giannis caught a lot of shit for saying this. But I loved it, because I believe it speaks to why Giannis is who he is in the first place, and highlights the mindset that it takes to be “special”.

Just look at the photo in the Tweet - most people who start on the left don’t end up finishing on the right. Going from a skinny, raw 18 year-old kid playing in the Greek 2nd Division to 2x NBA MVP and 1x NBA Champion takes something different.

The only way you can overcome seemingly insurmountable odds is through seemingly insane self-belief.

If every failure is a lesson, you can NEVER lose. You might laugh at the idea, but how can you beat someone who really believes that?

My CAN’T MISS Links of the Week

PRO TIPS: For any articles that are paywall’d, refer to CC #11 or CC #19 for a way to bypass. OR, utilize your iPhone’s “Reader View” in your browser (this works occasionally)

⛳ Steph Curry is on a Mission to Make Golf More Equitable (Front Office Sports)

🏟️ The Rise and Fall of ESPN’s Leverage (Stratechery)

🚰 Scientists Say New Device Can Scrub 99.9% of Microplastics from Water (Futurism)

☕ Brewing the Ultimate Cup of Coffee with The Chemex (James Hoffman, YouTube)

⚾ Alec Bohm’s Progression is Powering the Phillies (MLB Network YouTube)

Alright, Let’s Take Your Coffee Game to the Next Level

I love coffee for two reasons:

1. It’s awesome

2. Speciality Coffee (and the process of brewing and exploring it) is an affordable luxury

Affordable luxuries are a topic I’ll be diving deeper into in the future, but the concept is simple…

An affordable luxury is anything that you can add to your life that costs little but adds much more (think: Specialty Coffee, Craft Beer, Homemade Bread, etc).

Affordable luxuries like speciality coffee take ordinarily mundane categories, and infuse them with so much richness. They’re just fun to dive into and nerd out on.

Here are some resources to get started in the speciality coffee game specifically through the eyes of one of my favorite coffee content creators, James Hoffman…

(I personally own the OXO 9-Cup Brewer mentioned ^ here ^, and LOVE it)

Three Quotes & Ideas to Consider

See you next week!

Stay Curious, Friends!