This range so when everybody leaves just Elon sitting at home brush his teeth just bunch ideas bounce around their head when did you realise that that's not the case with most people when I was five or six or something I thought I was insane just strange because clearly enough people do not their mind wasn't exploding with ideas looks like strange I don't think I think it won't mean people like that option like never negative all the time overrule this administration's pledge to be honest you don't even write the door thing why because beyond the height there's just not much going on here Tesla still has yet to turn a profit that we have $1.5 billion company with no profit most recent quarter actually lost more money than it did the year before $1.5 billion losing more money than you before this is a company with limited visibility you put $90 billion like 50 years worth of breaks into into solar and wind solyndra fisker and Tesla and enter one I mean if I had a friend who said you don't just pick the winners and losers you pick the losers private enterprise will not ever lead a space from here because I don't want them to but my read of history to history tells me they can't it's not possible you know there are American heroes who don't like this idea the alarm strong gene cernan have both testified against commercial Space Flight in the way that you're developing it and I wonder what you think of that I was very sad to see that because those guys are yeah so it's really tough no I I wish they would come visit and see the hardware that we're doing here I think that would change them like they inspired you to do this didn't they yes and see them casting stones in your direction the float did you expect them to cheer you on so I hoping they would what are you trying to prove to them what are trying to do is to make a significant difference in its face flight and an end help make space life acceptable to to almost anyone one of the most difficult choices I have faced in my words was in 2008 and but I think I had hey maybe $30 million left little beautiful young girls left in 2008 had two choices what are all into one company and then the other company would definitely die or split it between the two companies and but if I split it between two companies then both might die and when you put your let's win tears into creating something boy something it's like a child is so thick which one am I going to let one starve to death you can bring myself to do it surprised I split the money between two emotionally thank goodness about their booking through who's your biggest failure and how did I change it well there's a tonne of failures along the way that's for sure those are simple for SpaceX first be launches failed and just barely able to scrape together enough parts and money to do the 4th launch that both launch had failed movie guide so multiple failures along the way doesn't really face this fear threat of death due to the model three production ramp essentially the company is bleeding money like crazy and just if we don't solve these problems of rational Perry time we were dying and was extremely difficult to solve them how close to death did you come here within St. Leger weeks but I went to Russia three times to look at buying never furbished icbm and I can tell you it was very weird going there in 2008 2001 2002 going to the Russian rocket forces and saying I'd like to buy two of your biggest rockets but you can keep the nuke they thought I was crazy but I did have money so that was those okay after making several trips to Russia I can't conclusion that my initial thought was well that there's not enough will to explore and expand beyond earth and have a Mars base and that kind of thing but I conclusion that that that was wrong in fact there's plenty of well particularly in the United states because the United states is a nation of explorers of people who came here from other parts of the world I think the United states really a distillation of the spirit of human exploration so after my third trip I said OK well we really need to do here is try to solve the space transport problem and and started SpaceX and this was against the advice of pretty much everyone I talked to they think it was it was tough going there in the beginning because I'd never built anything physical I mean it felt like little model rockets as a kid and that kind of thing but I never had a company that built in a physical touch have figure out how to how to do all these things and bring together the right team of people it was tough tough going you think about a rocket is the passing grade is 100% you don't get to actually test the rocket in the real environment that is going to be in so I think the best analogy for rocket engineering is like if you want to create a really complicated bit of software you can't run the software as an integrated whole and you can't run it on the computer it's intended to run on but the first time you put it all together and run it on the computer it must run with no bugs that the first launch I was picking up bits of rocket near the their launch cycles but sad we left with with each successive flights and were able to with eventually with the 4th flights in 2008 reach orbit I tried very hard to get the right expertise in former SpaceX tried hard to find a great chief engineer for the rocket but the good chief engineers would join and the bad ones will there's no point arguing so I ended up being chief engineer of the rocket if I could have found something better than we would have maybe had three failures how did you get the expertise to be the chief technology officer of a rocket ship company well I do have a physics background that's helpful as foundation and then I read a lot of books and talk to a lot of things 

 

TIME AND PUNISHMENT

Life Without Parole: Four Inmates’ Stories

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Of the 140,000 prisoners serving life sentences in the United States, about 41,000 have no chance at parole, a result of laws that eliminated parole in the federal system and for many state prisoners. These rules, along with the mandatory sentences decreed for some crimes and some repeat offenders, were intended to make punishment both stricter and fairer, but judges complain that the rigid formulas too often result in injustice. Here are four prisoners sentenced to life without parole by judges who did not believe the punishment fit the crime.

KENNETH HARVEY

The first two times Kenneth Harvey was caught with drugs in California, he was given probation. Then, to earn $300, at the age of 24 he took a flight in 1989 from Los Angeles to Kansas City to deliver a vial of cocaine strapped to his leg. This time he went to prison for good.

When Judge Howard Sachs imposed the mandatory sentence of life without parole in federal court in Missouri, he said he was troubled by the disproportionate punishment.

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“I do not think it was fully understood or intended by Congress in cases of this nature,” the judge said, “but there is no authority that I know of that would permit a different sentence by me.”

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The judge recommended that Mr. Harvey be considered for clemency after he served 15 years in prison — a recommendation that was later seconded by the appeals court, which urged prosecutors to deliver the recommendation to the federal office in charge of clemency. But his 15th anniversary passed, and his clemency petition was denied.

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“I do not like my current situation, but I got myself here,” Mr. Harvey, now 47, wrote in a recent e-mail from his prison in Beaumont, Tex. While saying he did not want to blame anyone else, he judged his life sentence unfair, “especially when compared with child molesters, rapists, murderers and those along that line.” After more than 22 years behind bars, he wrote, “I feel very strongly that I’ve been rehabilitated.”

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SCOTT WALKER

In his early 20s, Scott Walker became addicted to methamphetamine and paid for his habit by selling drugs along with friends in Carbondale, Ill. When he was found guilty of being part of a conspiracy to distribute marijuana and meth, it was his first felony conviction, but federal law required Judge J. Phil Gilbert to impose a sentence he considered “excessive and disproportionate.”

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“Maybe somewhere down the line Congress will relieve the people in your position,” he said to Mr. Walker, then 26, at the sentencing hearing in 1998. Today Mr. Walker is 41, and Judge Gilbert looks back on the sentencing as “one of the most difficult moments in my judicial career.” The judge, a former prosecutor, has written a letter toPresident Obamasupporting a commutation of the sentence, and praising Mr. Walker’s record as a model prisoner.

“His unbroken spirit in the face of a life sentence is an example of the human spirit at its strongest,” Judge Gilbert wrote. “As a judge, as a citizen and as a taxpayer, I see no reason that this individual should spend the rest of his natural life incarcerated.”

REYNOLDS WINTERSMITH

After the drug-related death of his mother, a heroin addict, Reynolds Wintersmith moved to his grandmother’s home, which was a brothel and a crack house. There, as a teenager, he was taught to cook crack by his aunts. He spent a little more than a year in a drug ring selling crack in Rockford, Ill., until being locked up shortly after his 19th birthday on drug-conspiracy charges.

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“You were 17 years old when you got involved in this thing,” Judge Philip G. Reinhard said to Mr. Wintersmith when he imposed the mandatory sentence in federal court. “This is your first conviction, and here you face life imprisonment. I think it gives me pause to think that was the intent of the Congress.” He urged Mr. Wintersmith to “hope something will change in the law.”

Mr. Wintersmith is now 38 and has spent half his life in prison, becoming a highly regarded tutor and counselor who helps other prisoners prepare to return to society. He looks back on his teenage self as a social menace but also as someone quite foreign. “I am no longer that person,” he said. “I ask only for a chance to contribute as a positive, productive human being in society.”

ROBERT RILEY

Robert Riley was a follower of the Grateful Dead who sometimes sold drugs to fellow Deadheads in the 1970s and ‘80s. Convicted several times for possession of small amounts of marijuana and amphetamines, he spent short periods in county jails in California and Wisconsin. In 1993, he was convicted in a federal court in Iowa of conspiring to distribute hits of LSD dissolved on pieces of blotter paper.

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The weight of the LSD was minuscule, but prosecutors also counted the blotter paper’s weight, putting it over a 10-gram threshold that — with the previous convictions — meant a mandatory life sentence without parole.

At the sentencing hearing, his lawyer complained that Mr. Riley was being punished more severely than most violent criminals, even murderers. Mr. Riley described mandatory drug sentences as “governmentally sanctioned, personalized terrorism” and said, “Hopefully after my death, someone will want to read this.” The judge, Ronald E. Longstaff, listened sympathetically.

“It’s an unfair sentence,” Judge Longstaff said as he imposed it. Nine years later, in 2002, he wrote a letter supporting a petition for presidential clemency.

“There was no evidence presented in Mr. Riley’s case to indicate that he was a violent offender or would be in the future,” the judge wrote. “It gives me no satisfaction that a gentle person such as Mr. Riley will remain in prison the rest of his life.”

The petition was not granted. Mr. Riley, now 60, has been behind bars for 19 years.

 

 Is the matter yes because if you if you is spent a lot of time in social media cheque your your cell phone or whatever thing that you do in the with technology that is the matter but why not some people say that they waste their lives in front of Facebook in front of instrumentals and ashamed bring a real life just obsessed this thankless and other peoples pictures and then they get depressed because they feel that other people have a better time than them more money than them better friends than them and they don't realise that everybody is just putting up the highlights of their life they have all the same problems but they just put the good moments about the social media course don't you think it's a bit of a waste I think so too bad Anne Anne and when you post or when you pass the time in social media and you don't have the control or you don't have or they you don't think and many things like like OK if I if I gonna if I gonna watch in a watch video in whatever platform like to talk or I don't know what a the time passed faster Anne and they don't know what what was the other ink what did you say no I just said that people are people are not living a real life Skype Sir just digital getjealous of other people because they came to have a better time or money better friends but they don't realise they're only there only uploading the most important the best parts of their life at all okay and they show their perfect lives and yes there isn't another point important point because everybody an post photos with fancy themes with a luxurious themes or with our paradise in or win a ***** or whatever to I don't know who say but it's meat Anne 22 let me let me find to show off everybody show off top yeah everybody showing off but it's not really be lush and if it's not real life it's kind of a waste of time right I mean if you spend same as TV like I mean maybe it helps you relax really early Saturday or something when he could be out meeting friends or walking or doing a lot better things that's five hours of your life you never get back so I don't know it's kind of a waste of time in my opinion yeah come on somebody else talk what do you think sound speak what do you think is it a waste of time or not can you hear me can anybody hear me yes I can‘t yes teacher okay Joanna can you speak in tell me do you think it's a waste of time or not yes we waste sign in social networks an we we don't feel very bad about this that is that's the problem in why do you think people don't feel badly about it is normal on is um necessity it is necessary necessary to feel better is the way to go out of the reality real life on you can feel to live in another way is how is like maybe it’s r Psychologically necessary for people to relax yes OK Nicole can you say something starting teacher can you say something can you make a contribution to the conversation it oh about this technology go to video we watched it well I think that in some cases the technology and can be run running in our life because a we can be more song applications are you addicted to any application can you repeat please are you addicted to any application and at the moment no but last day at last time I addictd bye **** duck eat how much time did you spend watching tick tock everyday Anne sometimes two hours or more I don't know I love never watched videos I think I don't wanna download that cause I'm afraid I might get addicted good all I know is you see people dancing and synchronisation there are many ways to learn English I follow a one minute you follow who yes I follow and I think person I don't remember telling that is not good feature very good alright hold on teacher did you say something about the second part of the problem no but all these all these videos that were watching I just to give you ideas and and to be able to think of things to say about your part of the projects that's the idea of the videos I understand bad is an I don't know who say that thing what what is this a compare about well I've already explained this but I I'll explain it again the second part is you writing developing rather the idea that you have every everybody wrote or should have wrote an idea for the first part of the project that they agree that technology is making better people or making us worse people and white and you should have whichever side you're on if you're against you should have a reason why you're against that idea I'm in the second part you develop that idea can you write to her three paragraphs you need to write as much that you think you need so you can continue talking for a minute and a half or two minutes but you don't read what you wrote you have to put that aside and say what you wrote in your own words I mean I'll have it too so I'll know if you're reading so don't mean it just trying to say it in your own words the idea is to get some natural conversation about it and then somebody from the other group has to ask you a question but you don't know what your question is going to be so you have to be able to be ready to answelet's go back to the r another question your job also is when somebody from your team is speaking this is on the final day now you think of a question to ask them so basically on the second part of the project in right what you're going to say and on the third part you say it that's it OK thank you feature night 

2008 panel of experts from the future of humanity institute published the results of a survey regarding the global catastrophic business that humanity will face in the 21st century the results of the questionnaire both surprising and concerning because the experts agree that there is a one in five chance of human extinction before the year 2100 at the 2008 Oxford conference participants considered nanotechnology artificial intelligence and war to be the three categories that were most likely to bring about such an event personally the one that keeps me awake at night is the unbridled development of artificial intelligence it's partially because of the weaponization of artificial intelligence what I like to refer to as the dark triad of offensive lethal autonomous machines the possibility of programming errors or users deliberately inflicting these on any population is the type of thing that makes me nervous the development of artificial intelligence is supposed to make lives a lot easier but in practise might represent the biggest existential threat of all when we see a civilization that effectively disappears without a record of precisely why they left the answer is often rooted in the development of advanced technology because advanced technology enables a larger population to live in a smaller area but if something happens to the resources themselves then you don't have the capacity to support the population anymore when I look at an episode like Rome making an incredible drainage system out of lead pipes and then everyone goes nuts is it all that different than a human society building sub technology to the point where we forget that we're really just part of an ecosystem that's much more powerful than us no matter what we built we have a tendency to assume that we can always innovate our way out of the crisis of the moment also no guarantee that technology will save a civilization when it's faced with an existential threat 

At apple we believe privacy harvest ivacy privacy privacy privacy privacy privacy privacy privacy privacy privacy privacy privacy okay so you've all heard apple talk about privacy a lot and also about how ego friendly they are but is that all true or is there some sort of underlying corporate reason behind all of this due to benefits that apple is giving us with all the privacy tools outweigh the negatives and what are the negatives really is apple evil the short answer is of course not so we're not living in some sort of dystopian future here but evil corporations that just want to take your money but there are a few things that will make you pause and contemplate for a second so get us next ready and enjoy a bit of a different video OK so probably the biggest statement that apple has started making in the past few years is that they are trying to become the world's most eco friendly company which is great obviously this is a positive thing and they have done a few things to make this happen for example their offices and data centres run on 100% renewable energy their products are highly recyclable and they are also reducing waste by making the boxes of the iPhone smaller by not including a charger all of these statements are true and on the surface you might think that apple is indeed very environmentally focused but once you dig deeper you'll realise that each of these points has a major downside which almost just almost invalidates the entire point for example even though Apple's offices and stores do run on 100% renewable energy their manufacturing partners who make all the iPhones at all the Macs and so on do not so would every apple device that apple makes there is still an environmental impact they do claim that they want to be fully carbon neutral by 2030 which will include their suppliers as well so I am happy that they are acknowledging this issue and working towards it but as of right now keep in mind that their manufacturing it's not eco friendly but yeah that statement is true now let's take a look at a second one the fact that Apple's products are highly recyclable so if your iPhone breaks you will take it to the apple store and depending on the damage if your iPhone is no longer in warranty which by the way only last for a single year you will be charged up to $600 to fix a knife and living from Max for example the problem is that he can actually buy a newly refurbished iPhone living promax for $719 apple charges almost that price just to fix your broken one which is absolutely nuts and because of this most people just don't end up fixing their broken phones as it would cost them pretty much the same as buying a new phone so they just buy a new phone in that case which in itself creates waste but why don't they just go to a third party repair shop then well they can but apple has severely restricted what third party repair shops can do Louis rossman and I fix it are both probably the biggest advocates for the right to repair which simply states that if someone wants to repair it device they should be able to and they should have access to the right components to do that whereas right now you have to ask apple in order to become an authorised repair shop and even then there's actually not much that can do aside from just replacing the screen and the battery so apple is still limiting third party repair shops heavily which means that even though apple claims that they can easily repair your iPhone oftentimes customers are charged hundreds of dollars just to fix a broken charging port which independent repair shops can do for something like 30 to $50 but a lot of them are unable to do so as apple just doesn't make the components readily available so let's go back to that statement apple product highly recyclable is that true yes it is boards Apple's decision to make repairs almost an accessible to customers by charging them exorbitant prices and restricting third parties from repairing creates a tonne of waste which in my opinion is just invalidates Apple's entire points so now let's take a look at Apple's third points not the lack of chargers and iPhone boxes reduces waste again if you just take this as it is it makes sense that including a charger in the box of iPhones means that the box itself will be smaller which in turn means that more boxes will fit in a delivery truck which in turn means that apple will need less trucks to ship the same number of iPhones which in turn means less solution so problem solved right not really you see the real issue here is that by apple removing the charger people who don't already have a USB type C charger will need to buy one separately and considering that apple only started shipping USB C chargers with the iPhone 11 unless you're upgrading from the iPhone 11 to 12 you will actually need a charger and some of you might say now that oh I have an old iPhone pipe charger which is still lightning so I can actually use that which is true but that will be a very slow charger so if you want fast charger you will have to buy a separate USB type C1 but then if you buy a separate charger that charger will have its own box that box will likely go inside another larger box like you know Amazon boxes which will go inside its own delivery truck which will require extra shipping and therefore create extra pollution so do you see where I'm coming from by apple removing the charger they actually end up polluting the environment more what they should have done instead is give the users the option at checkout to claim a free charger that would be included in the box of the iPhone should they need one at the moment the only thing that apple has achieved by removing the charger is saving money in manufacturing and shipping costs and shifting the environmental problem from themselves to the consumer the big issue here is that apple doesn't think about others when making these statements they analyse everything as if no other company exists and with this mentality sure apple is saving the planet but in reality that is not entirely true now probably Apple's biggest campaign right now it's about privacy About how unlike other companies such as Facebook and Google apple does truly care about keeping your data safe so is this true yes apple does in fact keep pretty much all data used for processing your photos and even pressing your see requests that directly on your devices rather than on Apple's servers everything is encrypted and therefore it means that not even apple can read your personal data for example they recently introduced private relay which does prevent you from being tracked but it also severely caps your Internet speeds and it doesn't offer you a lot of the benefits of you know an actual VPN such as the ability to manually change your location and so much more Speaking of VPNs massive shout out to serve short VPN for sponsoring this video search shark is a tool that secures your Internet connexion so that 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Elon musk

 

born in Pretoria South Africa Musk was born on June 28th 1971 in Pretoria South Africa -he is the son of may Musk a model and dietician from Canada and Errol Musk a South African electromechanical engineer pilot and sailor

 

 March 1981 interest in computing his parents divorced when Elon was ten during this time he really got into computers at the age of 10 he developed an interest in computing with the Commodore vics 20 and taught himself computer programming

 

March 1984 sold his first video game by the age of 12 Musk sold the code of a basic based video game he created called blastar to a magazine called PC and office technology for approximately $500

 

June 1989 moved to Canada at the age of 17 Elon Musk move to Canada to attend Queens university avoiding mandatory service in the South African military

 

August 1992 University of Pennsylvania Musk left Canada to study business in physics at the University of Pennsylvania he graduated with an undergraduate degree in economics in stayed for a second bachelors degree in physics

 

February 1995 started zip 2 Musk and his brother Kimball started zip two a web software company that developed and marketed on Internet city guide for the newspaper publishing industry the company raised money from a small group of Angel investors

 

February 1999 sold zip 2 to Compaq.. Compaq acquired city for $307 million in cash and $34 million in stock options in February 1999 Musk received $22 million for his 7% share from the sale

 

back in 95 they went through many people on the Internet and certainly nobody was making any money at all most people thought the Internet was going to be a fat ¨¨¨

March 1999 Co founded x.com Musk Co founded x.com a financial services and payments company at via e-mail it achieved a high level of security without it being complicated for the users to make the transfer

 

March 2000 x.com to PayPal x.com merged with confinity Inc a software company based in Silicon Valley Musk was attracted to confinity because of its easy payment system the merged company changed its name to PayPal

 

January 2000 first wife Musk married Canadian author Justine Wilson after meeting her while attending the university of Queens they had six children together but their first son Nevada passed away in infancy

 

May 2002 founded space axe Musk founded space exploration technologies or SpaceX with $100 million of his early fortune.. SpaceX develops and manufactures space launch vehicles with the goal of eventually building more affordable spacecraft that would make it possible to one day reach in colonise Mars

 

October 2002 eBay acquired PayPal …PayPal was acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion in stock of which must one $150 million in eBay shares

 

July 2003 Tesla is founded engineers Martin eberhard and mark tarpenning founded Tesla Motors Elon Musk came into the project in 2004 leading an investment round in the start up with a personal contribution of $70 million.. musk participated in designing their first electric car which was a Tesla roadster sports car based on the British Lotus Elise

 

really liking what you do whatever area that you get into given that even if you're the best the best there's always a chance of failure so I think it's important that you really like whatever you doing if you don't like it life is too short if you like what you doing you think about it even when you're not working it'll just it's something that your mind is drawn to and if you don't like it you just really can't make work

 

July 2006 Co founded SolarCity Musk provided the initial concept in financial capital for SolarCity Co founded by his cousins Lyndon and Peter rive SolarCity develops and sells solar panels and solar roof tiles

 

may 2012 SpaceX dragon SpaceX vehicle dragon and docked with the International Space Station ISS making history as the first commercial company to launch and birth a vehicle to the International Space Station

 

 September 2014 Tesla autopilot.. Tesla Motors announced its first version of autopilot IT system is capable of lane control with autonomous steering breaking and speed limit adjustments based on signals image recognition --Musk believes that before too long the software will be good enough that it can operate without active human oversight

 

July 2016 neuralink Musk Co founded neuralink . a neurolink technology startup company centred on creating devices that can be implanted in the human brain with the eventual purpose of helping human beings merge with software and keep pace with advancements in artificial intelligence

may 2016 SpaceX makes history after many failed attempts space act successfully landed its Falcon nine rocket on a drone ship at sea after launching it into space for the first time changing the economics of SpaceFlight forever

 

Percent damage distance shortly after managing cut off and we're going to separate the stages and begin the second stage issue come on The first stage consumed again in series prepare to head back towards Cape Canaveral where's this is bad Standing up explosion

 

January 2021 world's richest man Musk is now worth $182.9 billion which again that makes him the wealthiest person on the planet according to Forbes estimate that Tesla chief is now just less than $1 billion richer than besos who falls to the second richest person in the world

 

2025 Mars SpaceX intends to land immersion service starting a project which could colonise Mars in 40 to 100 years- Musk has said he'd like to die there if possible though not on impact

 

they think that technology just automatically improves it does not automatically improve it only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better but I want to be clear Alex I'm not trying to be anyone saviour that is not the I'm just and think about the future and not be sad

 

Before the goals and the trophies

Cristiano Ronaldo endured struggles that you can't even imagine and without the bravery of this Ronaldo---- we would have never met this ronaldo  because absolutely nothing hinted at this kind of success .

Cristiano Ronaldo might have never been born. his mother considered having an abortion because she already had three children and financially or home life was so fragile. she couldn't look after another . her doctor convinced her to keep the baby Cristiano was ultimately born on February 5th 1985 in funchal on the island of Madeira but he grew up in extreme poverty with his brother and two sisters the kid shared a tiny bedroom with Hugo.  is eldest sibling . the family had nothing.

 

 I grew up with nothing we were very poor I didn't get toys or presence of Christmas money wasn't the only problem.  Jose Denis cristiano's father wasn't involved in his son's upbringing.  he was also suffering from an alcohol addiction and it ultimately led to his death in 2005 after a tumour developed in this liver . the young boy quickly began using football as an escape . he made friends and played with them in the street even skipped meals to spend time outside and at 11 his life took a decisive turn . his talent caught the eye of the best scouts in the country .  he joined his favourite club Sporting Lisbon .young Cristiano was living the dream . dream quickly turned into a nightmare because he ended up spending the worst years of his life there.  no money no family no friends , all he brought with him were two things his talent of course but above all his immense determination

 

I had to leave my family aged 12 to live in Lisbon by myself it was very difficult for me it was the worst experience of my life

 

this was the start of a long road full of challenges at the time young Cristiano was so poor that he had to beg for food I lived in Lisbon with other young boys it was difficult we were far from our families didn't have money we were hungry around 11 we lived near McDonald's we asked for hamburgers and leftovers from a woman named Edna unfortunately fighting to fill his stomach was only a small part of his daily struggle . Cristiano excelled on the pitch but that was far from the case at school he was failing academically and at 14 he lost it . in Madera the accent is very different when he opened his mouth you didn't understand what he was saying and everyone made fun of him one day he threw a chair at a teacher because everyone was making fun of him and she didn't do anything to stop it.  a dark form of harassment which reminded him of his old demons when he was a child he was made fun of a lot by his team mates some give him the nickname cry baby because he would occasionally cried when he was angry we called him cry baby because he loves to win and that's still the case today but he really hated losing and as soon as he lose or   someone didn't pass to him . . he start crying.  he was expelled after the incident with his teacher.  in the eyes of the young man school was just a prison where he couldn't express himself freely. one thing was clear . he didn't have a place somewhere like that he was convinced that the only place he needed to be was the football pitch the team wanted to dedicate his life to the beautiful game so he didn't get down on himself .

his mother made the decision to leave everything and move to the capital with him . from then on the young man picked himself up but there was still a long way to go he forged the character And a mentality of steel ..from that moment on he was determined to succeed and work hard.. very hard …the kid from Madera wanted to prove that he could succeed and realised one thing you're not the best when you believe you are… but when you know… it Cristiano searched for ways to stand out in his own team

 

I was 16  he is   just turned 15 . the first memory I have of him is in the shower ..he was doing sit ups in challenging everyone .. I'll do more than you I was impressed the very first time I saw him on the pitch …the kid didn't just show that he knew how to play football he made sure his team mates witnessed all of his ability with one aim  leaving an impression. He was  different from the others what  marked  me the most was his mentality already at this age I was seeing him work harder than the others . he wanted to be stronger to go faster to be the best.  there was no doubt that Cristiano Ronaldo would become great.  he would leave his mark on the sport but while all his efforts seemed to be finally paying off.  doctors discovered that he had a heart abnormality a problem that could have represented a risk to put an end to his dream and without a rapid intervention CR7 would have never existed at rest… his heartbeat too fast I was in Madera when I found out I immediately gave my permission for a laser procedure.  we were all sad and preoccupied because there was a risk that he'd have to stop football in the end everything went well once again Cristiano Ronaldo overcame an obstacle placed in his way as he finally out of the tunnel the young man kept working and with a lot of determination he was convinced that all his sacrifices would pay off and everyone who crossed his path new what would happen the kid from Madeira success was nothing but a question of time… his performances at the training centre were largely convincing and at 17 years old sporting's coach gave him a shot with the pros ….in 2003 he signed from Manchester United at his career took off  …. we all know what happened next hundreds of golds …dozens of trophies …..Cristiano Ronaldo is a living legend the Portuguese player continues to surprise the world despite his age… he is the perfect example that you should never give up …and we the football fans have to admire his longevity….. longevity which is the result of a life full of sacrifices….. he deprived himself of so many things to taste victory….. victory in a fight that's never easy to win …a fight against life and its terrible injustices….. put his talent and his determination to one side….. Cristiano Ronaldo didn't have anything to help him succeed…. success can sometimes hang by a thread….. Cristiano did however proved to the entire world that despite your origins or your social class…. it's possible to achieve your dreams… the Portuguese player is truly passionate …..he's passing all his knowledge and values onto his son Cristiano junior….. if you learn one thing from this man. it's that you should never lose sight of your goals…. Cristiano Ronaldo started from nothing ….so… never give up  be confident and don't listen to people who doubt you if you have a dream… you have to protect it  ….and fight all the way to make it happen ,,, the best advice we can give you is to follow cristiano's    

 

Don’t let smalla obstacles be in the way of being victrorious. Remember you are strnger than the challenges you face…. Cristiano Ronaldo.