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Nobody can fully determine the future but in his book of help to success The Secret Rhonda Byrne advises readers that it helps to "see things you want like already being yours ".
Conor McGregor was a willing visionary and talked about his influence on him and the power of positive projection. But even with the photos of the Irish star posing with the raised fist next to Russian President Vladimir Putin, you must have wondered if McGregor really wanted that moment and if it was part of the master plan.
In the shaking video footage that was broadcast of the historic meeting, McGregor appears as shocked, dazzled and intimidated as he tries to explain (do this thing where English speakers believe that if they speak English in a foreign accent, they will be understood) to a selfless Poutine that he had brought a gift of Irish whiskey that had been confiscated by security.
But it was another picture that captured the inimitable strangeness of McGregor's life. It was taken after the MMA fighter had been sitting to watch the final of the World Cup, to which he was the guest of Putin.
The camera is behind him so for once he's not aware of the lens. McGregor is on a corner seat in the VIP observation gallery. The seat next to him seems empty. He holds a small plate of pasta in his right hand. In his left hand, he squeezes a fork in his hand, as a little boy would do.
Given that McGregor's catalog of public images is composed of the fighter in perpetual triumph and surrounded by people – his mentors and his crew, the legion of worshiping followers, other celebrities eager to make the most of it. to be seen with one of the hottest products in the sport – is a very lonely image.
Here is McGregor at the biggest sporting event on the planet, in a stadium full of people creating this unique atmosphere of joy, tension and anticipation that accompanies these unique experiences. And it seems to be one of the lost souls of Edward Hopper
Portrait
If you live McGregor's life, time must move differently. It's been over five years now that he's sat down with Ewan McKenna in a McDonald's off Long Mile Road in Dublin to talk about his sports life so far in an excellent published interview. in Irish Examiner . He now reads as a precious portrait of McGregor just before he turns into a character. He had just won his first MMA paycheque a few weeks earlier, a windfall of € 60,000.
Just a month ago, he had been queuing at the Clondalkin welfare office. He appears intelligent, serious, a little eccentric and completely locked in a dream that is just starting to become more acute.
Who could not root someone who agreed to take the risk of harbading in his job to chase a sporting dream that, time, existed somewhere between fabulous and ridiculous? "I would prefer not to have money and just train instead of having a job that I do not like," he said that day .
Anyone over the age of 15 can remember what it has been like since. Most people, with a bit of luck and luck, are content to cope and fend for themselves. McGregor has had an inter-planetary change in life since then. He was the exception that proves the rule that The Secret is hokum.
His reinvention has nothing to do with the book, of course, and everything to do with a combination of his outstanding athleticism, his frightening determination, the chance of catching the wave of popularity of the MMA just when he was about to break and canniness to project a rogue character: party Tom Hardy villain, party Tom Wolfe.
It turned out to be an irresistible projection and in the space of four years, McGregor 's life was transformed as surely as he had He was handed a lamp of honor. Aladdin and just wished everything in be – private jets, cars, fame and shirts;
So, in a sense, McGregor did all that. But in another way, he could absolutely do nothing to prevent it. Once it's inserted into the system of social media phenomena, sports and sponsorship, pay-per-view, notoriety, in the sphere of Kardashian fame, it s is found locked in a 24/7 global entertainment show is well beyond anyone's comprehension scale. It was just swept and the money continues to roll at a phenomenal rate.
No wonder his Cadillac Esplanade was recently towed to Dublin for having no tax or insurance record. Does anyone really think that The Notorious will connect to motortax.ie and deliberate it should go for the six month full whack salary option? He is on the list of Forbes' richest performers among a celebrity pantomime that proves that everything is random: Coldplay, Judy Judy, Kylie Jenner, Howard Stern and, at # 1, the last man he's got. "Fought": Floyd Mayweather
Figurehead
This fight took place almost a year ago. And this week marked the fourth anniversary of McGregor's return to the UFC in Dublin when he pummeled Diego Brandao in the bid. The star was still in first ascension: joe.ie could then buy some advertising space on the seat of her shorts.
McGregor became in the next two years the figurehead of the meteoric expansion of the UFC and its movement toward the mainstream. But for 12 months, the furious advertising that McGregor has generated seems to be stopping.
According to reports, the popularity of the UFC has reached its peak and its decline has begun: its main audience has matured and is not replaced, McGregor has not found a superstar for flesh it out and make it compelling.
It is the story of McGregor who convinced ESPN to send Wright Thompson, who wrote wonderful portraits of Michael Jordan and Pat Reilly among others, in Dublin for a long play entitled Crossing Crumlin Road a story that glowed references to the suburbs of Dublin in a way that left the inhabitants flabbergasted.
Mayweather's fight was just around the corner and the world, despite his better judgment, was vaguely intrigued by the absurdity and haggling that swelled the "fight" in the show that he was becoming .
It seems that this bubble has burst since. You can not go back. And even if he wanted to, McGregor could not go back to that day when he sat down to sing honestly about him in McDonalds – planning to phone his girlfriend for a return home afterwards.
Five years later, he is the special guest of Putin. just like Donald Trump, appearing as his toy. But Trump is 72 and has been a killer in the celebrity world for decades. It happened overnight for – and at – McGregor. It must be mindbending.
What The Secret can not explain, is what happens when everything you dream about, work and visualize is realized 10 times and one day you are incredibly rich and you have fought everything and bought everything. have yachts and planes and everything and where he will take you to a football stadium in Moscow where you appear as an accessory in a photo opportunity for a sinister head of state and have stayed holding a small plate of pasta .
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