LeBron James continues to make news with his cryptic social media posts, and he doesn’t really mind that they get people talking.
“It’s just my mind working, that’s all,” James said on Monday, via Dave McMenamin of ESPN. “I don’t know if anything started it. Just my mind working. I got a beautiful mind and I want to use it sometimes in a social manner.
“They’re for the educated mind,” James said of his tweets. “So if you have an educated mind, they hit home for you. [Sunday] night I tweeted that consistency and structure breeds perfection, and if you take a shortcut or if you don’t handle business, then you come up short. I think everybody should understand that. It’s nothing between the lines, it’s just life. You can’t shortcut being perfect or trying to be as perfect as you can, or trying to get to a point where you just feel like you can succeed. So, for educated minds, it should be fine.”
That’s right, if you don’t get LeBron’s tweets, it’s because you’re too low-brow for it.
James insists that he’s not bothered by criticism of his posts.
“Some of it I listen to, I use it as motivation,” James said. “It never gets to a point in my mind where it’s like, I should take it serious, because it doesn’t matter … If you’ve ever read Theodore Roosevelt, ‘the man in the arena’ [from his 1910 speech, “Citizenship in a Republic”], it basically just symbolizes if you’ve never been in the arena before, if you never had blood, sweat and tears before, felt the roar of the arena or been in the competition, then you can’t really understand.”
You can see the latest series of cryptic tweets that spurred the questions here. It’s not the first time James has had to answer questions about hidden – or not-so-hidden – meanings behind his tweets.
