There is nothing wrong with being proud of our accomplishments… But it is important we know that just because we get a win, the season is far from over. There’s always another fight, always more to learn, always more training to do.
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Anger and Jiu-Jitsu
To put it blithely: When life has you in mount, the solution is not to flail around, a victim of your own passion and panic. Instead, stay calm, breath, and remember that you know how to fix this.
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Move Thyself…
For the vast majority of those things, those obstacles, there is nothing we could do to avoid them. Still less we can do to remove them from our path. What we can control, is our perceptions of the obstacle and how we choose to react.
Continue readingAttitude: It Takes no Talent to Hustle
Recently, I was present to overhear someone explain a Stoic idea to children, and I nearly laughed out loud at how simple the concept could be (and how complicated I often make it). Instead of talking about…
Continue readingThe Dichotomy of Control and Why I don’t Mind Getting my Butt Kicked in Jiu Jitsu
The idea is simple to explain, but as with so many other things, it is hard to put into practice. It is the infamous Dichotomy of Control. “This is, of course, the idea that Stoics distinguish between things that are completely under control and things that are not, advising us to let go of the latter and focus on the first.”
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