MESSAGE #1240 WINNING MINDSET
Practice like you are the worst player.
Compete like you are the best player.
Work hard in practice.
Stay loose in competition.
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MESSAGE #1223 BRUCE LEE TOO
As promised, today’s message will include more of Bruce Lee, who would have turned 70 yesterday.
“If you want to learn to swim, jump into the water. On dry land, no frame of mind is going to help you.”
-BRUCE LEE
Think about it. If you learn all the technical and physical aspects of your sport/job, that is good. But you have to put yourself out there to get “tougher.”
In college, you learn theory.
In the real world, you gain experience and first-hand knowledge.
In practice, you learn theory.
In competition, you gain experience and learn how to win.
Most people don’t like to be thrown into pressure situations, but it is there where you learn the most.
It is there where you grow the most.
MESSAGE #998 THE TAO
From the Tao Te Ching (written around 500 B.C.)…
A great misfortune comes about
With the feeling, ‘I have an enemy’
For when ‘I’ and ‘enemy’ exist together
There is no room left for my treasureThus, when two opponents meet
The one who does not see an enemy
Will surely triumph (69)