Your mental preparation is just as key as the physical.
Be present.
Come with “an empty cup”.
Approach every day as if it is your first lesson: Knowing nothing and ready to receive all information. Try everything, “relentlessly and without hesitation”. It’s learning every day, even when it’s fun. Retention can be prepped.
Start now by reading a play every day or so (looking for scenes), or look at a little bit of the history of martial arts. What period are the weapons from, what were people like then? Take a moment every day to gather bits of information to help you enrich your experience… and build the habit of filling and re-filling your empty cup.
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Thanks to Emma Claire Brightlyn for her inspiration for today’s post.
And thanks to Melody Sheep for creating this video of Bruce Lee’s wise words to us all: