Bruce Lee shared quite a bit of profound wisdom during his tragically short life, but there was one philosophy that really left his mark. Inspired, Conor used it to become a champion nothing like the world has ever seen. Join me, as we break down Bruce Lee's life philosophy.
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"No path as the path, that was the code Bruce Lee lived by, and it’s interesting how he stumbled upon it. When Bruce lee studied under Ip Man, he was considered a very talented warrior, but at the same time, nobody wanted to spar with him simply because he had a quarter German in his blood. He wasn’t pure Chinese, thus experienced a lot of resentment from his peers. Instead of complaining, he would search for anyone willing to train and spar with him, stumbling across a sea of disciplines very different to his own. He was fascinated, and thought it was foolish dividing himself and his study from everyone else, just because they were different styles… Why have so much pride preserving a style when they all have something incredible to offer? He felt this way, because it resonated with the same feeling he had when all his country men rejected him just because he was a quarter German… “why won’t you train with me just because I’m different? I have so much to offer, we have so much we can learn together, why do you reject me just because I’m different…”… He saw that every time people told him, "that style is inferior, we don’t mix our styles with them, stay true to your own style"… Every time he heard that, he felt tremendous resentment because that was the same feeling, the same pride that rejected him, the same pride his country men used to refuse sparring bruce for his german blood". So... Bruce rejected their pride, and would steal techniques and knowledge from other disciplines picking fights with students from different schools until he beat up the wrong people and had to flee to America. There his hunger to learn didn’t end. He continued to search for different techniques attempting to refine the ultimate style. He would spar with different disciplines, read books from krishnamurti to fencing, trying to refine his own style, which would eventually become known as jeet kune do. As he continued through this path, the endless sea of art forms, he tried his best to perfect the ultimate style. Through years of solitude and constant study in a storm of books, he tried… But he couldn’t do it. He couldn’t find the ultimate style… He even became resentful of the name he coined for his own discpline. Jeet Kune Do for it translated to way of the intercepting fist, implying a way of doing things… He realized even that was not perfect… He gave up trying to find the best method and realized, there was no method, there was no best. There is only the journey. The journey of you, and through a bit of direction, constant study and practice, through the techniques learned, you were never trying to learn how beat another person, but instead, you were always learning how to beat yourself, beat yourself and grow through the many forms of expression provided through these techniques. It was never about you being better than him or her, but being the best of who you were to your own perception. Life was a constant battle with oneself, and through experimentation, failure, study, success, we come just an inch closer to that understanding, an inch closer to understanding the unique infinite that each of us are… It’s interesting how Albert Einstein came to the same conclusion, that there is no one truth, even creating the meshurian circumference to show you’ll only find more methods attempting to seek one, only find more questions for each answer… But through this understanding he came to understand, that we are all special, that because we are all unique and different, we have something incredible to offer, and through that notion believed we were all the same. Whether you were black, white, brown, Chinese, hispanic, native, Irish, the many colours of the human condition, we were all precious, yet for that same reason all one in the same…
The biggest difference between Conor and every other mixed martial artist is this: Most martial artists don’t believe in themselves, they believe in their style, they are representing their..."
20 дек 2016
