Is the constant and incremental practice of a discipline an ally to our growth and well-being? Or is it exactly the opposite? It depends. To try to outline an answer, we need to look at how our system works. Pleasure and reward Our system is so well-designed that it releases dopamine when it perceives positive […]
Doing well. Doing wrong. A world opens up right behind and inside the words. A world made of attitudes, actions, beliefs. A world made of enormous chances and equally enormous misunderstandings. In the world of Martial Arts, as well as in the larger world of human activity, we all witness two extreme realities. On the […]
Those who argue that great initiatives are needed to make great revolutions probably do not know much about Nature. A cell of yeast is about 2,400 times smaller than the thickness of a hair, yet it transforms the flour so we obtain bread. A virus is three times the size of a yeast, yet it […]
In “Pride and Prejudice”, Jane Austen says through one of the characters the following sentence: “I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine” Provided that in the following few lines we wont speak about that kind of healthy pride (for example the satisfaction of a father who sees his son growing […]
1. I am the Sensei thy Lord, thou shalt have no other Teachers before me. 2. Thou shalt not take the name of O’Sensei in vain. 3. Remember to participate in the National Seminars. 4. Honor thy Senpai and Koai. 5. Thou shalt not kill (nor break bones). 6. Thou shalt not commit impure techniques […]
