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Try Softer: Why Trying Harder Is Sometimes a Recipe for Failure For almost twenty years, I was blessed to train under Grandmaster Bong Soo Han, a hapkido martial artist whose prowess was immortalized in the film Billy Jack. That movie featured what was, at the time, one of the most "realistic" fight scenes ever filmed—the protagonist taking on multiple assailants in a city park. The scene included GM Han's famous demonstration: "I'm going to take this right foot and wallop you on that side of...
The Single Difference Between a Badass and a Bully: Four Words That Change Everything It's that time of year again—when we make resolutions, promises, and plans to live a better life. And that's genuinely a good thing. Filling your life with hope and aspirations is essential for growth and fulfillment. But as so often happens, after a few days, weeks, or months, so many of us get derailed from those hopes and dreams. And like countless people I've heard from over the years, they'll have...
The Human Operating System: Why Everyone Should Train in Martial Arts A little while back, I explored the idea that following your passion can actually be a recipe for failure. The key lesson for me was this: Be rigid on the experience you seek—the goal—but flexible on the means of having that experience—the journey. Through that exploration, I discovered that there are twelve universal experiences all human beings desire, and we're typically driven by three to six of them at any given time....