31 May 2014
When I’m not working, sat at a computer creating things or spending time
with my family I can usually be found helping people with their studies
of the martial art of Jiu Jitsu. I’ve been doing this for well over a
decade and like to think I have developed at least some modicum of
aptitude in helping people develop the a range of physical, mental and
emotional skills to allow them to advance in their studies. But no
matter how much teaching I do and how many techniques, approaches and
lessons I develop myself it is the lessons of my first instructors that
I come back to time and again as being some of the simplest and most
useful.
Like many lessons in the martial arts there is a deep wisdom to be found
in them that is applicable beyond the confines of a dojo and equally as
relevant in the walls of an office. I’d like to share one of these with
you today.
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