![]() ![]() Again I struck it with all of my might - yet it was not wounded! I then tried to grasp a handful of it but this proved impossible. On the sea, I thought of all my past training and got mad at myself, and punched the water! Right then - at that moment - a thought suddenly struck me was not this water the very essence of gung fu? Hadn’t this water just now illustrated to me the principle of gung fu? I struck it but it did not suffer hurt. “After spending many hours meditating and practicing, I gave up and went sailing alone in a junk. This is when he first used water as a metaphor: By crashing through the mountain you can scatter and eliminate your problems like bowling pins.Īs a young martial artist, Bruce was unable to understand an instruction Ip Man, his then teacher had given him. Sometimes you cannot see a manifold of solutions by looking over them. If your problems become a huge mountain, you do not know how to climb over it. ![]() ![]() When faced with a wall water will find a way through, it is one of the most powerful elements on Earth. “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” In a nutshell, adaptability is crucial for personal growth and success! Conforming will allow you simply to adjust to your new situation. By adapting you will face your fears, and gain the strength to change something to suit you. Be yourself, don’t copy the behavior of others. So, when meeting new colleagues, fellow students or club/team members, don’t conform. To adapt = (verb) to change or to change something, to suit different conditions or usesīruce used water as an example because it adapts, fits into and becomes whatever it is poured into. To conform = (verb) to behave according to the usual standards of behavior that are expected by a group or society. Some have confused this theory with ‘conforming’. “Fear comes from uncertainty, we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better” Once spilled, a pool of water will fill every crack and crevice, unafraid to explore its new surroundings, unafraid to explore what is beyond, the unknown, unspecified and unfamiliar.Īt this point most of us feel ‘fear’ and a sudden desire to resist, come to a standstill. So, what does all this mean and can we learn from it? ![]()
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