Top Bruce Lee Quotes
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Speaker 1:It's Friday. Tonight we go martial arts if you're on the the strike and soul challenge, you're just listening in from somewhere else. I got some good news for you today because today is Bruce Lee Friday. Bruce Lee Friday's quotes from Bruce Lee that really resonate with me recently so I'm gonna read them out to you. Bruce Lee martial artist, philosopher all around top look with lots of wisdom to distill right so let's go, let's get started.
Speaker 1:Okay first one, I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. It's true you know there's the ten thousand hour theory of mastery, you got to do something for ten thousand hours to become a master, so you do have to be repetitive. Everything we learn is through repetition, walking, talking, cycling, writing, it's all repetition, just forgot that you were doing it in school flat out and then after school. So think about it, what you needed to get, what you want to get good at, you need to repeat. And like Bruce Lee says, one thing 10,000 times watch out.
Speaker 1:Okay, mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them. Do you need to you need to admit any mistakes recently? If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done. Make at least one definite move daily towards your goal like listening to this podcast. Okay.
Speaker 1:A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at. I 100% believe in this, like even with people do like weight loss goals, oh, I want to lose, know, 25 pounds, fine, like, you've set a direction of weight loss, let's move, you might not lose 25, you might lose 19, you might lose 14, but it's not about that, it's about the destination and the journey you get to, so that's important right. You know we got the water one. Okay. So absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.
Speaker 1:Very important. So absorb what's useful. Anything I say absorb is useful for you. Some of you might be like, mate, shut up. I don't what what you just say?
Speaker 1:Can you go back 0.5 times speed? Because I have no clue what you just said. You might think none of it none of it's worthwhile, but one more and you might listen to someone you go, you know, like that. Absorb it. Discard what's not, and then, know, add your unique spin or unique personality to whatever it is that you do.
Speaker 1:Okay, showing off is the fool's idea of glory. Funny mind coming from a guy who apparently at 24 years old was such a hothead show off, so he must have had a real revelation. I think it was that fight he had but I'll go into another time. Okay. I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
Speaker 1:Very important in terms of communications with people. Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for successful personality duplicate there. Now this is confusing for some people because you know a lot of men will look at like Al Swashenig and stuff want to be him but I think what is important is you do have, like, iudels and people you look up to. And they definitely lay out blueprints. Like, you look at business, you look at people who are successful in business, they leave clues.
Speaker 1:Everything leaves clues on how to to repeat it. But what happens is what I think is good is if you are starting out and you've got no direction, it's not bad to follow someone else. Like follow someone else to start with and then once you get going, you'll realize, ah, this is more of me, this is more of me and eventually you'll get going. The same with the art, right? A lot of artists will copy each other but they'll just copy and then realize, ah, this is what I would rather do and then they do their own thing, right?
Speaker 1:It's important. Okay. A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence. Well, that's important. I mean, how would one do that?
Speaker 1:I mean, like, obviously what I say in these voice notes isn't like the be all end all. There are many world leading experts in all types of fields and know more than it. Like, there's always someone that knows more than you, isn't it? But, yeah, it is important you do the self discovery thing where you take something, go, do know what? Let me sit on that what's just been said.
Speaker 1:Same happened to me with lack like I mentioned in last one of the last voice notes like you know what emotions are stored in the well stored might not be the correct word but what emotions are held in different parts of the body. So yes, important to look into what people are saying. Okay, so it's not what you give, it's the way you give it. Do you know what's important about that? Do you know Dale Carnegie in How to Win Friends and Influence People, he talks about how, for example, if you're a father, like a parent or you're a mother and your kid asks you like please, please, please, I wanna go to this concert on Friday and it's Monday, I wanna go to concert on Friday and you're like, I'll think about it.
Speaker 1:Oh, please, please, please, I'm gonna do it and like, I'll think about it. And you just keep like you keep like just just saying no, no, no. They stop building resentment. Like, all my friends are going to stop building it. And then in the last minute you snap on the frame, okay, fine.
Speaker 1:Go take it. Right? And then they go, thank you so much. But the way you've given it is just like completely reckless in a way because they've just gone, well, I've just hated you for a week and then you finally given it. Or you could have just done, do you know what?
Speaker 1:Yeah, let's do it. Let's I'm gonna you're gonna do it. We'll plan and we'll and we'll make sure it's all done on Friday and I think it's the way that you would offer that is important, right? You want to make your kid feel like they're like always nagging you, desperate and annoying you for something to happen. That's the worst.
Speaker 1:That's just one example, you know. A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough. Yes, do not act out at the peak of your emotion, right? Stoicism 101. You can't stop your emotions.
Speaker 1:You can kind of watch them happening. You can let them flow over you and become like a third person view of it. And just remember, like, the difference between lashing out and anger and stuff like that and temper is zero point one second. You feel that flush coming and then you you need to stop your acting at that peak because if you do act at that peak, something bad can happen. I think Donald speaks about like with the Roman Emperor Hadrian who, was sitting in the courtroom and he got really angry at some, like, messenger that came and delivered a message and he, like, picked a pen up and just in his rage stabbed the slave in his eye.
Speaker 1:Right? And then the slave was like then then he felt bad after he's like, oh, shit. Shouldn't have done that. And then he asked the slave, what can I do with my goddess money? What can you do for me?
Speaker 1:Like, what what can I do for your goddess money in houses, whatever, what do you need? And the slave was like, I just want my eye back. And it's something he couldn't give with all the money Hadrian had, with all the power he had, he couldn't give back what he had taken there, there and then Xi. So yeah, be careful. Okay.
Speaker 1:And then we'll finish on this one because it's important. Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. To realize that it's just an inconvenience that is not a catastrophe but just an unpleasantness is part of coming into your own, part of waking up. Say that again, Knowing the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. To realize that it's just an inconvenience, that it's not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness is part of coming into your own part of waking up.
Speaker 1:Do not catastrophize. If you had a bad morning, that doesn't equal a bad day. You've had a bad week of you. Well, maybe you've had one bad moment in a week that you've dragged across the entire week. So whatever it is, make sure you realize that is this a catastrophe?
Speaker 1:Probably not. Is it an inconvenience? Yeah. Can I deal with it? Yeah.
Speaker 1:Is a point getting stressed out about it? No. Because more often than not the stressor, the stress response causes more damage than the stressor 100% so that you triggering the stress response and getting your body to react as if you need to run away from a lion is causing more damage and in quotes than, you know, getting a message you didn't like of a friend saying, look, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna do the Zoom quiz tomorrow, Scott, because I got time. I'll be like, could go, you're a mate, what'd you say? But I don't like, alright, no probs.
Speaker 1:Let it go. Don't let the stress response to non happy days. So I'm enjoying martial arts tonight. If you're not on the challenge, you're missing out basically. Have a good weekend.
Speaker 1:No voice notes on the weekend, but I'm sure you'll mull over some of the things that have been said. Be, you know, take things, you know, one day at a time today. Don't worry about the weekend, really. No. It's not here yet.
Speaker 1:Tom Oro is on the horizon. No doubt waiting for you, but enjoy today. Stay focused. Folk follow your one big thing. Just because it's Friday doesn't mean it's diff you know, it's a day.
Speaker 1:It's twenty four hours. It's the same twenty four hours as any other twenty four hours. Don't use it as to to throw everything away and be quite quite reckless in your decision making on Friday. But if you are gonna plan to have a takeaway or a meal out, just plan it. Plan it in.
Speaker 1:Happy days. Have a glass of wine. And, you'll you'll you'll thank yourself for that five minute of planning for that peace of mind. Have a good weekend, peeps. I'll see you for round three next week.
Speaker 1:And that's it. Thank you for listening to the one day at a time podcast with your host, Scott Fleer. Hopefully, you understood something I said. I hope that some wisdom kind of distilled through into your mind, And I want you to now action it today. I don't want you to think about tomorrow.
Speaker 1:I don't want you to think about yesterday. I don't want you to think about leaving a review on this podcast. I don't want you to think about going to another website. What I want you to do is as soon as this podcast ends, you will take action and make the most of today. Ground yourself today.
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