I find that my greatest education comes from pursuing capabilities/ideals to a point where I could fail…where sometimes I DO fail.  Once I hit that point, the humbling stress of life shows me how to improve.  This practice should be devoid of machismo, as staying constantly redlined is detrimental to the body and psyche.  

But like a meticulous athlete, I can use this approach to reach levels of conditioning where  “grueling activities” become nothing more than a warm-up.

IMHO, it is essential to learn how to handle yourself physically, mentally, emotionally…so that it is harder for others to handle YOU.  

Then it becomes a matter of passing that knowledge on (to someone who is receptive), and you have done your part to make humanity a collection of bad mofos.  

One of the best times to open your mind and learn is when you’re so pissed you want to kill the teacher.

It takes courage to temporarily set aside what you are good at, suffer through what you are bad at, and then proceed forward as a more evolved/capable entity.  

Part of creating a successful routine in any form of training is to incorporate more changes (upon reaching a degree of fluidity and smoothness) that stave off comfort.  

So eventually, a good routine will be an unending chain of transitions from one smooth action to the next, and you will no longer be in a routine, or even in training, but in an unending flow of self-expression.

There’s a lot that’s not up to us according to birth and circumstance.  And although the idea of free will is ultimately debatable, I’ll hold firm in my belief that whatever happens to us, we have the choice to either move forward into awareness…or backwards into blind perpetuation.

Art is the practice of using [keypads/paintbrushes/voices/bodies/etc.] to accurately beam feelings, concepts, and entire worlds into each others’ brains.  

In a sense it’s a form of telepathy, and IMHO, we’d be remiss to not take advantage of it.  

The key to precision is being disciplined and aware:  The discipline to grind away, and the awareness to know when to relax.