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Old 10-26-2011, 02:49 PM   #19
Marc Abrams
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Re: Correctly Translating and Understanding the Works and Teachings of Morihei Ueshib

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Mary Eastland wrote: View Post
It seems like you guys say "you suck" alot . Is that part of the training?
How can we ever expect to improve unless we acknowledge that we suck a lot? Sincere training should always involved checking your ego in at the door so that you can openly embrace your inadequacies. Seems to me like people are too insecure to admit that they simply suck at certain things. It if far easier and politically correct to play in the land of niceness, but far harder to progress. What ever happened to being happy with knowing that you suck in something? I have always used that as a POSITIVE impetus to improve.

That's the way I approach it, can't speak for others though....

Marc Abrams
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