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Old 04-24-2014, 02:39 PM   #7
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Re: Investing In Failure

Yes. To my point, I think when confronted with actual need, our metric changes from "I want this to work," to "this needs to work." All of a sudden, we stop caring about how it works and become satisfied with the metric being successful, for any reason. This is why we pray during football games, right?

For me, adaptation is a means to successfully addressing organic variables beyond the basic process. I think a fair criticism of aikido is that we sometimes over-focus on failure metrics and that does not adequately prepare us for success methodology. When looking good is more important than it working good... you are gonna have problems.

To re-quote Mike Tyson, who was quoting Joe Frazier.... "Everyone's got a plan until they get punched in the face."

Jon Reading
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