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title:: Books / GTD - Progressive Summarizations - The “Ready State” of the Martial Artist collapsed:: true - (add from bruce lee elbow stance — immovable elbow ) id:: 62cc9dec-5e7e-4c2d-9489-d64ce937095d - **Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.** - Most people give either more or less attention to things than they deserve, simply because they don’t operate with a mind like water. - Raise the bar about how much pressure you will allow yourself to tolerate, knowing you have the techniques to reduce it. - Most stress they experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept. - Mind like Water - Imagine throwing a pebble into a still pond. **How does the water respond? The answer is, totally appropriately to the force and mass of the input; then it returns to calm.** - In karate there is an image that’s used to define the position of perfect readiness: “mind like water.” - Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax. - The power in a karate punch comes from speed, not muscle; it comes from a focused “pop” at the end of the whip. - **Swing** Books/Mind Over Water - Rowers have a **==word for this frictionless state: swing==**. . . . Recall the pure joy of riding on a backyard swing: an easy cycle of motion, the momentum coming from the swing itself. The swing carries us; we do not force it. We pump our legs to drive our arc higher, but gravity does most of the work. **We are not so much swinging as being swung.** - The boat swings you. The shell wants to move fast: Speed sings in its lines and nature. Our job is simply to work with the shell, to stop holding it back with our thrashing struggles to go faster. Trying too hard sabotages boat speed. - Trying becomes striving and striving undoes itself. id:: 62fa8eb8-fa7b-406f-ba29-75abe412a98d - **Social climbers strive to be aristocrats but their efforts prove them no such thing. Aristocrats do not strive; they have already arrived.** #Status id:: 62cc9dec-7fff-4291-9999-e0db3cd9e722 - Swing is a state of arrival. - What if you could dedicate fully 100 percent of your attention to whatever was at hand, at your own choosing, with no distraction? - You can experience what the martial artists call a “mind like water” and top athletes refer to as the “zone,” within the complex world in which you’re engaged. - In order to deal effectively with all of that, you must first identify and capture all those things that are “ringing your bell” in some way, clarify what, exactly, they mean to you, and then make a decision about how to move on them. - You must use your mind to get things off your mind id:: 62a14c70-28be-48f6-ab3b-6b85f8c89868 - Horizontal and Vertical Action Management collapsed:: true - todo - - Block Reference -