Keep Learning - A life of Street Fighting

Too often we find ourselves feeling bored or simply too overwhelmed by the day to day challenges. And too often we take these situations or the circumstances as an excuse to push us in the corner. We let the circumstances that are generally temporary to stay with our mind for longer than what's a healthy dose! How can something that is debilitating be healthy?

Adaptability - Remove your mind from the attack

In Bruce Lee's martial art, Jeet Kun Do, one of the underlying philosophies is "adaptability". Street fight like life is unpredictable. There are times when you have to "remove the target" i.e. your mind, that is being continuously hit by this barrage of emotions; feeling of boredom, stagnation, negativity, sadness or overwhelming life challenges.

Parrying - Spend time in self-development

Other times you've to intercept these challenges. You've to push through the tough times through tools of self-control, courage, learning, and self-development. Too many times we let the challenging circumstances bury us. Rather those are the times we should come up with the strategy to attack those circumstances. Whether it is parrying of counter-moves like meditation, self-learning, or any other activities that would help us out of the situation.

Footwork - Move your mind from negativity to positivity, do not get attached to negativity

And finally, it's all about footwork, staying alive on your feet. A mind is constantly moving from one thought to another. However, we decide the playground for the mind to play. When the going gets tough, change the playground from self-pity to courage. And the mind would jump around in the playground of courage and knowledge.

You can read more about Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do here.

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