“What we pour out to others, we pour out to ourselves.”
I was at the bookstore one evening looking for an interesting, challenging, but yet simple read, and ran into “Astrophysics for People in a Hurry,” by Neil DeGrasse Tyson. I found it engaging, yet demanding, yet simple enough to start--exactly what got me passionate about Jiu-Jitsu.
Dense books forces me to apply what Jiu Jitsu has taught me—the willingness to grapple with a situation that doesn’t come easy, and reaping the benefits of learning by understanding the small details, and countering the discomfort with slow observation.
How we approach learning one subject, is how we should approach learning any subject. This is how Jiu Jitsu has freed my mind, by taking away the barriers to learning.
Sometimes the motivation to grow is in it's difficulty.
Through Jiu Jitsu, I have embraced challenges and not being good at things and in the process embrace the struggle of learning by seeing it as a beautiful experience, not a torturous one.
I read this book aloud, not just for pronunciation, but for punctuation. To control the speed of my speech. Controlling the speed in which I read allows my mind to connect & understand more fully digest the subject. This is also true in Jiu-Jitsu, the speed in which you progress is dependent on how well you comprehend the concepts.
I recommend a similar approach to learning Jiu Jitsu. Learning by absorption, not just by memorization. What if we could absorb more, by going slower?
You see, when we train Jiu-Jitsu, the purpose of learning technique is to understand the connection with others; i.e. how one reacts to a punch while being grabbed. And within that we also learn the connection between our body, our mind, and emotions.
“If the smallest particles in the universe matter that much in time and space, then the minute movements in Jiu-Jitsu make a technique”