Like every Indian growing up a small town in southern India, I grew up watching Bruce Lee movies. Bruce Lee was the greatest and most influential martial artist in modern times and his life story has been an inspiration for generations. As an Asian, you can’t not know who Bruce Lee is. All his life has been about capturing his internal demons and conquering one goal after another. Coming from modest means, he achieved world fame both as a martial artist and as a movie star. The level to which he developed both his body and his mind in the pursuit of martial arts was simply incredible.
Bruce Lee started out with huge goals in life and achieved so much in his short life that he definitely has some motivational life lessons we can learn from.
As a kid growing up in a small town, he was a great inspiration of what you can achieve if you put your mind to it and are willing to learn. You are either living or dying and if you choose to be living, you need to be constantly learning. I took up Martial Arts at a very young age of 9 and pursued it for 6 years. Those 6 years were the toughest form of training to develop one’s body and mind and they helped me learn dedication, commitment, pursuing goal relentlessly, constantly learning new techniques, and not to be a superior fighter but to be a disciplined disciple.
My advice would be to always be open to the lessons around you no matter where they come from. Everything in life can teach you something if you are open to receiving the lesson. An 18 year old taught me more about myself in the last 3 months than I could learn in the the best of schools.
Every person has good and bad in them, but they can definitely teach you something. You cannot just restrict yourself by saying you areonly going to learn from a person who you view as only good. Even great scientist and philosophers have some bad in them if you look close enough, which does not mean you should not learn from them. You take the good with the bad and learn what you can from the person.
Bruce Lee started out with huge goals in life and achieved so much in his short life that he definitely has some motivational life lessons we can learn from.
“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.” – Bruce Lee
As a kid growing up in a small town, he was a great inspiration of what you can achieve if you put your mind to it and are willing to learn. You are either living or dying and if you choose to be living, you need to be constantly learning. I took up Martial Arts at a very young age of 9 and pursued it for 6 years. Those 6 years were the toughest form of training to develop one’s body and mind and they helped me learn dedication, commitment, pursuing goal relentlessly, constantly learning new techniques, and not to be a superior fighter but to be a disciplined disciple.
My advice would be to always be open to the lessons around you no matter where they come from. Everything in life can teach you something if you are open to receiving the lesson. An 18 year old taught me more about myself in the last 3 months than I could learn in the the best of schools.
Every person has good and bad in them, but they can definitely teach you something. You cannot just restrict yourself by saying you areonly going to learn from a person who you view as only good. Even great scientist and philosophers have some bad in them if you look close enough, which does not mean you should not learn from them. You take the good with the bad and learn what you can from the person.
I'm 32, not 18, Irfan.
ReplyDeleteDon, Who said I am learning from you?
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