Rising Up After Life Knocks You Down
Yeah, one of my first martial arts teachers one of the things they taught me is that you're not going to die from a punch. Very unlikely. So one of the exercises that we did many years ago when I was a kid was actually we tied our hands behind our back and then the other our partner you know, because you pair up in martial arts our partner just got to punch us and we could not punch back.
We could only bob and weave and duck and go back and you'd get hit you'd get hit and then it would be that person's turn and then they would get wearing gloves of course, but you learned that hey a punch is going to hurt, but it's not going to kill me. And so then when your hands are free you're like, oh man this is great and I'm not afraid of a punch when a punch is coming and life is like that too. You got to know that in business, in whatever you do, whatever endeavor you undertake you're going to get punched. It's going to happen.
Life has a way I don't know anybody, who's lived life who hasn't been punched. It happens. Look at all the great people throughout history. Everybody gets punched. Everybody gets knocked down. It's how you get up, how you react to those situations and so what's that mean? It's about your internal state. It's about who you are inside and how you react to the stimulus being given to you. It's not about the stimulus that's bs. all the stuff is on the periphery. It's about how you interpret it and that's really what it's all about at the end of the day.