Karate teachers making you learn. Not really, teachers don’t make you learn. As a student, you are not required to learn. In the United States, the law says you will attend school. The goal is to get a basic education. But that goal is missed by the law. You are required to attend a school, but you are under no obligation to learn.
Coach and Trainer
Trainers don’t make you healthy. Coaches point the way. Trainers have experience. Trainers also understand motivation, inspiration, enthusiasm.
As you think of the trainers and coaches you have experienced, they have these three elements. Superbowl winning coach Pete Carrol and David Goggins U.S. Navy SEAL are examples. The possession of motivation, inspiration, and enthusiasm are internalized.
Doctors don’t make you healthy. Your health is your responsibility, not the Doctor’s duty. Western medicine is generally designed to fix the broken, not prevent.
Your karate instructor is a teacher, a trainer, and not a doctor. You’re at the martial arts school because you want to learn. Push-ups and multiple repetitions of a movement are done to get better than that day before.
Listening and Action
You listen to the ideas in the teaching. Take notes, read books, watch videos on the martial arts, and related ideas. Some of those related ideas can be kinesiology, the study of movement and anatomy, some yoga? A change in diet. The point is you are expanding yourself on your terms.
Teachers don’t make you learn. Trainers don’t make you strong, and Doctors don’t make you healthy. But when you have the fire. The inspiration, when you are receptive when you see the value you will learn. You get better and build for the future all while being in the grove of the moment.
And here is the Pareto Distribution. The rule in its elemental version is, 80% of what happens is because of action by 20%.
You want to be in the 20% That choose to take action on your education, your training, and your health.
Look around your martial arts school. How many people are on the floor, 10? Are you one of two?
And here is the secret. When you become one of those two, the instructor will give you more. The teachers, trainers, they can’t help themselves, they are compelled to give you more.
Karate teachers making you learn?
No one makes you do your karate, but when you choose to live in the 20% your world changes. Teachers take notice, trainers recognize your work, and when Doctors rarely see you, they praise you.
Being the elite 20% is not just a wish, but an imperative.
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KRIS WILDER
Kris Wilder is a martial artist based in Seattle Washington. He has authored many martial art books, including the classic, The Way of Kata. Making no apologies for his obsession with Football he can be found telling any who will listen about the nuances of the Canadian Football League.