Self Improvement – What the Samurai Can Teach Us About It
A Seventeenth Century Samurai maxim states:
“A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action”
This saying is one of my personal favorites. There is so much depth to its meaning. Allow me to discuss it a little and explain how it will be able to benefit you.
First, a question: What is the single greatest thing that you can do with mastery and excellence? Don’t say: “nothing.” Everybody is good at something. Just think for a moment.
There will be one thing that you can do perfectly time and time again. It is the thing that is so ridiculously easy for you to do that you can do it with your eyes closed, almost standing on your head – so to speak. It may be a simple thing or it may be something quite complex, but whatever it is you make it look easy.
In fact, you are so good at it you make other people think that they can do it easily too – until they try. It might be a sport like tennis or something as mundane as making scones or cupcakes.
It’s amazing how a champion tennis player can...