In martial arts training (same for military, or police, etc) the process is to suck your brains out then have your teacher reinstall them in the proper order. In my previous training, the brain removal process has been fairly slow process. I started my Yondon (understood as 4 degree black belt although that is a misnomer) training tonight. My brains were sucked out in the matter of 4 minutes. It was painful. I feel stupid and totally inadquate.
This type of training is very difficult for me. I am not gifted physically (insert last person picked for any game story here). As a person with above average intelligence, I tend to overthink. Not kinda overthink, but Olympic gold medal overthinking. This is a bad combination. I have 2 months to get my crap together.
Good luck, man!
ReplyDeleteOh, am I supposed to say "luck"? I'm not sure whether practitioners of eastern arts are like Christians, where you're not supposed to say "luck"...
So, um... May the cosmos be with you, dude!
I have trouble shutting my brain off, too.
I used to try to shut it down.
I don't try anymore.
Turns out, that was the way to actually do it.