Do you know what to do after establishing your goals?
Once you have established what your goals are, set out to learn the techniques that help you move toward them.
As you study, pay careful attention to each component of each technique, making sure that you understand not only how to do it, but also why it is done a certain way and what it is intended to accomplish. Many new students of martial arts try to invent techniques. While their creative spirit is admirable, techniques invented by novices are not very effective or efficient. Creativity in martial arts, as I explained in Budo Mind and Body, is the expression of mastery, not a means of achieving it. Many great martial artists have come before us, perfecting the skills of their arts for hundreds of years, so it pays to be humble about your own ability to create something new.
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The very act of striving for mastery is one of the cornerstones of our progress toward perfection of character. As we practice our skills over and over, each time refining them, we begin to get at the essence of martial arts.
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