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16 Life Lessons That We Can Learn From Bruce Lee Why Lis­ten To Bruce Lee’s Life Lessons? If you’re a mar­tial artist, then it’s pret­ty obvi­ous that Bruce Lee is a per­son that is worth mod­el­ing. The level to which he devel­oped both his body and his mind in the pur­suit of mar­tial arts was sim­ply incred­i­ble. How­ev­er, it’s often over­looked just how much he accom­plished in his short life. He con­stant­ly bat­tled against racial stereo­types in devel­op­ing his movie career, and his suc­cess in this area lead him to be regard­ed as one of the most influ­en­tial mar­tial artists of our time. He start­ed out with huge goals in life and achieved so much that he def­i­nite­ly has some moti­va­tion­al life lessons we can learn from. Les­son #1 – Life Pur­pose “The key to immor­tal­i­ty is first liv­ing a life worth remembering.” You only have one life in this body so make the most of it by cre­at­ing some­thing that adds value to those around you. Les­son #2 – Lim­its “If you always put limit on every­thing you do, phys­i­cal or any­thing else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no lim­its. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” “Ever since I was a child I have had this instinc­tive urge for expan­sion and growth. To me, the func­tion and duty of a qual­i­ty human being is the sin­cere and hon­est devel­op­ment of one’s potential.” You will only grow to the lim­its that you place on your­self (and let oth­ers place on you). To truly reach your poten­tial you must for­get lim­its and real­ize you will never reach your full poten­tial in this life­time. Les­son #3 – Hap­pi­ness “Be happy, but never satisfied.” Allow your­self to be happy now and don’t wait until you’ve reached some arbi­trary goal. How­ev­er, remem­ber that every­thing in life is either grow­ing or dying, so choose which one you pre­fer for your life. Les­son #4 – Self Image “I’m not in this world to live up to your expec­ta­tions and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” “As you think, so shall you become.” You define your­self–no one else. So when you cre­ate an incred­i­ble self image for your­self you will nat­u­ral­ly grow into your own amaz­ing expec­ta­tions. Les­son #5 – Goals “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves sim­ply as some­thing to aim at.” Any goal can be reached when given enough time. So let go and just start mov­ing in the right direc­tion. Les­son #6 – Learn­ing “Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.” “A wise man can learn more from a fool­ish ques­tion than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” “Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is bet­ter than. Be not for or against.” Always be open to the lessons around you no mat­ter where they come from. Every­thing in life can teach you some­thing if you are open to receiv­ing the les­son. Les­son #7 – Action “Know­ing is not enough, we must apply. Will­ing is not enough, we must do.” “If you spend too much time think­ing about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” “Knowl­edge will give you power, but char­ac­ter respect.” There are plen­ty of peo­ple in this world who know what they have to do to get what they want. The few that suc­ceed are those who devel­op a char­ac­ter of con­stant and delib­er­ate action. Les­son #8 – Focus “I fear not the man who has prac­ticed 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has prac­ticed one kick 10,000 times.” There are many paths you can fol­low to reach your des­ti­na­tion. How­ev­er, you’ll never reach the end if you keep chang­ing paths along the way. Les­son #9 – Time “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” We all start each day with 24 hours in the bank; the dif­fer­ence is what we do with it. Les­son #10 – Fail­ure “Don’t fear fail­ure. — Not fail­ure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glo­ri­ous even to fail.” Fail­ure is a nat­ur­al part of the learn­ing process for any­thing we do. No par­ent has ever watched their child fall while try­ing to take their first steps and said, “well, I guess they’re not a walker.” So why would you do this to your­self? Les­son #11 – Per­se­ver­ance “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a dif­fi­cult one.” You are always going to have prob­lems and chal­lenges in your life. Suc­cess in any area is sim­ply learn­ing how to over­come big­ger and big­ger chal­lenges. Les­son #12 – Flex­i­bil­i­ty And Adapt­abil­i­ty “Be like water mak­ing its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If noth­ing with­in you stays rigid, out­ward things will dis­close them­selves. Empty your mind, be form­less. Shape­less, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bot­tle and it becomes the bot­tle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” Become flex­i­ble and adapt­able in your daily life and prob­lems will roll off your shoul­ders. Ten­sion is only cre­at­ed when results do not met our expec­ta­tions or per­cep­tion of how the world should be. Les­son #13 – Sim­pli­fi­ca­tion “It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.” “Adapt what is use­ful, reject what is use­less, and add what is specif­i­cal­ly your own.” When you clear your life and mind of the unessen­tial then amaz­ing things start to hap­pen. Be ruth­less in ask­ing, “does this serve my greater life pur­pose?” Les­son #14 – Rela­tion­ships “To know one­self is to study one­self in action with anoth­er person.” Let go of the behav­iors and actions of oth­ers as you can never change some­one else. Instead look at how you inter­act (and react) with oth­ers, as this is a reflec­tion of your own beliefs. Les­son #15 – Ser­vice “Real liv­ing is liv­ing for others.” Real­ize that any­thing you want in life can be obtained by help­ing oth­ers get what they want. Les­son #16 – Live In The Moment “Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.” Always focus your atten­tion on the present moment. Your past does not deter­mine your future–that comes from what you do in this exact moment.

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