This document discusses concepts related to freedom, creativity, innovation, and mastery. It explores how training and practice can help people stay calm in difficult situations and think strategically. It also examines how certain disciplines like yoga, Tai Chi, and parkour can shape both the body and mind. The document advocates designing for emergence and keeping practices open and unfinished in order to continuously learn and improve reality.
43. The training provides pilots with important
technical skills -- they can practice 鍖ying
crippled planes -- but it also teaches them
something more important: how to draw on
an optimal blend of reason and emotion.
They learn how to ignore their fear when
fear isn't useful and how to make quick,
complicated decisions in the most fraught
situations.
52. The Master leads by emptying
people's minds and 鍖lling their cores,
by weakening their ambition and
toughening their resolve. He helps
people lose everything they know,
everything they desire, and creates
confusion in those who think that they
know.
Lao Tzu
55. I want a girl with uninterrupted prosperity
Who uses a machete to cut through red tape
With 鍖ngernails that shine like justice
And a voice that is dark like tinted glass
She is fast, thorough, and sharp as a tack
Shes touring the facility and picking up slack
57. Tennis drills are repetitive
and relentless. They
teach the body to think,
so the mind can do
strategy.
59. Tai Chi combines
discreet movements
and a 鍖owing
sequence that shape a
tranquil mind.
61. There is nothing
secret about yoga.
The poses are well
established across
many styles. But it is a
bottomless practice
109. UB
The world is formed from the void,
like utensils from a block of wood.
The Master knows the utensils,
yet keeps to the block:
thus she can use all things.