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There’s an old saying, “Learn from your mistakes.” And of course I see the sense of this. But some students have the slightly mistifying habit of wanting to back track for everything. This can<\/strong><\/span> be useful in the martial arts but in most cases they are not such a big help. If you were composing a mathematical proof it would be essential. If you are wondering how you lost all your money in blackjack, it is probably a waste of time unless you are a card counter in which case you wouldn’t have lost all our money.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>When corrected they often say, “Really, let me see what I was doing.” There’s a lot wrong with this idea. If you made the mistake in the first place there’s a pretty good chance your skill level is just about good enough to not<\/strong><\/span> know the difference between good and bad but ALSO just about at the pont where you could not<\/strong><\/span> fix it anyway by back tracking.<\/p>\n

Let me help. Just go ahead. In Kung Fu training there are 5000 ways to do things wrong<\/strong><\/span> and about two to doing them right. If you back track through all the mistakes you are going to manufacture for the rest of your studies you will spend A LOT<\/strong><\/span> of time rethinking the unthinkable.<\/p>\n

Think of correct as being something inherently different from wrong, because it lives<\/strong><\/span> in another world. When you get there, you’ll know and the way you got there, including every mistaken step, will disappear in a pleasant shift of sun through the trees… and that will be all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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