From martial arts: accept that you are terrible because you have no experience; a year of practice makes you a year better. Combat and solo sports remove excuses and check the ego.
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- Eight years of aikido in Budapest
Grant trained aikido for eight years in Budapest, plus other arts. Even a forward roll is clumsy at 24; a basic boxing jab turns out complicated. Seeing beginners after a year, and advanced…
- Muay Thai, soccer and tennis
Tamir did Muay Thai for years and played soccer, where you can blame the ref, the pass or the ball. Now in tennis and especially fighting, there is no one else to blame, which keeps the ego…
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- Being terrible is the price of entry
In any discipline the beginner must accept being bad; after a year of practice you see beginners and realize how far you've come.
- Take a beginner's class
Join a martial arts or other class where you have no skills, to learn humility and see incremental progress.
That was a nice thing to learn from the martial arts: it's okay to be terrible, because you don't have any experience.