[The Warrior Series] Breaking Down Limits or Breaking Down In The Process
Change is scary, its much easier to stay in a place of no loss but in turn, no progression. Burn the boats on your progression journey....
Get rich or die trying….
Go for broke….
Bet it all on black…..
These are typically phrases that are associated with a detrimental mindset of risking it all for great reward or great ruin, but to a warrior, its a way of life. The ancient warriors lived on the precipice of life and death, to them every battle was a moment where they would break their own limits in an unfamiliar situation or die.
A warrior did not have the option to simply maintain their current form, for their foes and rival armies were always growing stronger and improving their skills and technology. A stagnant warrior was a dead warrior.
This is the common theme of life:
Adapt or Die.
Unfortunately, in our modernity, the danger has been removed from our lives and consequentially, improvement has become optional. For many, its almost preferable to stay in a state of complacent stagnancy. Same apartment for years, same job for decades, no improvement of situation, no sort of new challenges, this is a very familiar place for a lot of you.
Especially in my generation.
I get it, to be quite frank with you. Any time you’re looking to get into a new venture it can be an especially terrifying endeavor. There are no guarantees after all. You can’t simply create a save point in time if your efforts to change your life don’t produce, especially when the stakes are high.
And lets be honest….
What sort of endeavor with low stakes is actually worth embarking upon? This is why we have to really take measures to guard against the pandemic of complacency and risk aversion plaguing our generations and societies. We have seen this pandemic in action with people who would be so willing to cancel their entire lives just to avoid sickness. (Even after data came out proving the mortality to be low.)
Not to bury the lead, but to see people who were complacent enough to sit at home for a year, isolated, and earning checks from the gov’t at the risk of their future was the gut punch that we all should need to see how far from intentional design of taking risks, pushing limits, and getting stronger as a result of it.
We can prattle on about and lament the loss of the one great catalyst for progress as a species but that would be beating the proverbial dead horse that is already beginning the transition into glue.
All you need to know is that we have got to get our edge back in society. Start going for broke on more things. If you have a goal that you want to achieve, burn your boats. You’re never going to commit to succeeding until there is no other option left but success.
If you fail though, you get the added toughness and resourcefulness training of being able to pull yourself back up as well as the knowledge gained from your failures. Then, the cycle repeats. This in essence is what is missing from society at the moment and we’re going to continue to see the spiral until we can cultivate this experience again.
Excellent write up. What I've told my family is that people didn't gain a year by staying home. They lost it without anything to gain. Life is short. Have experiences and create new memories. Saw too many people rehashing the past on Facebook while isolated at home