Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
"It is a shock to many college graduates that their segway into the real world is one of obligation, profound debt, and countless sacrifices of the soul."
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"It is a shock to many college graduates that their segway into the real world is one of obligation, profound debt, and countless sacrifices of the soul."
Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
"Anyone can be tough for a season. It takes a special kind of human to rise to life's challenges for a lifetime."
Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
"We can lose the roll, we can lose position, but we can constantly strive to win the moment."
Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
"Life is a constant build up and release of tension. If we go too far in either direction bad things happen."
Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
"I have never been as alive or awake as I have been through Jiu Jitsu."
Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
"Anyone who has ever achieved anything has been a steward of his potential."
Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
"If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves."
Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
"I have found the more worthwhile something is, the more of your life is required to achieve it."
Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
"The greatest effects we have on the world are the ones we can never see."
Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
"I am acutely aware that all I have been able to achieve has been in large part due to circumstances outside my control. This is why I teach, and this is why I write. I want to be one of those opportunities for others. Perhaps this is the true measure of success."
Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
"Nothing worthwhile ever came from divided attention."
Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
"The day-to-day grind of adult life brings with it a tedium that weighs heavily on our powers of attention. The same experiences, at the same time and place, day in and day out, breed a familiarity that blunts our senses."
Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
"In the modern world we are surrounded by so much abundance that we cannot see it."
Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
"We are never truly ourselves as we are mid-roll."
Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
"We have an obligation to ourselves to foster the environment that allows for our self-actualization. Rather than my gifts serving me, I must serve them. I want to be a steward of the best aspects of my character and assist them in their fulfillment through proper discipline and habits."
Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
"We are the estranged orphans of our nations and tribes, and we now bear the weight not of survival of the group but of personal identity."
Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
"There is an opportunity cost for everything we do. This is why we must have the awareness to ensure that what we are pursuing is really what we value, because the pursuit leaves countless lost opportunities in its wake. We choose one experience at the sacrifice of all other experiences."
Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
"We can either approach Jiu Jitsu through the lens of the "real world" or we can approach the real world through the lens of Jiu Jitsu. I have found the latter to be far more rewarding."
Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
"In whatever we do, we should be investing in ourselves and not our jobs. Everything I have ever pursued has been for the sole goal of who I was becoming in its achievement. I competed and fought because of the man I became. This is the only worthwhile victory. You cannot take the trophies with you."
Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
"Today's world is flooded with participation trophies. In an attempt to promote equality we have robbed our youth of the most growth-inducing aspect of competition, failing. If you want to be resurrected, you have to first be crucified. Everybody wants to be reborn, but no one is willing to die. Losing, in the context of whatever arena it may be, is a microcosmic death. When we learn from our failures and grow because of them, we are reborn."
Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
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