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"All these men recognized what they themselves valued, and lived according to these values regardless of their relationship to the values of their community. Each lived according to what brought them happiness and peace rather than commonplace prescriptions of the multitudes."

Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu

"The secular world often finds its constituents disenfranchised and solitary as it has spent a great deal of time debating the religious community while failing to build a true community of its own."

Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu

"Your progress as a Jiu Jitsu practitioner is a direct reflection of the standards you have for yourself."

Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu

"The best yardstick for our progress is not other people, but ourselves. Am I better than I was yesterday? This is the only question worth asking. As long as you go to bed at night a better practitioner than the one who woke up that morning, you have succeeded. Your worth should have nothing to do with how your progress stacks up relative to another."

Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu

"Mastery lies on an infinite continuum, and as a result we will never reach the end. We can, however, see to it that we are as far along that continuum as our circumstance allows."

Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu

"True mastery, it turns out, is not found in accumulating each and every tool under the sun. True mastery is learning that there are really only a handful of tools, and it is the proper application with correct timing and setting that makes them so useful."

Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu

"I have always found that effort is most easily produced when performed for the benefit of something external to ourselves."

Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu

"Properly directed thoughts result in properly directed actions. The only way to appropriately guide our thoughts is to know their foundation, our values."

Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu

"When we know our values, we can easily measure whether or not our actions are in accordance with them. Values are the measuring sticks with which we determine the worthiness of our actions. To be better associated with one's own values is to remove a lot of the needless activities of daily life."

Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu

"To know our values is to have a foundation on which to build a great life. Our environment and education will play a large part in influencing our formulation of this world view, but is ultimately ourselves that have the final say. We must decide what we value, and then live accordingly. After all, in the eyes of the world we could achieve great success, but if our actions do not coincide with what we ourselves truly deem worthy, we will find no peace."

Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu

"The best indicator of a man's philosophy is not what he reads or says, but the way in which he lives his life, the way in which he acts."

Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu

"Autopilot is great, and removal of thought is one of the highest ideals of training. But removal of thought in the moment must be preceded by purposeful thought beforehand."

Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu

"Have a clear-cut plan on what you wish to improve, and seek opportunities to improve it. The more conscious and honest we can be about our shortcomings, the more strength we will have to improve them. We are going to train hard anyway, we are not going to sweat any more or less. It is simply imperative that the sweat is properly directed."

Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu

"Life is so unlikely, so rare and beautiful an opportunity it is to live, we must be on constant guard to ensure that our actions are worthy of the life it takes to perform them."

Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu

"This philosophy teaches us to leave safe harbor for the rough seas of real-world experience, and to accept that a rough copy out in the world serves us far greater than a masterpiece sitting quietly on our shelves."

Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu

"In the history of history, there has never been someone with your particular genetic make-up or life experiences. This being the case, we have no reference points with which to compare ourselves, and therefore it is futile to attempt to measure yourself relative to others."

Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu

"When we honestly take stock of our ability, we are then granted the opportunity to improve our circumstance. Accessing where you stand is the only way to stand somewhere else."

Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu

"It appears, at least from my perspective, that each and every position in Jiu Jitsu regardless of the seeming complexity is really governed by no more than a handful of minimum viable products. Pursue to understand these essentials, and you will see that complexity is a myth perpetuated by lack of understanding, and it is this understanding which is possible for each of us."

Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu

"Any advanced student will tell you the best way to recover guard is simply not to get your guard passed in the first place."

Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu

"In Jiu Jitsu, we often fall into the trap of simply trying a technique "harder," rather than recognizing that it is a poorly chosen tool for the task at hand."

Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu

Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu

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