HardWorker

An example would be four posts up where I said that I believe that if you practice a certain skill more often you will get better at it sooner, contra...

Philosophy can have many definitions but in the context in which Im talking about it I see it as "a pursuit of wisdom" and "a theory underlying or reg...

Even philosophies that have been around for hundreds or thousands of years can be wrong. Philosophies are created by man and so as with anything else ...

As a matter of fact I do. I once heard a story of a fellow who asked a karate instructor how long it would take to get a black belt. The instructor sa...

Im not talking about short term goals, Im talking about long term life changing goals.

Let's face it, you've only got so long before you get old and you've only got so long to live.

Oh but they do, when I give myself a time limit to reach a goal I do so for a reason.

That's exactly what I'm talking about, if the delay involves missing important deadlines.

Exactly. And other people should not prevent you from reaching your goal within your self appointed time limit.

My point exactly. The problem is when outside forces sometimes make you take longer.

Well you don't want to cut corners or ignore safety protocols in order to save time because if you do not only will you not achieve your goal but the ...

All the examples you mention (wanting to retire at 40, wanting to be a concert pianist at 20, ect.) are examples of goals with time limits but you als...

Well it's the part about being time bound that Im specifically talking about. If you've ever heard of Balamurali Ambati he's a medical doctor and he w...

It's just that I've heard that belts in the martial arts can result in toxic ego effects, a discussion that's come up in the martial arts community. M...

Well the grading system for academics isn't perfect or foolproof but it does give a general idea of how much somebody has learned the material. Yes it...

I don't know what dojo your daughter went to but from my experience, and I've been to multiple dojos, is that you're usually not expected to help teac...

I didn't appeal to my dojo although the issue has been resolved albeit way too late. Appealing to dojos is not the solution the way I see it. The way ...

The AKA is just one organization that teaches Karate in the USA. Many dojos in the USA in fact are independent and don't belong to any organization ot...

But when you take up an activity in a certain country(such as the USA) that activity is adopted to the culture of the country where you're doing it, e...

So you had some good goals and even if you didn't get a black belt in 4 years as you were hoping to, at least you know why as you said you were moving...

This was not my sensei who had the "patience" requirement for black belt that I described in my first post, it was somebody else who mentioned that he...

But you are being taught patience whenever you're being taught technical skills or anything else for that matter. Why? Because it takes patience to de...

But a black belt should be proof of skills. Getting a black belt means you've honed your skills in a way that meets your sensei's standards and to an ...

I've just been occupied with other stuff so I haven't been back to the forum for awhile.

Maybe if they put in extra hours every week in their training they'll get it done in less then 8 years.

If you try to type faster than you're able to of course you're going to make errors and you will have to go back and correct them which will take more...

Thank you everybody for the feedback. I've got some old threads that I would like to say more stuff on, I will get to it. :smile:

I really like that chart, thanks.

So you must handle it much better than Paris did from Gilmore Girls when she didn't get into Harvard.

So perhaps a better way to put it would be, "nothing ventured nothing gained, and that includes not gaining stuff you don't want," since when you do v...

You risk pain, that's how I see it. When you don't get the job promotion you wanted its painful. When you don't get into the college you wanted to get...

Well even if you aren't losing anything the fact remains that rejection can be very painful, painful to the point in which it might lead to suicide, a...

So you're saying that when you get rejected you aren't losing anything because whatever you got rejected from was stuff you didn't have in the first p...

Lets say you were hoping to get a promotion. You were looking forward to getting the promotion, you were looking forward to taking on the new position...

What you could lose by not getting the promotion is that your ego could be hurt and your hopes could be dashed, so there's that to lose.

Speaking as somebody whose got a four year college degree in Psychology I would have to say that Psychology is both a hard science and a soft science....

So there you have it, when you mention that you both retain authority over your part of the agreement that means they do have some authority. Im not s...

But even without the collective power, even if you've got just one person working for you, you've still got to pay them enough so that they will work ...

But if you rely on somebody else they do have authority over you in some form even if you think you're the one who has the authority. Lets say you're ...

So anyway, to earn the rank of Eagle Scout in Boy Scouts there are minimal time requirements. Before you can be an Eagle Scout you have to be a Life S...

Maybe not. Who knows? Its just a theory.

No, or at least I don't know of any proof, its just that some people believe that's how the universe got started. Apparently because humanity hadn't c...

To everybody who replied, thank you for all your great replies. :-) Anyway, here is a video of zombie Paris having her meltdown about not getting into...

So sometimes its not change but lack of change that we have an aversion to, to be specific, lack of desired change. For example, lets say a high schoo...

So anyway, concerning patience, I recently completed this program where I learned about jobs with deadlines. Lets say you've got a job where you have ...

This is obvious but it does vary from person to person, just how hard life is for somebody. But some people might choose to have things hard. In schoo...

So in other words, you're saying option B takes more patience.

Im not sure I quite understand, first you talk about how option A requires more patience because it takes you longer to reach your goal but then you s...

Space is four dimensional. Time is just another form of space along with height, width, and depth. Time can be defined as, "the space between two inte...