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My admiration and respect for Bruce Lee
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<span class="date">[2022-12-17]</span>
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Many generations come and go and as an individual you most likely have
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few people in the past to admire and learn from them and try to
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incorporate the working some of those characteristics for you.
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And for me, Bruce Lee is one such person. I'll try to explain how and
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why his life had impacted me on my professional carrier and more so
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with my personal life. More importantly, I'm going to convey this in
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my own style without formally reading his books or books written by
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others about him.
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We all know that Bruce Lee is not just an extraordinary martial artist
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but also a deep thinker. So, that much I know from watching videos
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about him and some resources and his quotations that I learned from
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the Internet. Hence, I'm going to give a brief of what my perspectives
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about him are.
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk1lzkH-e4U" target="_blank">Bruce Lee Interview by Pierre Berton</a>
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Bruce Lee's simple philosophy of living is his explanation of "Be
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Water" portrayed in his The "Lost" Interview in Pierre Berton show.
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There is a catch in that which is very important where he says "be
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formless and shapeless". It means that if you are too rigid on
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yourself; you cannot grow and mature in your life. It can be seen in
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his fighting style that were changed and adopted during different
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phases of his life and coming up with his own martial artform called
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Jeet Kune Do.
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It doesn't end there; he also puts one more important point in that
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interview which is the yin-yang philosophy. He portrays that as - "You
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cannot be too natural or too unnatural, the ideal solution is natural
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unnaturalness or unnatural naturalness".
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This is what they say in Buddhism, walking the middle path or to put
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in other terms, the way of life is to change what you can, but never
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lose to go with the flow as well.
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One of those many thoughts of Bruce Lee that was said by his close
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knits and his students is he wants you to live by your own goals with
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your own principles and not just being a mere follower of somebody or
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himself, but expressing yourself honestly to others and to the world.
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There are many players in this world, who inspire by talk. But the man
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in the arena guy for me is Bruce Lee. Because his very living in this
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world is an example that one can succeed with hard work, determination
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and deep focus.
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