As You
Think, So Shall You Become - Bruce Lee
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have been sharing the success story of world's legendary martial art player
Bruce Lee. If you never read about him. This is the chance to know him deeply
by his success secrets. The points shared over here in this article can change
your life too, if you want to change it like bruce lee said "As you think,
so shall you become"...
1) He never finished university.
Growing up a teenage in Hong Kong, Bruce would get
into fights. After a particularly bloody one involving a trip to the police
station, Bruce’s family decided to send him back to America where he was born.
In 1964, at the end of his junior year, Bruce
decided to drop out of university to head the Seattle branch of his Jun Fan
Gung Fu Institute, and dedicate himself to expanding his martial arts schools,
joining the ranks of people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, people who never
finished university and became massive successes later on in life.
Not to say that Bruce was an idiot! In fact, he
had been a philosophy major before he left the University of Washington. And
not to say you shouldn’t go to university either! But Bruce never let the lack
of a degree stop him from achieving his heart’s desires.
2) He almost
never practiced martial arts again.
In 1970, with The Green Hornet series in which
he co-starred in cancelled and finances tight, Bruce failed to warm up properly
during one of his weight-training routines and severly injured his back.
The doctors told him to rest in bed, and to
forget kung fu: he would never kick again.
To someone whom once said that everything he
learned, he learned from martial art, this would be a devastating blow. With
financial worries bearing down on him, Bruce could only lay flat on his bed for
the next three months, and for another three months be confined indoors.
But even then, he refused to let this stop him.
If he couldn’t work out his body, he could work out his mind. In those six
months he wrote furiously, penning down his own thoughts and methods of the
martial arts which he so loved.
In six months’ time, he had written eight,
two-inch volumes of notes. And in all that time, with evidence to the contrary,
he refused to believe that he wouldn’t heal; he was an avid believer that our
thoughts create our reality.
After those six months he started working out
again, moderately at first, and resumed teaching afterwards.
And even though his back would remain a source
of pain throughout his entire life, you wouldn’t think it to see the man
blazing faster in his movies than any able-bodied person.
3)His greatest
achievement came from a less
than perfect victory.
Bruce Lee’s greatest contribution to the
martial arts world was his philosophy and martial system of Jeet Kune Do. But
he didn’t make up this martial art from thin air.
In fact, the catalyst that gave birth to one of
the most efficient martial arts in the world came from a less than efficient
fight.
In the 1960s, Bruce Lee was challenged for
daring to reveal the secrets of Chinese martial arts to non-Chinese. He won the
fight, but found himself unusually winded afterwards, and was disturbed in
thinking back that even though he could have ended it in one, the fight had
taken three minutes instead.
Before that time, Bruce had been content with
modifying the traditional martial art of Wing Chun. But because of that
less-than-perfect experience, he pursued more sophisticated training methods
and rigourously dissected the martial arts for the very best that he could
find, and in time his own profound and deadly expression of the martial arts
was born.
4) He
had his opportunities
stolen from him.
Did Bruce have it easy from the get-go,
especially with someone that had such astounding skills you’d think Hollywood
would have been banging down his door to sign him on?
Hardly.
After the cancellation of The Green Hornet
series, Bruce couldn’t find much more television work. In 1969, a movie project
called The Silent Flute, which he had put in massive effort and pinned high
hopes on, fell through.
With his back still hurting, and financial
disaster on the horizon, his wife Linda had to work, while Bruce stayed at home
to watch the kids and rest his back.
During that time, Warner Brothers contacted him
with what looked like a glimmer of hope; they wanted his help to develop a TV
series based on the martial arts. He was deeply involved and gave them numerous
ideas…many of which were used in the ensuring TV series Kung Fu, starring not
Bruce Lee, but David Carradine.
Later on, Warner Brothers admitted that despite
his heavy involvement, they had never even considered him for the role.
Ironically, this was the final straw that
pushed Bruce to accept an offer by a Hong Kong film producer named Raymond Chow
to make the movie that would propel him into superstardom; The Big Boss.
Bruce turned setback into success, when he met
Raymond for the very first time Bruce told him; ‘You just wait, I’m going to be
the biggest Chinese star in the world.’
5) He practiced
immensly.
What do you think was the price of his
eye-popping feats and unbeatable athletism? Exercising two times a week and a
bottle of beer in front of the TV after?
Bruce Lee trained religiously every single day,
there are training records that suggest he practised kicks…upward to a thousand
times a day!
6)He was an
avid reader.
He had a vast library of books and loved
scouring the bookshops for more. He not only had a appetite for books on
martial arts, but he also devoured books on the personal growth writers of his
day, pioneers like Napoleon Hill, Norman Vincent Peale and Clement Stone.
He believed in personal development so much so
he once penned down this prophetic personal affirmation in 1969, 2 years before
his first hit movie The Big Boss:
I, Bruce Lee, will be the highest paid Oriental
superstar in the United States. In return, I will give the most exciting
performances and render the best quality in the capacity of an actor. Starting
in 1970, I will achieve world fame and from then onward till the end of 1989 I
will have in my possession $10,000,000. Then I will live the way I please and
achieve inner harmony and happiness.So What Was The Key To Bruce Lee’s Amazing
Success?
At the beginning of this article, I asked you
the question: what if you already had the same potential for greatness as Bruce
Lee (in anything, not just martial arts) locked within you, how would you
unlock it?
Who better to answer you than Bruce Lee
himself?
Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps
one ahead-a sort of indomitable obsessive dedication and the realization that
there is no end or limit to this because life is simply an ever-growing
process, an ever-renewing process.
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brilliant article on motivation and life.
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