Everything we need most is already within reach.
This thought keeps gnawing at me. And so, examples—others’ and mine—pile up like a snowball.
Lately, I sparred a guy less skilled than me. Though I ruled, he pulled off a “Tripod Sweep” a couple times. That basic move hit so timely and fast that, knowing it all, I couldn’t block it. Hmm, odd.
From my experience, that’s a sign of a “tokui waza”—a “signature move.” Some moves you “somehow” nail quick, drill with joy, and they pop out in a fight on their own.
I told the young grapplet: “Water what grows on its own,” since a “signature move” often decides matches. But his reply showed he saw no special worth in it.
Sadly, this happens to us all the time. Likely, culture drilled into us that life’s best comes only from backbreaking toil. And that good stuff, born easy or landing light, deserves no thanks or awe.
In business therapy, I keep opening folks’ eyes to their natural Gift. A founder moans progress stalls for lack of quality X, blind to the precious quality Y he’s got in spades.
Turns out, no need to chase an MBA at Stanford, gulp 40 bestsellers a year, or copy guru “secrets.”
Just take this: the answer isn’t out there—it’s inside you.
Yours sincerely,
-Alexander
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