Thread by @KapilGuptaMD

BECOMING A LEGEND

If one truly seeks to become a Legend

He cannot "workshop" or "technique" or "practice" or "be instructed" toward such a height

If he could, there would be legends on every corner

A legend is not one who is "better"

He is the one who has learned the Secrets of the game

Where novice practitioners forever live in the domain of trying, hitting, missing, failing, and succeeding

The Legend never misses

The reason that the Legend does not miss is not because he is "better" or "smarter" or "works harder"

It is because he has figured out the secrets of the game

These secrets may have come by way of his own pursuit

Or they quite literally may have been given to him (This will not sit well with the "hard work and fairness" people)

But in either case, they will had to have a particular form of DNA

This form of DNA is required to ask the sort of questions he must have asked in order to discover the secrets

And this DNA will also be required to attract the sort of individual into his life who will give him the secret

For without it, he will not have the ears for it

Everything is "figure-out-able"

Everything.

99.99 percent of the humans in any domain do not believe this

They believe that they must "deserve success" through "hard work"

For this is how they have been conditioned

And they pay an unimaginable price for this

The Truth is rarely reasonable, logical, or even intuitive

And it certainly is not democratic.

It is always in a place that only a human being with a particular DNA would even think to look

Becoming a Legend is becoming a Master

It is timing the pattern of the incoming tide

It is understanding the pattern of the mind's reactions to a given circumstance

It is, as Gordon Gekko remarked, "Picking that rabbit out of the hat while everyone wonders how I did it"

It took me a while to learn that this world, and this society, is built by and created for a particular human

It is made for the human who is not interested in The Truth

It is made for the human who is interested in the romantic glory of struggle more than arrival

The training to become a legend cannot be had on Main Street

For main street is for "town folk"

Main street is for the window shoppers, the commoners, and the passersby

Mains street is for the unserious

A legend trains far away from coaching groups, institutions, and the sounds of street cars and bus horns

He, in a manner of speaking, trains in a cave

Out of reach of the conditioning and poisonous tentacles of the rabidly false philosophies that dominate his industry or sport

The legend's mind is not conditioned to doing twenty things

It has been trained, reformed, and reformatted to discovering the One thing that controls twenty

If I may be honest, I am very hesitant to speak with anyone about such things

For I am bombarded by endless questions

This is natural

For to be exposed to the intricacies of the Mind, there must first be a background and context

Without a context, there can only be questions

I will state The Truth in raw form

Realizing that it will be heard by perhaps only One

Everything that is written about practice, technique, hard work, achievement, human potential, the mind, and so on

Every book, article, and philosophy

Is, regrettably, just plain wrong.

Hard work does not work. For it is an anxiety

Striving is based upon hope

Sports psychology is cosmetic behavior change and positive thinking

Self-talk incites a Mind which talks back

Degrees barely take one to mediocrity

Repetition is overrated

Once a person learns the ins and outs of becoming a Legend

Or if one were to ask the one who became a legend

He would be simply devastated to learn just how completely divorced The Truth is from what he has ever heard, learned, or read about

Simply. Devastated.

Namaste.