The Chinese believed that #writing and #health belonged to the same element:
The element of wood.
What applies to one field applies to the other.
The link between writing and wood should be obvious.
But health?
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The element of wood.
What applies to one field applies to the other.
The link between writing and wood should be obvious.
But health?
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'Health' isn't just healthcare.
Not just doctors and medicines and treatments.
It's a holistic perspective of health.
Physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.
This also includes training and practices to become healthy.
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Not just doctors and medicines and treatments.
It's a holistic perspective of health.
Physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.
This also includes training and practices to become healthy.
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Wood represents growth.
What do you do when you train?
You grow.
You tear down muscles and build them back up.
You develop and ingrain specific motor skills.
You thicken the myelin sheaths that insulate your nerves, allowing them to fire more efficiently.
You grow.
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What do you do when you train?
You grow.
You tear down muscles and build them back up.
You develop and ingrain specific motor skills.
You thicken the myelin sheaths that insulate your nerves, allowing them to fire more efficiently.
You grow.
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Training at the highest level is deliberate, focused practice.
Weightlifting.
Cardio.
Yoga.
Martial arts.
Meditation.
Doesn't matter. To achieve high-level results, to grow into health and strength, you need deliberate, mindful practice.
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Weightlifting.
Cardio.
Yoga.
Martial arts.
Meditation.
Doesn't matter. To achieve high-level results, to grow into health and strength, you need deliberate, mindful practice.
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Writing, too, requires mindful practice.
Building up the ability to write at #PulpSpeed is also growth.
Doing this efficiently, and maintaining that ability, also demands mindful, deliberate practice.
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Building up the ability to write at #PulpSpeed is also growth.
Doing this efficiently, and maintaining that ability, also demands mindful, deliberate practice.
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At this level of writing, you're not simply spilling words on the page.
Writing becomes a deliberate, mindful, intentional act.
The entirety of your being is focused on the act of writing, on the physical, mental and emotional processes involved.
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Writing becomes a deliberate, mindful, intentional act.
The entirety of your being is focused on the act of writing, on the physical, mental and emotional processes involved.
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Your attention is focused on a single act, on a single point.
Thus focused, you cannot be distracted.
This is the same level of concentration a high-level athlete or martial artist develops and brings to his own training and practice.
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Thus focused, you cannot be distracted.
This is the same level of concentration a high-level athlete or martial artist develops and brings to his own training and practice.
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The samurai held that the way of the warrior is the way of the pen and sword.
This is one such hidden interpretation:
Focused, mindful, deliberate practice and action.
As with the sword, so it is with the pen.
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This is one such hidden interpretation:
Focused, mindful, deliberate practice and action.
As with the sword, so it is with the pen.
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Carry this mindset of mindful action into all things.
Writing and weightlifting, swordsmanship and penmanship, whatever suits you best.
Practice with the deliberate intention of growth. Of becoming better than before. Of growing into perfect health, skill and wisdom.
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Writing and weightlifting, swordsmanship and penmanship, whatever suits you best.
Practice with the deliberate intention of growth. Of becoming better than before. Of growing into perfect health, skill and wisdom.
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Mastery of the sword leads to mastery of ten thousand things.
The mindset you carry into physical training is the same mindset you carry into writing.
By cultivating this single-mindedness, you cultivate concentration, focus, efficiency, deliberateness.
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The mindset you carry into physical training is the same mindset you carry into writing.
By cultivating this single-mindedness, you cultivate concentration, focus, efficiency, deliberateness.
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Whatever you do, seek avenues of deliberate practice outside your profession and apply the lessons to your work.
If you are a writer, seek out weightlifting, martial arts, other physical training, and apply the same mindset to both.
Such is the way of #PulpRev.
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If you are a writer, seek out weightlifting, martial arts, other physical training, and apply the same mindset to both.
Such is the way of #PulpRev.
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