On Mastery

On our trip to Brooklyn, your mother and I (and you) went to a movie theater called: Nitehawks.

They were showing a film by the great director, Won Kar Wai.

There is a character in the film who made me think of you -- Gong Er (played by Ziyi Zhang), a young daughter of Kung Fu master, who watches her father train and practice in the garden of their home.

At one point in the film, she and the grandmaster, Ip Man, are discussing mastery of Kung Fun and this could be master of anything in life:

"Mastery has three stages: Being, Knowing, and Doing" I hope you will carry those thoughts into your own battles.

First you must be the type of person ready for the knowledge. You must find that inner stillness and will to truly understanding. Then you must work at knowing, at learning. And then, finally, you must do. And redo. And redo again until you find that doing and mastery are one.

Good night, little warrior.