But a master, rather in condemning himself for his ordinariness, he embraces his ordinariness and uses it as a foundation to build the extraordinary. Instead of giving up, like ordinary people do, a master uses his ordinariness to correct his errors, which is essential in the process towards attaining mastery.
Correcting the errors. We all make mistakes. And we all learn differently from those mistakes, all grow in different ways. If two people make the same mistake then it is not guarenteed that they will both take the same lesson away.
The best way to find mistakes for me is having someone point them out. I know that it will not be this way forever, but I truly learn the best by watching others and then mimicking how they do it. If something still feels off I restart my thinking and try a different approach. And although I know that my eye for detail has definitaly changed throughout my years at Silent River I still have trouble sometimes identifying what is wrong with a move.
Just tonight in class I was corrected on my downward foot block as I was twisting my hand in a way that would not be effective in the block. I corrected it and it felt so much better.
What I guess I am trying to say is that we don't always realize we have errors. That we need an extra set of eyes and a helping hand to set us straight.
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