Kung Fu Academy

Martial arts for your mind!

Today, it is the Appeal to Antiquity. The oldest things aren't always the best. Knowledge builds on everything that comes before it. Things can be seminal, but not the best.

Tutorial on Warrior Walks on Clouds, a version of tai chi walking that opens the hips, ankles and knees and exercises the legs whilst teaching load bearing and balance.

Tutorial on Carrying Water, a simple movement to increase mobility and circulation to the joints as well as gently exercising the muscles in a low impact way.

Be true to yourself.

You'll find your way.

You got this

It is like the outdated and debunked Horseshoe theory of politics. Bad faith actors would use it to pretend there was no difference in your voting choices. That all political parties "are the same".

But it is important to consider scale. If both sides are bad, do you consider that both sides are equally bad? If one person is calling you a bad name, and the other is stabbing you, do you have difficulty recognising one as worse?

The ying yang symbol is fluid, and should be represented as one yielding and the other advancing, creating a circular motion. That doesn't make it a binary. It makes it moveable scale. It makes it an interplay of duality.

Not everything is equal. The devil doesn’t need an advocate.

Wiser minds might say that there is a lesson here. The more pressure you put on something, the more it will evade you.

But stuff those nerds. Go train already.

Nothing beats consistency. Nothing. Not genetics. Not talent. Nothing.

Learning about logical fallacies, and how we fall into them feels like kung fu for the mind. You are trying to isolate your weaknesses and vulnerabilities, and create techniques to combat them.

This is why don't like when people talk about the "true" way, or the "real" whatever. It seems small minded. The world is vast, the methods expansive. Provided you are still working to excel, you are still doing kung fu.

Let a thousand blossoms bloom.

Trascript:
"Part of doing kung fu is self improvement. In that spirit, I would like to talk about cognitive fallacies. We all fall for these, so it is important to learn about them so we can safe guard against them.
The true scotsman fallacy is one that a lot of martial artist fall for. It works simply.
Person A: No scotsman had ice in their whiskey
Person 2: Fergus has ice in his whiskey, and he is from scotland.
Person A: Yes, well... no TRUE scots man has ice in his whiskey.
Just because someone does things differently, does not make them invalid."