Learning to fight: or more precisely learning an alive martial art (one that entails sparring) Getting tapped out or beaten up over and over develops a kind of

Learning to fight: or more precisely learning an alive martial art (one that entails sparring) Getting tapped out or beaten up over and over develops a kind of calmness and humility that transfers well to other situations in life. After you've fought someone on stage in front of friends and family, it's difficult to find other experiences particularly scary. It lets you tap into a number of deep and ancient aspects of being human, in a safe and productive way (assuming you are able to find a good, disciplined school, and not one run by people with egos).