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Beautifully said. Seriously. Well stated. Yes, I cannot agree more that you need challenges like what Sedol faced. He admitted playing AlphaGo made him a be

Beautifully said. Seriously. Well stated. Yes, I cannot agree more that you need challenges like what Sedol faced. He admitted playing AlphaGo made him a better player. I too feel same whenever I get challenged but there is difference of the challenge's virtue depending on the outcome. An emotionally strong deeper understanding stable person will possibly see growth, but the flipside is someone not ready/incapable/not mentally mature enough will probably get their souls crashed. In martial arts, we always fight against a belt above as one cannot better one self being challenged by stagnant skill level. One of the main reason why I like coding. Even if similar task, I try a different path to challenge myself.

Jugurtha 6y ago
>An emotionally strong deeper understanding stable person will possibly see growth, but the flipside is someone not ready/incapable/not mentally mature enough will probably get their souls crashed. Hasn't that been true since the dawn of time? I argue that this is how we grow. I often tell friends that I believe that the growth of people and societies is proportional to the number of difficult conversations they've had, either with themselves, others, or as a society. Educators and societies that shield ego too much produce entitled dipshits in my opinion. Those who try to protect themselves from being hurt are holding onto one end of a rubber band whose other end is stretched further by Certainty, and Certainty will certainly let it go at some point. The longer you hold on to that end of the rubber, the more painful it will be when Certainty releases its end. >In martial arts, we always fight against a belt above as one cannot better one self being challenged by stagnant skill level. My Judo instructor did it differently. We'd all be jogging in different directions. He'd pick one randomly. We'd form a random queue from the configuration at the moment we stopped jogging. Champion/Challenger: 0: The person who was picked is (Champion) 1: (Champion) pops someone from the queue (Challenger). 2: (Champion) fights (Challenger) 3: If (Champion) wins then (Challenger) is eliminated 4: Go to 1 5: If (Challenger) wins then (Champion) is eliminated 6: (Challenger) becomes the new (Champion) 7: Go to 1 You end up matching with people of different belts, different compositions, weights, speeds, execution, order. You're exposed to all kinds of strange and at different energy levels.
- RemingtonLak 6y ago
  >growth of people and societies is proportional to the number of difficult conversations they've had, either with themselves, others, or as a society So eloquently stated. Undeniably true for an entire society to grow emotionally, spiritual and mentally. We need to elevate the entire society thus education both academia and emotion IQ needs to rise. Just look at the current state of affairs in this country; USA. The division is so very sadly clear. Stating facts is like explaining quantum mechanics to a 1st grader. Kool judo practice but little intimidating for lower belts or you all were equals? That makes more sense.
  - Jugurtha 6y ago
    >Kool judo practice but little intimidating for lower belts or you all were equals? That makes more sense. No, not equals. This is Judo. If I were not okay with "intimidation" I would have been doing kung-fu or any sport where oponents follow a script or don't compete at all.
    - RemingtonLak 6y ago
      I hear what you're saying but I feel differently. I've done Okinawan Shudokan as well as Judo/Jiu Jitsu/Kenpo/taekwondo with my fav being Shudokan being the purest and most spiritual of them all. I feel lower ranking to fight against much more experienced instill a sense of impending doom unless your confident level is so high, it can exceed fear. Now granted you need that fearlessness to be successful but I feel until you have grasped sensible baseline fundamentals and grow in confidence. I think it will work against them in learning. They would tend to spar more reserved and timid actions. Whenever I was challenged by lower rank. I was the one who got hurt the most because they tend not to have any control :) By the way, if you're sparring in a compassionate env is one thing but when your senior jams and/or breaks your fingers/toes and continuous unrelenting. Yeah, a little fear tends to creep in when you're sparring higher rank.

Jugurtha 6y ago

>An emotionally strong deeper understanding stable person will possibly see growth, but the flipside is someone not ready/incapable/not mentally mature enough will probably get their souls crashed. Hasn't that been true since the dawn of time? I argue that this is how we grow. I often tell friends that I believe that the growth of people and societies is proportional to the number of difficult conversations they've had, either with themselves, others, or as a society. Educators and societies that shield ego too much produce entitled dipshits in my opinion. Those who try to protect themselves from being hurt are holding onto one end of a rubber band whose other end is stretched further by Certainty, and Certainty will certainly let it go at some point. The longer you hold on to that end of the rubber, the more painful it will be when Certainty releases its end. >In martial arts, we always fight against a belt above as one cannot better one self being challenged by stagnant skill level. My Judo instructor did it differently. We'd all be jogging in different directions. He'd pick one randomly. We'd form a random queue from the configuration at the moment we stopped jogging. Champion/Challenger: 0: The person who was picked is (Champion) 1: (Champion) pops someone from the queue (Challenger). 2: (Champion) fights (Challenger) 3: If (Champion) wins then (Challenger) is eliminated 4: Go to 1 5: If (Challenger) wins then (Champion) is eliminated 6: (Challenger) becomes the new (Champion) 7: Go to 1 You end up matching with people of different belts, different compositions, weights, speeds, execution, order. You're exposed to all kinds of strange and at different energy levels.

RemingtonLak 6y ago
>growth of people and societies is proportional to the number of difficult conversations they've had, either with themselves, others, or as a society So eloquently stated. Undeniably true for an entire society to grow emotionally, spiritual and mentally. We need to elevate the entire society thus education both academia and emotion IQ needs to rise. Just look at the current state of affairs in this country; USA. The division is so very sadly clear. Stating facts is like explaining quantum mechanics to a 1st grader. Kool judo practice but little intimidating for lower belts or you all were equals? That makes more sense.
- Jugurtha 6y ago
  >Kool judo practice but little intimidating for lower belts or you all were equals? That makes more sense. No, not equals. This is Judo. If I were not okay with "intimidation" I would have been doing kung-fu or any sport where oponents follow a script or don't compete at all.
  - RemingtonLak 6y ago
    I hear what you're saying but I feel differently. I've done Okinawan Shudokan as well as Judo/Jiu Jitsu/Kenpo/taekwondo with my fav being Shudokan being the purest and most spiritual of them all. I feel lower ranking to fight against much more experienced instill a sense of impending doom unless your confident level is so high, it can exceed fear. Now granted you need that fearlessness to be successful but I feel until you have grasped sensible baseline fundamentals and grow in confidence. I think it will work against them in learning. They would tend to spar more reserved and timid actions. Whenever I was challenged by lower rank. I was the one who got hurt the most because they tend not to have any control :) By the way, if you're sparring in a compassionate env is one thing but when your senior jams and/or breaks your fingers/toes and continuous unrelenting. Yeah, a little fear tends to creep in when you're sparring higher rank.