What are the odds?

What does such a statistic have to do with your personal chance of success? Nothing at all.

~ Steve Pavlina from, What Are the Odds of Becoming a Black Belt? – Steve Pavlina

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This has nothing to do with martial arts.

If you—you reading this right now—are NOT making mistakes, you are not learning.

Put another way: If you are always certain—or if you can’t take action until you are certain—then you are not doing the work you need to be doing.

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