The preponderance of the Small ䷽

Roberto
2 min readAug 17, 2021

The Fighting Monkey 14 intensive just ended

during this my first “intensive” experience I been lucky enough to share conversations and ideas with smart low voices that think deep and run quiet.

During those conversations and lectures one of the ideas that I want to keep on my notebook and practice is the idea of the Inner Strength, the physical one, now I’m not talking about the power of the will, that will be necessary to obtain it. I’m now more focus on the idea of the small that cannot be taught, that part of you with that cannot talk with.

The unspeakable you.

That part of you that requires the power of the will but more than nothing to remain humble.

It’s being said that nobody can teach nobody, we learn by ourselves but going deeper, you cannot teach to yourself, you only can create the environment for learning.

Deactivate the big, the obvious, the laud part of you that society ask for and allow yourself to be vulnerable, give the chance to yourself of be excited with little, as little as possible. We had been told that being surprised by little make us naive and superficial but maybe that’s the trick to remain younger, to last with quality and love.

I do not recommend you to go mindlessly on this journey,

observe,

take care

but let it go

Do little,

very little,

you’re fragile and it must be on that way,

threat the process with care

this is not about archiving and get more,

it’s about recovering and giving value of what you already have

that you that is invisible but makes you

you

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Roberto

I try to keep my self doing mistakes everyday. Actually I’m making most of them using the Fighting Monkey practice and Parkour, sometimes BJJ and writing.