Friday, October 15, 2010

How to find your fighting spirit

I said in the comments below that stubbornness and willfulness comes from fear and the fighting spirit is something else. It is very easy to confuse the both. One comes from the ego and the other is the spirit.

Observe that the ego cannot learn. Read here. And the ego does not like the spirit. And without the fighting spirit you cannot change course. The ego denies evidence.

The Japanese martial artists learned this, my three mentors knew this. The fighting spirit in our chess community is weak. And until we strengthen it we will not have that GM. Why do I say that? I was looking around for signs of strength in the blogs when First GM's Asean initiative was attacked. Many people know the true story and many people benefited from it. But no one spoke up. When Adzlin was attacked, no one spoke up and yet I know a few people that have benefited directly from the money given by her husband. So where will you find the fighting strength to defend one helpless child?...... Our next GM.

I do not need to defend our position. You see, this is about you...with every act of courage you perform you strengthen your spirit and with every act of cowardice you strengthen the ego. And only when the fighting spirit of this whole community is strong, will our GM come. For right now he is still a kid and he is learning from us.

The ego sometimes need a battering to wake us up. But in our blindness we are instead killing the spirit. Use the spirit, it can learn and it can learn fast. Keep the ego and we will still be here in 30 years.

The spirit can learn and grow. The spirit cannot be stopped. It will keep learning till the GM comes. The strength of your spirit will determine the speed of when it will come. Am I making sense or do you know this already?

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