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The Beauty of Dissatisfaction
In my non-stop travels, I was teaching a private lesson to a To-Shin Do green belt student. We were talking about the pace of progress towards brown and then black belt. My friend commented, “It’s frustrating to look at my progress and think how much faster I would be advancing if I could study with you every day instead of only a few times each year.” I could empathize. Except for my early days of karate training in the 1960s, I have always spent more time training on my own than under the watchful eye of my teacher. Even when living in Japan, I spent more nights practicing and drilling