Final Assignment
The martial arts have impacted the world so much already and reading through the Men of Steel Discipline book i have seen so many success stories. But success does not come easily. In George Harris’ biography he spoke about how some dojos say they can make a person a black belt in six months. And i agree with what he said which was that every person is different and that it was impossible for each person to reach that level that quickly, and that there is so much training and discipline that needs to be done to get there.
The common thread that i could see flowing through each of the biographies was discipline. Each person said that the arts made them more disciplined in some way or another. George Harris said that without the development of this discipline he would have quit the arts a long time ago. In another of the biographies it states that self discipline enables you to stay away from drugs and alcohol. He said that with this discipline there would be no use of those. Discipline is a skill that can be used in every aspect of my everyday life. It is extremely important that i am disciplined especially as a college student, in times when i need to study or do assignments this trait would be extremely useful and i wish to continue in the arts because i can see the changes in myself.
Both Gilbert James and James Fields spoke about patience saying that you should be patient at the right times and then Gilbert James learnt that patience is should be put aside when it was time to fight. And that aggressiveness is needed at some points when you must fight for what you want not necessarily fighting for fighting's sake. These traits are also transferrable the patience to wait on what we need to wait on but the aggressiveness to fight for what we want or need.
My dream is to be a Marine biologist and while not even slightly related to the arts i feel that continuing in them would give me the skills and traits that i have mentioned.Discipline in when i want to do dives and doing long research jobs, Patience to wait on results and gathering data and aggressiveness in going after jobs and stating my poit and asking for help when needed.
