Readiness is not tension. #BINK
It is a loaded spring at peace with waiting.
The human nervous system cannot tell practice from the real thing.
No dress rehearsal.
Reality is here.
Enjoy the Hostilities My Friends.
@robinblackbink.bsky.social
@robinblackbink.bsky.socialReadiness is not tension. #BINK
It is a loaded spring at peace with waiting.
The human nervous system cannot tell practice from the real thing.
No dress rehearsal.
Reality is here.
Enjoy the Hostilities My Friends.
@robinblackbink.bsky.socialA cage can only entrap the version of you that stays still. #BINK
Imagination is weightless.
Self expression is freedom.
Creativity lives in the prison's blind spot.
Enjoy the Hostilities My Friends.
@robinblackbink.bsky.social"It simply blows." #BINK
The wind does not care if the tree believes in it.
This is a lesson about the relationship between gravity, balance, and accurate self-assessment.
Enjoy the Hostilities My Friends.
@robinblackbink.bsky.socialYou are not a finished product. #BINK
Nobody told you that the day you decided you were.
Everything you have ever gotten better at has one thing in common, and it is not talent.
Lesson one of Five Lessons on Becoming. The full episode is on my YouTube channel.
Enjoy the Hostilities My Friends.
@robinblackbink.bsky.socialYou are going to die. So is everyone you have ever loved.
Good. Carry on, then. #BINK
Nothing is owed. Nothing is ours. So nothing is lost.
Accept the end and the middle opens.
Enjoy the Hostilities My Friends.
@robinblackbink.bsky.socialEveryone wants to be the master. Nobody wants to be the student. #BINK
First, you follow the rule.
Then, you break the rule.
Then, you are the rule.
In Japan this path has a name. Shu Ha Ri.
@robinblackbink.bsky.socialBalance is not ours to cling to. #BINK
It is ours to surrender, ten thousand times, trusting it to return.
The one who stops counting the wobbles has found the Way.
Stillness does not fight chaos. It is chaos, accepted.
Enjoy the Hostilities My Friends.
@robinblackbink.bsky.socialFriendship is complicated. #BINK
A true friend is someone who knows where the bodies are buried, because he was the one who helped you dig the hole.
The dirt remembers both of you.
We don't stay clean alone.
@robinblackbink.bsky.socialEnjoy the Hostilities My Friends.
@robinblackbink.bsky.socialKhabib x Conor: Bus Attack #BINK
A wheeled contraption.
A glass window.
A man who wanted a fight so badly he threw furniture at a bus to get it.
Wild. Illogical. Frantic.
@robinblackbink.bsky.socialThe body of one, optimized and weaponized to destroy the body of another.
Enjoy the Hostilities My Friends.
•••
The Quiet River is where we train the mind that drives the body.
@stinkerbink.bsky.social
@robinblackbink.bsky.social"All warfare is based on deception."
• Sun Tzu
Touched gloves… then #BINK.
No extra malice.
No foul.
Just acceptance of the truth of combat.
@robinblackbink.bsky.socialPeople will still try to kill Chael in Brazil. #BINK
Chael is my friend.
Chael changed the game.
• Anderson Silva on Chael Sonnen
@robinblackbink.bsky.socialEven at your best, things happen that were never yours to control.
#BINK of the Week
Control what is yours.
The rest is none of your business.
Trying to steer the uncontrollable is folly.
It always was.
@robinblackbink.bsky.socialThe first drum was the beat of a human heart.
The second was the sound of fist on skull.
My Friends, we humans are all threads in a single tapestry.
@robinblackbink.bsky.socialYour opinion of this moment is wrong. #BINK
•••
Marcus Aurelius wrote that you always own the option of having no opinion.
Two tenths of a second.
Faster than a thought.
@robinblackbink.bsky.socialIf there is something you truly want,
commit with the totality of self.
You must. Not. Hesitate. #BINK
Hesitation is not caution.
It is a small death, chosen quietly, one breath at a time.
@robinblackbink.bsky.social@robinblackbink.bsky.socialYou have one resource. Only one.
Not time.
Not money.
ATTENTION.
Everything you will ever build, love, learn or fix has to pass through it first. #BINK