The concept is about lifelong training. By investing a lifetime into a skill, you'll become a master at it. Your knowledge will be so profound and complicated that you won't be able to pass it on as a hack. And once you're at the stage of mastery, you perform the skill unconsciously. As an example, samurais fight with swords and there is no time to think during a sword fight. The body and the mind must respond immediately, and this instant response is the result of "shugyō."

Shugyō: attaining mastery to perform a skill unconsciously. 

I think electricity has eternally spoiled us. Think of this little piece of your day which goes relatively unnoticed: you flick a switch, and you have light. In days past, our ancestors would have…

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Personal Development

A Samurai’s Anti-Life Hack For Developing Enduring Skill

The phrase is relevent in the context of personal growth. For any endeavor, you first need to start before you can decide which direction you want to take. As such, if you have a lot of ideas for business or personal projects, the most important thing is to get started. Once you've set off, you'll be able to steer your project from there.

"You can’t steer a stationary ship.”

This quote is all about the difference between busyness and productivity. Once you've started a personal growth project, you need to ask yourself whether you're just working hard or making tangible progress. In other words, you need to find out whether your efforts are yielding results or whether you are simply filling your hours.

“Am I spinning my wheels? Or am I actually moving forward?”

In my early 20s, my boss and mentor said something to me that ended up changing the way I lived my life. The first time he said it, I didn’t really get it. But then he would see me sitting in the…

A Samurai’s Anti-Life Hack For Developing Enduring Skill

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