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The Master Samurai

A parable: a student asks a master how long mastery takes, gets told 10 years, then asks how long if he works twice as hard, day and night. The master says 20 years, because fixing one eye on the destination leaves only one eye to find the way.

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  1. 0:00
    Abschnitt 1 There's this revered master who everybody wants to study under and it's it's almost impossible to get to him.
  2. 0:26
    Abschnitt 2 [music] The young samurai is like, "Wait, what?

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0:00There's this revered master who everybody wants to study under and it's it's almost impossible to get to him. And so he's interviewing candidates. And the aspiring samurai comes to him and says, [music] "How long will it take me to be a master?" And he says, "10 years." And so then the young samurai eager to kind of prove himself. He's like, "Well, what if I work twice as hard and I work day and [music] night uh to to become a master? How long will it take then?" And so the master sits back and looks at him and says, "20 years."

0:26[music] The young samurai is like, "Wait, what? How can I How can I take twice as long if I if I'm working [music] harder? The master replies, "If you have one eye fixed on your destination, then you only [music] have one eye left to find your …