{"id":235,"date":"2009-10-24T18:23:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T22:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/?p=235"},"modified":"2009-10-24T18:23:33","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T22:23:33","slug":"failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cFailure is the key to success; Each mistake teaches us something.\u201d<\/em> O-Sensei<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-239\" title=\"DSC_0389\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/DSC_03892-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0389\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is my favorite quote from O-Sensei for a variety of reasons.\u00a0 One of the main reasons is that it embodies my personal philosophy.\u00a0 This is not just limited to Aikido, but to life in general.\u00a0 In life, as with Aikido, failure is inevitable.\u00a0 Look back on your own life.\u00a0 How long did it take you to learn to walk, to speak, or to learn your profession?\u00a0\u00a0 Can anyone honestly say that they accomplished these tasks the first time?\u00a0 I thought not.\u00a0 The reality is that failure is unavoidable, and is sure to be your truest companion through life.<\/p>\n<p>Most people are disappointed by failure because they expect perfection.\u00a0 This is faulty reasoning when going to an Aikido class, though.\u00a0 Perfection is a sign of mastery, and if one can truly master a thing (be it Aikido or anything else) there is nothing left to learn.\u00a0 The impressive thing about Aikido is that it does not have a glass ceiling.\u00a0 There is no upper limit.\u00a0 Even O-Sensei trained when he was recognized as the master of his art.\u00a0 Even he, at his highest level of skill, saw fit to improve upon what he had built, presumably because he was not satisfied on some level.\u00a0 We should expect failure, because perfection is impossible.<\/p>\n<p>Since we cannot avoid failure, we should embrace it fully, in Aikido and in life.\u00a0 Personally, I find it to be the best teacher: No organization can compare to the school of hard knocks.\u00a0\u00a0For me, the hard things are best remembered, while that which is easily earned is just as easily forgotten.\u00a0 Life is hard, Aikido is hard, so you should expect to fail.\u00a0 It makes life more interesting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFailure is the key to success; Each mistake teaches us something.\u201d O-Sensei This is my favorite quote from O-Sensei for a variety of reasons.\u00a0 One of the main reasons is that it embodies my personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philosophy","category-ryan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}