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Let the Thoughts Wrestle!
Holding two contradictory ideas at once in your mind is a bit like the beginning of a wrestling match.
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Shoney's Breakfast Buffet
For someone who ended up competing so much, I put off my first wrestling tournament for quite some time.
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Cutting Weight
One of the worst things about high school wrestling, for most of my teammates, was cutting weight.
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Kayfabe
On the one hand, it is vital for us to be able to tell the difference between what’s real and what isn’t. We need to know that if we fall off of a…
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Circles of Competence
When I started wrestling at the tail end of my freshman year of high school, I was a fish out of water.
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Diminishing Returns
Pizza Hut buffet was a pretty big deal during the 80s and early 90s.
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You Can't Do That
“You can’t do that!”
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Trophies and Trinkets
(stuff I've won in jiu jitsu over the decades)
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10,000 Hours
Ever hear of the 10,000 Hour Rule?
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