Bruce Lee: All Knowledge is Ultimately Self Knowledge
When it comes to the life of Bruce Lee most people realize he was a famous martial artist as well as a famous movie star who died long before his time.
But, there was much more to the man than most people realize. And, no, this does not mean they were any strange conspiracies surrounding his passing. (Such nonsense was promoted through B grade films such as BRUCE LEE: HIS LAST DAYS, HIS LAST NIGHTS or BRUCE LEE: WE MISS YOU)
Really, the most amazing thing about Bruce Lee was his philosophical approach to life. What many people did not know was the fact that Lee held a BA Degree in Philosophy and was a very well read man and a deep thinker.
Lee wrote many philosophical musings that were published posthumously in a series of edited collections of his thoughts.
Now, Lee’s body of work was quite diverse and covered a host of topics but one of the most interesting concepts he addressed was the notion that “All knowledge is ultimately self knowledge.”
That is to say, Lee believed that an individual was forever learning and improving with everything one did.
For Lee, he used martial arts as an example but you could substitute and active or intellectual pursuit into this notion. That is, because no matter what we do we learn a little bit more about ourselves through our actions.
This could be a realization of our likes or dislikes, our positive attributes vs. our negative ones, etc.
From this we understand those aspects of our life that are our positive attributes and what areas of our life could use a little improvement. Of course, this can all be a conduit to self improvement and that is obviously a good thing.
Often, when we look for means of self improvement from “magical” sources and there is nothing magical to self improvement.
Self improvement is often found in everyday life and this is what Bruce Lee was stressing.
While it may seem somewhat odd to assume that a minor hobby can create a conduit to self improvement the fact remains that there is nothing odd to this notion!
Yes, often, the miraculous exists in the ordinary and when it comes to self improvement there really is it is often the ordinary actions we take that provide us much insight to self improvement.
This simple concept was a brilliant observation by Lee that remains as relevant today as it did when Lee first pondered it 4 decades ago.
John Chow Vs Srini Saripalli?
WOW this is getting some serious attention. The world seems to be divided over the review that John Chow wrote about my blog??¦
The review can be found here—>Srini Saripalli A Success Engineer?
That??™s a Million dollar review right there. More on it in a minute??¦
About 10 days ago I approached John Chow to write a review on my blog. I knew my blog was not ready for a John Chow effect as I was still working on most of the components…
Hence I did highlight this in my first email to John:
“I was interested in getting a review of my blog done by you. Tell me how to proceed about it. Not sure if my blog is ready for a review yet, but let me know what qualifications you look for to write a review?”
John was prompt with his response, he told me the review will cost me about $500 and my blog perfectly blends with his readership and promised me it will be ready in about 5 days.
After Reading His Review Many Believe I Hurried Myself In Approaching John
I was personally tired of to a point with comments such as “Srini You are good” , “Srini your blog is great’ that I wanted someone to really get to the bottom of what I was doing and provide me with some core insights.
Why John Chow?
All my research to find the top bloggers in the world led me to John??™s website. The guy calls a spade a spade and is always to the point. Makes a ton of money blogging( I will overtake him soon..:)-) and according to me/many he is the one of the best bloggers in the world.
If you have read the review, you might have noticed, he finished the entire review in the heading itself. A class act!
John has a great following from the top bloggers around the world. I wanted these bloggers to comment on my work as well.
Net Net, I wanted a sincere review and the best in the world to comment on my work ??¦which I achieved with this review.
Now More On The Review:
I whole heartedly agree with what John has to say. He makes the point -that I have a long way to go- in the headline and substantiates it with ample evidence in the body.
The quality of the contnet:
John finds me to be honest and sincere but do not find my content to be of value. Well I will leave this one to you to decide??¦.
..Nothing to brag but .I know my strategies on content creation are unparalleled, again this is based on numerous people who have attended my live seminars and workshops.
Unnecessary use of ??????? marks and deficiencies in my grammar
I come from the direct response marketing world where spellings, grammar, punctuation marks seldom matter. I write about things that make me money and tell people what to do to make money.
Incidentally I have made a ton of money using “?” marks and “#” sings in my sales copy. If you are a copy writer or use copy as your asset you can relate to this.
Lack of Professionalism:
He points out that my About Page is incomplete. A few links on the top give 404 error.
Well it depends how you look at them(Glass is half empty, Glass is half Full). According to me and many others It shows lack of completeness. Lack of professionalism and incompleteness are two different things.
( My design team is building the page as I write)
How this review has helped me so far:
Well it has certainly increased my viewership. John sent me about 1000 visitors to my site in first 36 hours.
4 people opted into my autoresponder.
Expecting a surge in traffic, I thought of putting a lightbox on the blog but restrained myself thinking it will be annoying to John??™s readers.
More than the traffic John pointed some serious flaws in my writing, which are worth to me in gold. I am getting ready to publish my book and this review will help me considerably.
For all those who think $500 was a waste: I urge you to try the cost of Ignorance!
For all those who think John effectively killed me as a blogger:. He just explained the rules of the game to a serious contender.
Together we two will make the blogging world better.
Where I am going from here on:
Strong and on track to making $50K a Month from this blog!.
Sincerely, Humbly and Profitably Yours!
Srini Saripalli
