Blue M&Ms

by on July 6, 2009 in Zen

Doen Sensei discusses doing things with your life and shares a personal story about blue M&Ms. Sensei also talks about Est Training and taking responsibility for whatever is going on in your life.

In the second video Sensei talks about effort being more important than talent & intelligence.

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSwzVo5IGLw

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ixCLuwUcJs

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8 Responses to “Blue M&Ms”

  1. Katie Wreford July 7, 2009 at 9:16 am #

    This cut home so much for me today that I summarized it into a “post-it” size, personal reminder:

    Don’t worry about talent,
    because to assume it is necessary
    is to presume it will be easy.
    And it won’t be.

    Assume it will be tough,
    and just be willing.

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  2. cecil July 8, 2009 at 3:58 am #

    I have a standard do-it-yourself-handbook for amateur cycling training called “Radsport” by dutch trainer Henk Zorn. There is a chapter about talent and development and the first sentence is this: “First: It is completely and totally wrong (grundfalsch) to believe that you have talent or you have none”.
    He believes it is counterproductive and harmfull to even think about that

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  3. Peedee July 13, 2009 at 11:57 am #

    Just ate two blue M&Ms and realized it while was checking into the Lost Coin blog. :) Now, the smile.

    Great Vids! Merci.

    Peedee

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  4. ColdmountainT July 14, 2009 at 12:11 am #

    @cecil: I really dig that quote. If the general public would value practice as high as “talent” (whatever that might be) we might just maybe leave a bit more room to each other, be less pushy and aggressive, because it is really up to us and our efforts instead of some latent DNA in the genetic dormitory ;)

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  5. Daniel Doen Silberberg July 20, 2009 at 5:29 pm #

    @ColdmountainT
    Absolutely and we might even make some efforts. Thank you.

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  6. Daniel Doen Silberberg July 20, 2009 at 5:30 pm #

    @cecil
    Thank you Cecil, please continue to post comments. It is great to hear from you.

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  7. Daniel Doen Silberberg July 20, 2009 at 5:31 pm #

    @Peedee
    You are a very cool person. It is always so good to hear from you. I hope everything is going really well for you.

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  8. Natalya Rampton December 19, 2010 at 10:52 pm #

    Thumbs up for this article. You are my total icon.

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