PSYchology

Bruce Lee is known to most of us as a martial artist and film promoter. In addition, he kept records capable of presenting the wisdom of the East to a Western audience in a new way. We get acquainted with the rules of life of the famous actor.

Not everyone knows that the cult actor and director Bruce Lee was not only a standard of physical form, but also a graduate of the Philosophy Department of the University of Washington, a brilliant intellectual and a deep thinker.

He carried a small notebook with him everywhere, where he wrote down everything in neat handwriting: from the details of training and the phones of his students to poems, affirmations and philosophical reflections.

Aphorisms

Dozens of author’s aphorisms can be gleaned from this notebook, which has not been translated into Russian for many years. They bizarrely combined the principles of Zen Buddhism, modern psychology and magical thinking of the New Age era.

Here are some of them:

  • You will never get more out of life than you expect;
  • Focus on what you want and don’t think about what you don’t want;
  • Everything lives in motion and draws strength from it;
  • Be a calm spectator of everything that happens around;
  • There is a difference between a) the world; b) our reaction to it;
  • Make sure there is no one to fight; there is only an illusion through which one must learn to see;
  • Nobody can hurt you until you let it.

affirmations

It is no less interesting to read the affirmations that helped Bruce Lee in his daily work on himself, and try to apply them on your own experience:

  • “I know that I can achieve a clear main goal in life, so I require from myself a persistent, constant effort aimed at achieving it. Here and now, I promise to create that effort.”
  • “I am aware that the dominant thoughts in my mind will eventually materialize in external physical action and gradually transform into physical reality. So for 30 minutes a day, I will focus on imagining the person I intend to become. To do this, create a clear mental picture in your mind.
  • “Because of the principle of autosuggestion, I know that any desire that I deliberately hold on to will eventually find expression through some practical means of reaching the object. Therefore, I will dedicate 10 minutes a day to building self-confidence.”
  • “I have clearly written down what my clear main goal of life is, and I will not stop trying until I develop enough self-confidence to achieve it.”

But what was this “clear main goal”? On a separate piece of paper, Bruce Lee will write: “I will become the highest paid Asian star in the United States. In exchange, I will give the audience the most exciting performances and make the most of my acting skills. By 1970 I will achieve world fame. I will live the way I like and find inner harmony and happiness.”

At the time of these recordings, Bruce Lee was only 28. In the next five years, he will star in his major films and get rich fast. However, the actor won’t be on set for two weeks when the Hollywood producers decide to change the script for Enter the Dragon (1973) into another action movie instead of the deep-seated movie it was originally.

As a result, Bruce Lee will win another victory: the producers will agree to all the conditions of the star and make the film the way Bruce Lee sees it. Although it will be released after the tragic and mysterious death of the actor.

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