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Back to basics!
This is a beginning technique. Anthony is currently working on higher level material than this but he knows the value of going back to basics.
Always bringing the basics up with you is the path to success in Shou' Shu'. As well as in anything else you are trying to achieve.
We can think of the brain as having latent programs. Some of them running continuously in the background and others only triggered when needed. All of them, at a very base level, have to do with survival, or at the minimum, survival of the species.
The more immediate the survival needs are the more immediately the program takes over and the more difficult to override. And the more it overrides other programs.
When teaching I often get frustrated students when they lack boldness in their heuristics. When they make feeble attempts at corrections rather than going all in.
In most cases, their language will reflect their actions. Such as:
Me: "Push off the ground when you kick"
Student: "Oh you mean I should push off the ground more?"
Most arguments of what should be, exist at the macro level. It's easier for the simpler, and often wrong, argument to exist there. It's easier to stay in the self-righteous there. Yet the real problem, which is apparent, is often exposed at the micro-level.
Some time ago I did this little experiment. The idea was to put a "BIG" Shou' Shu' video out into the wild and then make sure it was seen by those who had never seen Shou' Shu' before. Then to try to decipher what they were seeing based upon the comments.
When I say big I mean a technique that has large motions so it is easy to see. This technique is big but admittedly there are some subtleties, that just made it fun. I was able to reveal (in the comments) what was in plain sight before.
Ever had a conversation on a cell phone and wonder if the person on the other end is still there?
You can't decide if the call has been interrupted or they are formulating their thoughts so you wait and wonder.
In explaining what Shou' Shu' is I typically use the three rules.
It is a fighting art that:
My wife is a huge fan of Darren Hardy. And for good reason. He's awesome!
Yesterday she sent me this video and asked that I share it with our students.
https://dd.darrenhardy.com/a-team-attributes-7
It's a great video and I'd suggest you watch it but the basic message is that to succeed you must look at everything in your life as your doing.
Over the last few weeks, I have had the opportunity of observing groups of people at their craft/work (Not Kraftwerks, remember them?) And I learned a lot that I already knew :-)
Two disparate groups which acted very much in the same way. They acted with focussed hustle.
The first group was a group of young actors. I've been doing some fight scene choreography for a small film. The second group is a tree trimming company that is presently in my backyard getting an amazing amount of work done in short order.
Let's take the second group first:
Social media is abuzz with vitriol about rape and sexual harrassment. Statistics are thrown around that clearly imply that all men are bad. And those statistics are, without a doubt, leading the narrative.
Leading the narrative with memes is a simple thing to do. The majority of the population will not dive deeper and try to understand. Our brains do not naturally do so. Our brains want ideas nicely packaged up like a big mac and fries. Grab it and go ideas.