1. Effective training requires and develops the following qualities:
   1. To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself. It is easy to put on a show...but to express oneself honestly...that, my friend, is very hard to do. Bruce Lee (video link). Full Interview.
   2. Character
   3. Physical Intelligence (including self-defense skills)
   4. Ability to Deal with Fear - (truly enabled by love, though martial arts training helps) which produces unclouded:
      1. Personal Intelligence
      2. Emotional Intelligence
      3. Perception
      4. Logical Ability
      5. Discernment
      6. Freedom of Thought and Action
      7. Accurate Development of Strategy through Abstract Reasoning (recognizing patterns of action and behavior and figuring out how to proactively prepare for challenging situations)
         1. Increased Intellectual potential
      8. Confidence
      9. Resilience (2)
      10. Health Knowledge
      11. Philosophy (1,2)
      12. The heart of a true leader, since fear, emotional security and physical security (and health, to some degree) are not significant concerns.
          1. Conscientiousness
          2. Provider (since self needs are taken care of, can focus on teaching or helping others - a bigger, broader, more challenging goal/task than continued self-centered goals and tasks)
      13. Power
   5. Ability to Quickly and Accurately Identify Trends in Behavior
      1. In addition to the benefits listed above, martial arts is a study in dealing with harmful behavior. Combat strategy (dealing with people with a harmful intent) is part of the training. In learning physical protection methods and recognizing harmful intent waiting to happen, training becomes a study in ethical and non-ethical use of strategy and power and extremely advanced awareness training.
   6. Social Intelligence
      1. And therefore...highly relevant sales, marketing, business and life intelligence.
   7. Excellence in life through economy of thought, motion and action.
      1. Increasing mechanical ability and business process improvement ability.
      2. In tune with the spirit (2,3,4) rather than fear.
      3. Knowledge that
      4. Leadership qualities (2,3)
   8. Love is not fully defined in the the Bushido code (the warrior's way). This can lead to ineffectively directed uses of a warrior's spirit and ineffective actions (2). So...control of the spirit is taught, along with

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