losers fixate on winners

“I simply enter the way I enter, and that is enough, they either overextend or they shrink away, but either way it is not good for them. I will create traps and dead-space inside that octagon and I will walk him into that dead space” — Conor McGregor

at poise
there’s nothing to lose
there’s nothing to prove

instead of reciprocating or compensating you leverage the forces levied against you

when you are at poise the other feels compelled to prove (you wrong) and so they revert to provoking a reaction from you either in an active or a passive form of aggression

but you are bulletproof
if they overextend you pull them down,
if they recoil you push them down

Conor McGregor

Conor McGregor has become the champion in 13 seconds

“No power, just precision.
No speed, just timing.
That’s all it takes.”

yes,
it’s poise over matter

here’s two of my favourite quotes by him:

(1)

do you ever regret anything you say?

“I just let it flow and whatever it is I say if I regret it I regret it
it is what it is
I certainly wouldn’t regret something like speaking the truth
the truth is the truth
can’t regret speaking the truth
you can’t apologize for that”

which reminds me of trash-talk
that champions like McGregor or Michael Jordan used to deploy or rather ‘let flow’

the tip of an ice-berg: real trash-talk is a side-effect of mental dominance,
which comes from a solid foundation of skills and ownership of one’s strength

people with poise take the game to a new level where it becomes a clash of minds and the only thing there is to lose is the truth of the moment

/incidentally, McGregor was masterful in the way he used social media to whip up the hype (what, in effect, attracted me and many others to UFC)

(2)

“when you tell someone the truth they react to it”

in my translation this says: when your transparency confronts someone with the truth they either surrender or resist

yes,
once you step beyond self-deception that’s when you step into your power which will polarize people

but the real punch comes once you understand that the someone your transparency confronts is none other than you

gestalt

if there is no background
a basis, something in the making
against which all of it
figures
no wonder you wake up disenchanted & uninspired every day

(while as a child it was a given
now as an adult you are to give it)

channeling

this seems like an interesting energy hack
tapping into the powers of the body by opening it up:

CT musters more muscle-strength by opening up
while others constrict themselves
he flares his eyes wide
and laughs that wicked belly-laugh right before the push

in my mind, the same thing goes on
when I breathe deep into my belly
and inaudibly hum a little
warming and opening up my (vocal) self
right as I get socially engaged
(while seeking eye-contact with pedestrians, for ex, when I step out into the street)