When a never heard of feat is accomplished
by some rare legend,
everyone gets lost in asking - "How?"
The manner in which they ask,
range from them being almost disinterested to being salivatingly eager.
But either does not get them to the Truth.
For they are not interested in Truth in the first place.
For "interest" is not enough to get one to the Truth.
Such a crowd is content only with the asking.
For the commotion that it creates or contributes to,
is ultimately what the crowd seeks.
No matter the limits of "impossible" conquered,
man rarely asks the question that can make way for Truth.
That question is - "What?".
And asking such a rare question calls for a rare human.
A human who is equally hungry for the Truth.
But unlike the crowd, he will not ask this out loud.
He will ask it inwardly.
He will ask it silently.
He will ask it to himself.
(Without knowing that he did so.)
...
"How does he lift that way?"
"How is his technique so pristine?"
"How does he move so fast?"
"How does he never miss?"
"How does he stay so upright?"
...
These questions are endless.
Those who ask them are as well.
Because no one around their vicinity knows enough
to drill this deep into them...
"Hows" will get you the low hanging fruit.
It is there for trivial things.
For instance,
buying the equipment or training attire,
finding a place to train,
feeding the body,
making weight for a competition,
competing,
etc.
If you continue to ask "how" for things
that are beyond such meniality,
you will barely make it to the point of being taken seriously -
by the barbell, the scoreboard, the judge, the audience,
and every other person in and around your life.
If you are too eager to ask how,
you give away your level of seriousness about the matter.
(That deep down you could not care less.)
Human performance is gravely misunderstood.
Even by the most-sought-after highly-paid coaches.
Show me one coach who knows
What brings out the legend from within a human
and I will show you a struggling athlete who went on to become a legend.
It does not happen, does it?
One who struggles, struggles for all his life.
Very, very, very rarely,
a lifelong struggler begins to question what he knows.
And it is then that he realizes...
What it takes to break out of the addiction which is "struggle".
Even rarer is when such an Awakened athlete
burns his struggling self down to ashes.
And emerges like a phoenix.
The full question that spawns inside a rare and sincere budding legend
on seeing the one-of-a-kind feat of a reigning one
is this...
What made him want to do it?
...
This question appears on its own.
And if not eclipsed by the agendas of his team, coach,
and the many other distractions that surround him today,
will guide him to such legendary feats as well.
Thank you.