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Kareem is always modest, a lovely human. His article of LeBron taking over his scoring record is a great showcase of this: https://kareem.substack.com/p/what-i-think-about-lebron-brea...
He was sort of a dick when he was younger. Very standoffish with teammates, fans, and the media. Definitely mellowed out with age.
Also he missed that he is not in his prime. He is better than all of us at that age. But he suffered a lot of problem including 1 whole year no practice or training …
I've always held this conjecture that Jeet Kune do (JK do, so to speak) was actually a nod to JK, Jiddu Krishnamurthi, whose writings deeply influenced Bruce Lee while being bedridden in hospital for many months. He was the David Goggins of that generation. What an amazing human being.
JK's writings deeply influenced me - you have to spend a lot of time in your head to digest it though.
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> ...near-libelous portrayal of him Is it libelous or true? Are you assuming? You have to realize this is a person who was mythologized. A person who millions believe is the best fighter ever despite never having been put to the test. A great person who accomplished a lot, but reality never quite matches up with perception of the masses.
Near-libelous is fitting. I'm a Bruce fanatic since childhood and there are a lot of personal accounts of Bruce and they never painted him as the guy in Tarantino's movie. I love Tarantino but that was bad. Tarantino likes to play with his characters but in this case Bruce was a real person and a hero to a generation(s). That was unfair to do that to a real person for some comedy.
You've been fed a steady diet of martyr god.
Enter the Dragon was playing a theater near me recently, and for some reason never having seen a single Bruce Lee film, I figured I'd check it out. It was awesome and I ended up down a rabbit hole of reading about Bruce's life and accomplishments. There are some really great interviews with him on YouTube too. It's really irritating that the first thing many younger people will think about Bruce Lee is the near-libel…
I've always held this conjecture that Jeet Kune do (JK do, so to speak) was actually a nod to JK, Jiddu Krishnamurthi, whose writings deeply influenced Bruce Lee while being bedridden in hospital for many months. He was the David Goggins of that generation. What an amazing human being.
JK's "Total Freedom" is a book I've kept, in various formats, for over two decades. One of those rare works where you can dip in randomly and be confronted with the need to consider. Also loved "The Tao of Jeet Kune Do". Never knew about a connection between Bruce and Jiddu's philosophies. Thanks.
I've always held this conjecture that Jeet Kune do (JK do, so to speak) was actually a nod to JK, Jiddu Krishnamurthi, whose writings deeply influenced Bruce Lee while being bedridden in hospital for many months. He was the David Goggins of that generation. What an amazing human being.
How is he like Goggins? I can’t think of two human beings farther apart.
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Meh. I got bored and walked out to be honest. We all have our own tastes.
The phenomenon of walking out of a show I paid to watch, even if I'm not enjoying that much is so alien to me. The first thought I might have is "what am I missing", and throughout I'll be trying to either find something good in it or start joking about it in my head. Maybe it'll turn good, maybe it'll be so bad it's good. Maybe the way they tell the story is bad but I still want to know how the story ends. I feel li…
Much more about Bruce Lee and the California martial arts scene of those years can be learned by reading the brilliant short book (which I have gifted several times to friends and family), "Zen in the Martial Arts," written by journalist Joe Hyams, himself a student of Bruce Lee and a practitioner of a number of martial arts in the 1960s and 1970s.
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The phenomenon of walking out of a show I paid to watch, even if I'm not enjoying that much is so alien to me. The first thought I might have is "what am I missing", and throughout I'll be trying to either find something good in it or start joking about it in my head. Maybe it'll turn good, maybe it'll be so bad it's good. Maybe the way they tell the story is bad but I still want to know how the story ends. I feel li…
I watched it at home, so I didn't walk out technically, but I also turned off "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood". The only movies I've physically walked out of have been "The Departed" and "Tree of Life". I don't think it's a big deal to bail on something you're not enjoying, but have given a best effort to get into.