Embracing Bruce Lee's 'Be Like Water' Philosophy
Embracing Bruce Lee's 'Be Like Water' Philosophy
Will my new Craftsman tool chest be the answer?
Bruce Lee said, “Be like water, my friend,” meaning ultimately to remain flexible and adaptive to a changing situation—certainly words to live by.
In finally buying a new (and third) Craftsman tool chest to accommodate my growing collection of folders and fixed blades, it occurred to me that this “being like water,” is actually a double-edged sword.
Water is formless and adapts to the shape of the vessel it is in.
For a person, being like water means not being trapped in a rigid mindset.
For a collection, it means filling the vessel, nook and cranny, until it can hold no more and another vessel is required, like water would.
With this new knife chest, I aim to give the knives in my collection breathing room so that each one can be taken off it’s spine and viewed in full.
What I must avoid now is filling the new vessel with new knives because the space is there.
No sir, I will be disciplined. Just seeing all my knives in full as I rearrange has unearthed a few that I intend to carry more, as well as a few I can move along to some other lucky knife junkie.
I will try to live up to Bruce Lee’s philosophy and be like water in my thinking, approach to training, and creativity.
But when it comes to my knife collection, I think I will try to be more like molasses; it will still fill up every nook and cranny, but it will take longer and might leave a few air pockets.
Wish me luck with this new knife storage space; I’m sure it won’t fill up immediately!
Knife Junkie out!
Michael Janich: The Knife Junkie Podcast (Episode 481)
Michael Janich, Close Combatives Instructor/Expert and Special Projects Coordinator for Spyderco, joins Bob on Episode 481 of The Knife Junkie Podcast.
Janich has been studying and teaching self-defense and the martial arts for more than 40 years. He is one of the foremost modern authorities on handgun point shooting and is one of the few contemporary instructors to have been personally trained by the late close-combat legend Col. Rex Applegate.
He personally established Paladin Press’ Video Production Department in 1994 and ran all aspects of Paladin’s video production for 10 years, producing more than 100 instructional videos. Janich was also personally selected to work with Col. Applegate as the producer of his landmark instructional videos on handgun point shooting.
Janich is also a prolific knife designer who has designed production knives for Spyderco, Masters of Defense, BlackHawk Blades, Combat Elite, and Max Knives, and custom knives for several world-renowned makers.
Currently, Janich serves as the Special Projects Coordinator for the Spyderco knife company in Golden, Colorado, and, through his company, Martial Blade Concepts LLC, continues to offer state-of-the-art personal-defense training worldwide.
Find Michael Janich and Martial Blade Concepts online at www.martialbladeconcepts.com and on Instagram at www.instagram.com/martialbladeconcepts.
Find Spyderco online at www.spyderco.com.
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