Source:
http://www.menshealth.com/celebrity-fitness/georges-st-pierre
"There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist," St-Pierre says. "A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight. I'm a martial artist. I don't train for a fight. I train for myself. I'm training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection."
"He is never a master, complete in his studies. Rather, he is a trainer, a learner, as humble as a white belt. And he reminds himself of this by surrounding himself with smart people—all experts at something he wants to master—who can teach and challenge him."
""The danger is not to set your goal too high and fail to reach it," St-Pierre says, now channeling Michelangelo."It's to set your goal too low and reach it."
"He can cite the 10,000-hour rule popularized by Malcolm Gladwell: You achieve success after that much practice. He might even turn profound and paraphrase Bruce Lee: We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent."
"Desire creates talent. Let that concept linger. How many of us are brave enough to pursue a passion at any cost, as St-Pierre has? If the UFC didn't exist and there weren't a cent to be made in the sport, he says, he'd still be training twice a day for 90 minutes at a clip. He'd still be learning to punch on unstable surfaces in order to activate hidden muscles and increase his power. He'd be studying gymnastics and walking over obstacles on his hands. It's about mastering himself. "I don't do this for the fame," he says. "I do this for the love."
"At the arena, his focus is total. He tapes a simple handwritten sign, in French, to his dressing room wall. Translation: On December 11th in Montreal, I will destroy Josh Koscheck and remain world champion. An attainable goal. He makes a sign for each fight. "Every time I wake up in the morning, I put that up so I see it when I brush my teeth," he says."
"St-Pierre begins his warmup: trunk twists, crab steps, hamstring kicks, triangle submission drills, arm bar drills, guillotine chokes, superman punches, combination strikes on pads, breathing exercises with arms upraised against the wall, hands opening and closing methodically. Every movement is precise, efficient. His trainers go over his game plan. He is ready."
"And what is GSP doing moments later in his dressing room after defending his title in front of a hometown crowd? He's on a mat, rolling with a coach, training, taking pointers about what he did wrong, about how he could have used a move called the "head snapdown" when he had Koscheck on the ground at one point. He does this after every fight, always training, always learning. Desire creates talent."
"It's like life," St-Pierre says. "The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible."
My Translation: You can never master trading. You can only get better. It is always a process, a daily routine that requires constant and focused hard work. Surround yourself with people who are working harder than you are, and who can teach and challenge your thinking. Be humble at all times and accept criticisms that will push you forward. Trading should never be about making money alone, since I had once lost most of my capital. It is the life style of trading, and most importantly it's the unwavering desire to pursue mastery that keeps me going. It's an inner fire that burns even stronger when failure strikes. I only work harder when failure strikes. I don't just love winning, I love to see the fruit of my plans working out. A trade can always be improved on, therefore I post reflections on both losing and winning trades. You don't just go and have a vacation on a couple of winning trades. Be like a white belt at all times and seek improvement at all times.
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