Complacency

​You are never as good as you think you are. That’s the starting point of improvement. If you believe that you can rest on your laurels, eventually someone will catch you. If you train once a week and someone else trains 3 days a week, that person will improve faster. That’s not bad or good, it’s just something you have to accept. The people who push more, train more, train smarter, and put work in outside the gym are out there. If you have a life outside of grappling, they will frustrate you. It will be really hard to keep training if you don’t accept that people will surpass you. Life gets in the way, injuries happen, you don’t have the same natural gifts, or you just can’t put the time in. Don’t believe that your skills will maintain at the same level forever. That’s impossible. The only way to maintain or get better is to keep putting the work in.