We Know Nothing

How I do things changes all the time. How I teach, how I execute techniques, how I train, it all changes. Grappling changes, striking changes, fighting changes, technology changes and therefore you must change. I will never know everything about grappling and so I must continue learning, studying, and researching. The same is true of any endeavor. In truth whatever you think you know about something is surface level, there is no end to knowledge acquisition. At one point in history not that long ago people believed you could not run a sub 4-minute mile, now that’s a pace people keep for an entire marathon. Well, world record time is a 4.5-minute mile pace, but still in less than a century that’s how far we’ve come. Stagnation comes from complacency, which comes from overconfidence. We know nothing.