To live an uncommon life one needs to learn uncommon discipline. Hi this is Mark Devine.

This is Mark Devine.

Welcome back at the Unveable Mind Podcast.

Thanks so much for being here today.

Appreciate your time. Today I have another solo cast and I'm reading

chapters from the newly edited updated book Unbeatable Mind, which I'm colloquy of calling the Pandemic Edition, even though it won't be called that.

But I had a little time on my hands.

So I started another edit of that book, which has been a pet product of mine and it's turned out to be quite

different and I think you'll enjoy it so I'm on chapter one titled win in your

mind here we go.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war,

while defeated warriors go to war first, and then seek to win.

Sun suit.

A month before I tested for my green belt ranking

under Nakamore's watchful eye,

I decided to take it to the next level by joining some senior students for deep

training at the Zen Mountain Monastery in Woodstock, New York. The schedule would

have me practicing the physical skills of karate alongside the mental skills of Zen. An hour of meditation at 5 a.m. was

followed by two hours of karate training, which was repeated several times a day throughout

the four-day retreat.

At the first morning meditation session,

I took my seat on the little bench,

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