The Mental Arts Papers

The Mental Arts Papers

beyond the belt

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The Mental Arts Tidbit (Mar. 5)

The journey to purple belt

Mar 5, 2021

Normalizing Failure

Listen now (6 mins) | Evelyn has been my friend and training partner since Amherst College. She has actually done jiu jitsu longer than me — I started…

Feb 26, 2021

Peaks and Valleys: Tidbit, Feb. 19th

Listen now (3 mins) | (For my new—and old subscribers—on Friday, the tidbit will be an audio excerpt from an interview!) Excerpt of my interview with…

Feb 19, 2021

"I was just happy to be there"

Recently, in this audio excerpt, I had the chance to sit down with one of my friends, Jaime Montemayor, to talk about his recent promotion to purple…

Sep 28, 2020

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