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Japan's greatest swordsman fought sixty-one duels to the death and never lost one. At the end of his life, he wrote down one principle above all others: do nothing which is of no use. Ask that of your last twenty-four hours.
In this episode of Being a Man, Miyamoto Musashi becomes the antidote to the modern male condition: busy, informed, equipped, and scattered across so many things that we are excellent at none of them. Musashi did not win by being the strongest man in Japan. He won by removing everything from his life and his technique that did not serve the outcome. While other swordsmen collected techniques, he stripped his down.
The trap for capable men is that the things stealing your focus are not bad things. It is not vice pulling you apart. It is a hundred reasonable, useful-looking, entirely defensible commitments, each one justifiable, all of them together fatal to depth.
In this episode:
- The difference between being busy and being focused
- Why excellence is subtraction, not addition
- The specific trap of good opportunities destroying great work
- Why cutting takes more courage than adding
- One weekly practice: find the thing that does not serve you, and cut it
This is for the founder with six ambitions and nothing finished, and the man who reads about the life he wants instead of building it.
Being a Man is a weekly podcast on modern manhood, ancient wisdom, and purpose, hosted by Maurizio Rosini, founder of MyMasterMan, a global brotherhood and coaching movement for men who are done carrying it alone.
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