Likes Pedro.

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…100%. I’ve seen it with all of my kids and myself, how much they’ve benefited from it. But that self-defense component and the philosophical elements of… Pedro will often tell them about wuwei and sort of soft resistance and some of these sort of more eastern philosophies that they get exposed to through their practice there that are sort of non-resistance, that are beautiful and hard concepts to internalize as an adult, but especially when you’re 12, 10, and 8 respectively. So it’s been an amazing experience for us all. I love people like Pedro because he’s finding books that are in Japanese and translating them to try to figure out the details of a particular history. He’s an ultra scholar of martial arts, and I love that. I love when people give everything, every part of themselves to the thing they’re practicing. People have been fighting each other for a very long time. From the Colosseum on. You can’t fake anything. You can’t lie about anything. It’s truly honest. You’re there and you either win or lose. And it’s simple. And it’s also humbling, that the reality of that is humbling. And oftentimes in life, things are not that simple, not that black and white.…

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