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 Subscribe  Disciple: “Can you tell me more about the recipe?” Master: “If one looks at anything one has done regardless of the complexity, one can see the ingredients of this recipe in what was done. The recipe does not guarantee the results, but being aware of the recipe is important because it makes one aware of what is needed to do the best one can, potentially minimizing the risk of failure. This recipe is comprised of the following ingredients: determination, self-discipline, passion, patience, perseverance, hard work, and in some cases, skill. How good the end result is depends on the quantity and/or quality of each of these ingredients. This recipe applies to absolutely everything one does in life, whether it is sports, arts, business, or even life.” Disciple: “Can you elaborate, Sir?” Master: “For that, we need to look at each of the ingredients.  ‘Determination’ is the feeling or force that pushes one to persevere towards a difficult goal in spite ...

 Subscribe  Disciple: “Master, what does one need to achieve success…to be successful?” Master: “Can you grab with your hands the early morning mist?” Disciple: “No, master. It is not possible. I can feel it but I cannot grab it.” Master: “Success, and its opposite, failure, like the mist, can be experienced but cannot be attained.” Disciple: “I am completely lost, Master.” Master: “They are just judgements. They do not really exist. People, in their need to grade and judge, feel the need to apply a judgement to everything they do. It helps them to make sense of things. Success is applied when the results are as expected, positive, or beneficial to the individual(s) affected. Otherwise, failure is applied. Neither one exists. What someone calls success, someone else may call failure; and what someone calls failure, someone else may call success. Because of their subjective and completely impermanent nature, they cannot last. They are basically temporary, short-...