Sports psychology and martial arts have taught me more about myself than most books I've read. The greatest beauty of the above are how transferable they are across context, the flow of boxing is essentually a form of meditation, or in neuro-semantic terms "Genius State". The single largest component I've noticed has now been brought to light in Peter Senge's "The 5th Discipline"...Personal Mastery.

Although I've subscribed to the term self-efficacy in the past, there is something almost romantic about personal mastery. A discipline of a life focused on learning and growth, with the acceptance that we will never meet our full potential, because as we grow so does our potential. The term mastery itself conjures up images of aged monks practicing the arts of meditation in my mind.

Practitioners, according to Senge display some of the following attribute:

* They have defined and concretised vision
* The see their current reality as an ally to reach that vision
* They are committed to seeing reality accurately and truthfully
* They are extremely curios and inquisitive
* The work with the forces of change, as opposed to resisting them
* They feel the connection with others and life itself