Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.
Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only.
The strength people need to proceed along the path of human development can come only from the spiritual worlds.
Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. It's a balance.
The willingness to learn new skills is very high.
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more naturally gifted than me - either with their mental machines or their bodies. But I have believed in my training, my approach to learning, and my ability to rise to the challenge under pressure.
It's an intangible thing, this thing we call talent, especially if we're in a position to teach and mentor others.
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