Kyoshi was speaking to the kid's class at karate yesterday, and he said that if you're taking short cuts now, what will you do later.

The answer is that I know exactly where that road leads because I followed it. High school was easy. College was easy.

The world was hard.

When I got out of college into the real world, my shortcuts and coasting devistated my opportunities, and it would be a decade later that I finally developed the kind of worth ethic needed to achieve success.

If I had gone to a school like Mystic Dojo - Yamashita International Karate when I was a kid, I would have enjoyed much better outcomes.

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