Empty Your Cup

A master martial artist asked Bruce Lee to teach him everything Bruce knew about martial arts.

Bruce held up two cups, both filled with liquid. “The first cup”, he said, “represents all of your knowledge about martial arts. The second cup represents all of my knowledge about martial arts. If you want to fill your cup with my knowledge, you must first empty your cup of your knowledge.”

Steve Pavlina uses this story in his blog to tell us that if we want to discover our true purpose in life, we must first empty our mind of all the false purposes we’ve been taught.

I think this story is about everything we decide to do and be: the discovery of a life purpose or any kind of mastery.

If we want to be the leader, boss, partner etc we can be, if we want to create something new, or simply reach the goal that we have set, we must let go of any false beliefs, misconceptions, assumptions, judgments and ideas that are not serving us.

“You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk.” (Louise Smith)