Most people, if they are honest, spend a good part of their lives trying to make things easier. Easier job. Easier relationships. Easier mornings. There is nothing wrong with that instinct. Difficulty hurts, and we are wired to move away from pain. But Bruce Lee spent much of his short life testing a completely different idea. He believed that wishing for comfort was the very thing that kept a person small. And somewhere between the training halls of Oakland and a Los Angeles bedroom where he was once forced to stop moving entirely, he wrote down words that still pull people up short. They are not complicated. But they are not easy either.
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