Sublime

A warrior must be respectful and disciplined in their interactions with all living beings, and committed to protecting the sacredness of every life. This respect, discipline, and commitment must be instilled in them from a young age.

Back down to no one, avenge every insult, never show fear, never display weakness. Play hurt, never quit.

He was just a man doing a job. A job whose primary attribute was self-restraint and self-composure, not for his own sake, but for those whom he led by his example. A job whose objective could be boiled down to the single understatement, as he did at the Hot Gates on the morning he died, of “performing the commonplace under uncommonplace

What I call Professionalism someone else might call the Artist’s Code or the Warrior’s Way. It’s an attitude of egolessness and service. The Knights of the Round Table were chaste and self-effacing. Yet they dueled dragons.

Even the peerless sword master Miyamoto Musashi entered the fighting square to learn as much as to teach.