Don't Care

Sifu often talks about success.

"Don't care success, if you care success you will go back to the big idea."

What he is talking about is simple and very similar to everything else. He is saying that you cant care if you fail or succeed. If you don't care you are more likely to succeed. Caring is a very 'big idea' led thing.

The whole point of the training is to train the 'little idea' and make it stronger and make yourself better at maintaining the state. That way fighting becomes easy. It doesn't matter what force is being applied to you, you simply ignore it.
If you care, you will go back to the big idea. "Am I doing this right? Is my hand in the right place? Maybe I should move it? OH NO, I've lost it! OK, I need to relax more. No that's still not working." And so on. It becomes a big circle.

It is natural to want to succeed, that's why I often run circles in my head. Why am I here, if not to succeed? Why have I paid money, if not to succeed?

That's not the point, I am there to have fun and if I am relaxed and don't want to succeed I definitely do better.

Obviously it is so hard to switch that off! Especially when Sifu comes up to you and gets you to practice a tan sau or fook sau etc.