10/08/2018
Yossi Sheriff

If the body runs faster then the soul, (from above) they stop it.

19/07/2018
Yossi Sheriff

Big powers become interested in human rights violations only when there is some economic interest behind it.

30/03/2018
Yossi Sheriff

I suddenly heard a noise and looked up to find Robert Hughes, the art critic of Time magazine, staring at me in disbelief. ‘But you’re Philip Glass! What are you doing here?’ It was obvious that I was installing his dishwasher and I told him that I would soon be finished. ‘But you are an artist,’ he protested. I explained that I was an artist but that I was sometimes a plumber as well and that he should go away and let me finish.

From The Guardian

Image CC by Letter Chen

07/12/2017
Yossi Sheriff

Food, tasty and good, is the basis for health and good feeling, it takes time, good advice and luck until we eat right.

Books are nourishment too.

Short paragraphs, on a digital platform or in the newspaper, are like sprinting to catch the bus, necessary, but not the same as running for an hour in the mountains. Learning to read right is a bit like learning to run long distances, we need a reading fitness plan, we can read longer and longer sections, make it a habit.

What does this have to do with martial arts? Our teachers exemplified, 文武一道 bun bu ichido, the brush stroke and the cut, the pen and the sword, learning and fighting, are one thing. In ancient Aramaic too: Safra ve Saifa (סָפְרָא וסַיָּיפָא)- a scholar and a sword man. And they say that Rabbi Eliezer said: “The Sword And The Book Came Down Bound Together”.

01/12/2017
Yossi Sheriff

“Draw the target and hit its center,” says the master of the house. In meters yes, but not in years.

The arrow has to fly, fly, not just hit a target, and the view it sees when flying for a long time is not the landscape it sees in one moment.

The target is not there, it’s beautiful. We did not know we thought about it.
The landlord says in his sleep: “I am the dream owner. Do not worry, it’s a way that has been walked before” and “the target is in the Centre. Pull as much as you can, steady, leave, watch the arrow fly. Then Draw the target around the point of impact. “

24/11/2017
Yossi Sheriff

The Pac-Man Rule: When standing as a group of people, always leave room for 1 person to join your group.
Leaving room for new people when standing in a group is a physical way to show an inclusive and welcoming environment. It reduces the feeling of there being cliques, and allows people to integrate themselves into the community.

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to try and build the largest Pac-Man in the room. Invite new people into your groups, make new friends, and build a community full of people who feel included. We all benefit.
From: The Pac-Man Rule at Conferences

10/11/2017
Yossi Sheriff

I was not nervous, but mainly task oriented. When I drove to the emergency room (I drove for about fifteen minutes from the road and then hitchhiked), I sang a song from Mashina. I was not afraid of the consequences of the sting, because I assume that people always exaggerate the lethal potential of external harms that are not under our control (such as terror attacks, snake bites, etc.), and underestimate the lethal potential of external harms that are actually under our control.

Image Bernard DUPONT CC BY-SA 2.0

13/10/2017
Yossi Sheriff

The less equipment you can get by with, the better you are. I Never trust anything with a battery. I was never let down by an axe or snowshoes.

29/09/2017
Yossi Sheriff

If We’re Lucky, Robots Might Decide To Keep Us as Pets.

1970 November 20, “LIFE”

15/09/2017
Yossi Sheriff

Interestingly, the study suggests that the battle was lost by the greater army, because of its excessive zeal for combat leading to sections of it pushing through the ranks of the weaker army only to be surrounded and isolated.
From: Mathematical modelling of a mediaeval battle: the Battle of Agincourt, 1415