The Thousand-Mile Stare
Dear Friend,
Back in 1992, well before I went to China
and married, I was seeing a lady from central
California, who understood mental focus about
as well as I understand Aramaic (which is to say,
not at all).
Anyway, while I was busy finishing up a report,
she walked around my office, looking at different
photos. I paid no heed, but later that day, over
dinner, she remarked, "That photo of you taken
when you won the nationals was strange. You had
this totally emotionless look on your face. I don't
understand how you could have a look like that
after winning a tournament that important. Don't
you feel any emotion?"
Years later, in 1997, after winning the world title in
Beijing in Shuai-chiao Kung Fu, I was given a stack
of photos taken of me throughout the event. Some
were taken in the hotel, before the tournament began.
Some were taken in action, others between rounds - and
then there were those taken after I won the title. Last of all,
there were the photos taken of me hours after the tournament.
In each and every case, the look on my face was the
same as when I won a national collegiate wrestling
title in 1985 - albeit even more "emotionless" - if you can
imagine that.
This look is something I now refer to as "The Thousand-Mile
Stare."
What does that mean?
It means that the degree of mental focus I put myself under
was so great that I was literally in a sort of hypnotic trance.
And this "trance" was so strong that it held strong, even after
the event was over.
Wrestling writer and historian, Mike Chapman, in referring to the
legendary Dan Gable, who won Olympic gold in 1972, once told
me the following as we looked at photos of Gable on the victory
stand in Munich:
"Matt, do you see that look on Gable's face? Do you see the focus?
Well, let me tell you a little story. A week later, when he was back in
Ames, Iowa, for a celebration following his victory, he still had the exact
same look. It hadn't changed a bit. That's how intense his mental focus
was."
I cannot say that my focus was as strong as Gable's. A week later I
was back to normal, laughing and joking around. But - if you were to
put the photos of Gable and me together and study the expressions we
had during tournament time, you would find the look to be the same.
That "look" is the expressionless look of a fully concentrated mind.
Yet, it would be a mistake to assume that this look is void of "emotion."
Not at all. It is the look of totally channeled, focused and internalized
emotion. It is the look of removing all "external" appearances of emotion
while ALL emotion is specifically directed at a single objective.
Now, just think what you could do if you were able to put the "thousand-mile
stare" on whenever you wanted? If you're interested in learning how, then
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Well, my friend, that's it for now.
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