FLAMING WATERDROPS

   Have you ever noticed that a single moment can completely change your state?  A sudden loud noise makes us jump. A beautiful sunset fills us with calm. A song brings back memories from years ago. Someone shouts at us, and our heart immediately starts racing. As in the movie:  “Get up, you son ... ! ’Cause Mickey loves you!”  Something has just  activated  us.    In psychology, this is a perfectly natural phenomenon. An external or internal stimulus can activate our body, mind, or emotions. This activation can lead to new thoughts, feelings, behaviour, and physical or physiological responses. Percomboo extends this concept in an important direction.    Originally,  anything can be an activator . An  activator  is anything that initiates activity within us. It can be a sound, smell, person, conversation, memory, place, piece of music, landscape, physical pain, success, failure, or even a single  thought . Anythi...

Nine years have passed since I wrote  the Bruce Lee Paradox,  in which I promised to return to this subject someday. Well, that time has come. Today, out of sheer curiosity, I asked an artificial intelligence the following question. It gave me such a brilliant answer that I feel I have nothing to add. My question: "Has anyone written about Bruce Lee's paradoxical influence on people? I mean that he became the most famous martial artist of all time, inspiring millions to take up martial arts, while at the same time founding Jeet Kune Do and arguing against rigid styles, encouraging people not to become attached to any single system." Answer: Yes. In fact, what you describe is one of the greatest ironies in the history of martial arts. Historians, Bruce Lee scholars, and Jeet Kune Do practitioners have been discussing it for decades, even if not always in exactly these words. The paradox can be summarized like this: Bruce Lee became the greatest ambassador of martial arts w...

Every Situation Offers More Than One Choice There Is Always Another Way Life rarely offers only a single path. Every situation contains multiple possibilities, even if they are not immediately visible. This is one of the fundamental principles explored by the Percomboo World. Often, we notice only the most obvious solution. Habit, fear, external pressure, or a limited perspective can easily convince us that there is no alternative. Yet when we pause, remain open, and view the situation from a different angle, new paths begin to emerge. Percomboo helps people recognize these possibilities and encourages them to explore them. Recognizing—and sometimes simply accepting—those other options exist is one of the foundations of personal growth.  Different Paths. Shared Principles. Percomboo reveals universal principles that appear both in movement and in the many situations we encounter throughout life. These principles are universal; they are not tied to any particular technique, philosop...

  Plato, Necessity, and the World of Percomboo I recently visited the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition in London. In the accompanying images, the figure of Plato approaches—bringing  with him those fundamental questions that were already relevant more than two thousand years ago, and perhaps are even more so today. Two quotations from Plato’s Republic : “Our need will be the real creator.” (Book I) “The object of education is not to put knowledge into the soul that was not there before, but to turn the soul toward the light.” (Book VII) Along these two ideas, I would like to illuminate the perspective of Percomboo. 1. The Path of Percomboo – When Form Is Born from Necessity Form is not born from imitation, but from necessity. Necessity is the true creator. Every human life is different. From this it follows that needs are also different. Individuality is not a mystical concept; it is simply the sum of individual needs and capacities. No matter how much...