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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 . Anything capable of initiating a change in our phys...

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...

We often imagine that action is the true beginning. The strike, the step, the decision, the movement. But action is only the surface. The real beginning happens earlier—quietly, invisibly—when we finally see what is in front of us without distortion. Observation is recognition. Not guessing, not interpreting, not hoping. Just letting reality stand as it is. When we observe clearly, the situation reveals its patterns, its direction, its weight. Nothing needs to be forced. Nothing needs to be invented. We simply meet what is already there. Most people look, but they do not see. They stare through a wall of emotions, memories, fears, and expectations. So their reactions are never truly about the moment—they are about their own inner noise. But when the noise falls to the background, even for a second, the world becomes sharp. Precise. Unfiltered. This is the first movement of Percomboo: the silent shift where perception becomes clean. Once this happens, action becomes eff...

The Porb is more than a shape. It is a quiet proof that form can exist without edges, without hierarchy, without direction. It does not begin; it does not end. What the Porb is A form: perfectly round — the least surface area for a given volume. It looks the same from every angle. An instrument: when touched, moved, or simply observed, it vibrates to attention and asks the hand and the mind to come back to completeness. A symbol: unity in motion. Every point on it is an equal distance from a hidden heart — felt, never seen. A tool: it teaches balance. It rolls, turning effort into flow. Whoever works with a Porb enters a quiet dialogue with a universe that prefers circles. Every motion is circular. Every change returns — nothing repeats exactly the same. Core Principles All sides equal. The Porb has no front, no back, no superior point. Flow over force. Movement with the Porb is surrender, not struggle. The invisible core. Its true power is felt, not shown....

    In the desert, where silence was heavier than sand and the stars had not yet opened their eyes, a lone traveller stumbled across the endless dunes.    The sun, now a bruised ember on the horizon, had spent the day dragging fire across his skin. His lips were cracked silence. His legs, memory alone. Each step had become a negotiation between breath and collapse. Finally, as twilight dissolved the edge of the world, he fell beside a solitary palm tree — the only whisper of life in an ocean of stillness.    There, beneath the fronds that shivered against the cooling sky, he lay down. His bones felt hollow. His past, distant. His future, unimaginable. All that remained was the weight of exhaustion, like stone tied to spirit.    Night descended slowly, painting everything in a hush of blue and ash.    Then came light.    It wasn't the moon. It wasn’t the stars. It was movement — flame carving through the sky like a br...

A Personal Decision-Making Framework in Percomboo IF Tactics are a fundamental component of the Percomboo  world. They function as personal decision-making frameworks, enabling individuals to respond effectively to internal or external conditions through structured, conditional logic. At their core, IF Tactics follow a simple structure: If [Condition], then choose from [Primary Options] → followed by [Secondary Options or Recommendations]. These tactics serve as the moment where an individual transitions from merely understanding Universal Principles to actively shaping or performing their InFi . IF Tactics are how the Percomboo world presents dynamic choices to individuals, empowering them to make conscious, situational decisions. Key Elements of IF Tactics Condition: The triggering factor or circumstance (internal or external). Primary Options (formerly “primary demo”): The broad, high-level responses available to the individual. Secondary Op...

   As in life, in the Percomboo world we present possible options, opinions, and universal principles—or the truth. For this reason, we highlight the teachings of two well-known ancient philosophers: Plato and Lao Tzu. Their wisdom both overlaps and diverges. They show us objective realities and subjective viewpoints. That is how the Percomboo world works. As usual, knowing what is opinion and what is truth is not always easy. Percomboo helps us, through the Ancients, to find clarity. PLATO    Plato and Lao Tzu are exemplary Ancients who have had an enormous impact on people across time and cultures. In Percomboo, they are not viewed as gurus to be blindly followed, but rather as representatives of two significant worldviews. They reflect two distinct philosophical traditions—Eastern and Western. Though both lived hundreds of years before Christ, they had different focuses, perspectives, and cultural contexts. Yet, they also have much in common.    Plato ...