The Institute

#6

The real art of fighting is about living your life really, really well, and only fight periodically. It’s like a good boxing match—you have twelve rounds, but the objective is to only engage in the survival part of the fight maybe once. Bernard Hopkins has a philosophy about minimizing the amount of fights you have to have before you fight. He’s talking about fighting sex addiction, partying, video games, Instagram, and all of these other distractions in everyone’s life. If you have all of these battles before you get in the ring, you have a problem. Hopkins says that the reason why he has lasted so long is because he only has one fight. He doesn’t have to fight his diet, because he’s always watching what he eats. He doesn’t have to fight getting up early in the morning to train, because he is not out late partying. He’s minimized his fights.

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