• SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The phrase is a reference to the original karate kid movie. Rather than immediately teaching Daniel karate, Mr miyagi made him wax a bunch of cars, paint fences, sand floors, etc. The repetitive motions were actually training for particular karate moves, so rather than instructing the move, he already had it committed to muscle memory.

    Pretty sure the context of the post means “non-obvious advice.” Something that clicks later.

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      6 months ago

      It was about doing something seemingly unrelated and simple that helped to learn something more profound. Not seeing it in most (any?) of the answers.

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        6 months ago

        The „make you bed every day“ advice certainly goes in that direction.

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          6 months ago

          Yes, there is one now! And if you ain’t really hard the coffee one brushes against the question.