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Sensei Muda would tell me that the sooner I complete my training process would be free to go home. For this treason, I was eager so I would try to rush everything and do it as quickly as I could so that I could fast-track my learning, but it didn't work well. The harder I tried, the harder it was for me to achieve anything.

I had spent six months in the yellow region already without learning anything.

Sensei Muda had watched me for a long time and one day he decided to intervene.

He called me one day and told me to “give in to my environment rather than rush to get out”

I didn’t understand what he meant by that so he told me to walk with him and would give me silly tasks.

He would take me to the gardens, and we would pick crops, edible flowers, vegetables, and so on. He would even pick up a chicken or rabbit in its cage along with all of it, He would tell me a story about each crop he picked and would smell it and smile most intimately. Weirdo.

We then would go into the