Learning to Face Your Opponent

A timeless lesson about relationships from the martial arts

Mitch Ditkoff
3 min readJan 27

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Photo by Sam Moghadam Khamseh on Unsplash

Sometimes, in life, a single word or a single sentence can make a huge difference — an unexpected communication that penetrates to the core of your being and then radiates from the inside out for the rest of your life. I had one such moment 40 years ago when I was a novice Aikido student in Los Angeles.

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Mitch Ditkoff

Co-Founder of Idea Champions, Face The Music & Sage Catalysts. Author of Storytelling for the Revolution, Storytelling at Work, Unspoken Word and Free the Genie