Bruce Lee: Mastery Through Fluidity

Bruce Lee grew up as a small, often bullied kid in Hong Kong. He wasn’t the strongest

or most disciplined at first — he got into street fights and struggled with direction.

But everything changed when he discovered martial arts as a path not just to self-defense,

but to self-mastery. When Lee moved to the United States, he faced racism, rejection,

and rigid traditions that told him he didn’t belong — or that he shouldn’t teach martial arts

to non-Asians. He refused those limits. Instead, he created Jeet

Kune Do, a philosophy as much as a fighting style, centered on adaptability,

honesty, and freedom. “Be water,” he famously said — flexible, formless,