Nov 17, 2016 15:37
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Hello everyone,
John Kavanagh, a famous fighter and coach, writes in his book as follows (explaining why he wants more to be a coach, not a fighter):
"Kieran McGeeney, who captained Armagh to the All Ireland Senior Football Championship in 2002, is now a coach at SBG Ireland. He often says that you need to have a **darkness** inside you to compete at a high level in any sport. If you can’t tap into that dark side, you’ll quickly come unstuck. I was an example of a fighter who didn’t have access to the dark side. I can recall being in control during fights and part of me would feel like telling my opponent what he needed to do to get out of a position or something: ‘No, move your hand here.’ Coaching and teaching always came more naturally to me than competing and winning"
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/darkness?s=t
noun
1.
the state or quality of being dark :
The room was in total darkness.
2.
absence or deficiency of light:
the darkness of night.
3.
wickedness or evil:
Satan, the prince of darkness.
4.
obscurity; concealment:
The darkness of the metaphor destroyed its effectiveness.
5.
lack of knowledge or enlightenment:
heathen darkness.
6.
lack of sight; blindness.
I'm not sure in what meaning "darkness/dark" is used in the text above.
Based on context, my only guess is that he probably means that one should hide his/her thoughts in a fight, but I'm not sure.
A little bit earlier in the text John explaining the same thing (why he doesn't want to be a fighter,) writes:
"Whenever I fought, in order to motivate myself I needed to do something that I always tell my fighters not to do, and that is to become emotionally invested in a contest. My friend Robbie Byrne would often have to make up some crazy stuff before a fight to get me interested: ‘John, I heard this guy saying terrible things about your sister earlier on. Make him pay for it.’ I’d then charge out from my corner and tear into my opponent. It didn’t matter that what Robbie was saying wasn’t true, it succeeded in getting me wound up."
Can "darkness" imply being angry?
Thank you.
John Kavanagh, a famous fighter and coach, writes in his book as follows (explaining why he wants more to be a coach, not a fighter):
"Kieran McGeeney, who captained Armagh to the All Ireland Senior Football Championship in 2002, is now a coach at SBG Ireland. He often says that you need to have a **darkness** inside you to compete at a high level in any sport. If you can’t tap into that dark side, you’ll quickly come unstuck. I was an example of a fighter who didn’t have access to the dark side. I can recall being in control during fights and part of me would feel like telling my opponent what he needed to do to get out of a position or something: ‘No, move your hand here.’ Coaching and teaching always came more naturally to me than competing and winning"
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/darkness?s=t
noun
1.
the state or quality of being dark :
The room was in total darkness.
2.
absence or deficiency of light:
the darkness of night.
3.
wickedness or evil:
Satan, the prince of darkness.
4.
obscurity; concealment:
The darkness of the metaphor destroyed its effectiveness.
5.
lack of knowledge or enlightenment:
heathen darkness.
6.
lack of sight; blindness.
I'm not sure in what meaning "darkness/dark" is used in the text above.
Based on context, my only guess is that he probably means that one should hide his/her thoughts in a fight, but I'm not sure.
A little bit earlier in the text John explaining the same thing (why he doesn't want to be a fighter,) writes:
"Whenever I fought, in order to motivate myself I needed to do something that I always tell my fighters not to do, and that is to become emotionally invested in a contest. My friend Robbie Byrne would often have to make up some crazy stuff before a fight to get me interested: ‘John, I heard this guy saying terrible things about your sister earlier on. Make him pay for it.’ I’d then charge out from my corner and tear into my opponent. It didn’t matter that what Robbie was saying wasn’t true, it succeeded in getting me wound up."
Can "darkness" imply being angry?
Thank you.
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an aggressive or anti-social side to your personality
The aspect of your personality that you don't particularly want others to see.
In Jungian psychology the shadow or dark side of the personality is the instinctive, irrational and often unknown side of the personaltiy.
"When we talk about having a “dark side,” we’re generally calling attention to our most aggressive, or lustful, anti-social instincts. Or the mean-spirited, bloodthirsty belligerence presumably lurking deep within us. Or our acting out impulses that would disrupt others’ lives—if not outright decimate them. Rape; mutilation; murder; unconscionable acts of thievery, betrayal, treachery, sadism, masochism; unbounded greed; incest; and so on. But what I’d like to suggest here is that perhaps your darkest fantasies shouldn’t be understood as all that demonic. Or at least that they can be much more compassionately appreciated as audacious, disinhibited, primitive, grandiose, or hedonistic—as opposed to, say, degrading, disgraceful, or nefarious."
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolution-the-self/2014...
In Jungian psychology the shadow or dark side of the personality is the instinctive, irrational and often unknown side of the personaltiy.
"When we talk about having a “dark side,” we’re generally calling attention to our most aggressive, or lustful, anti-social instincts. Or the mean-spirited, bloodthirsty belligerence presumably lurking deep within us. Or our acting out impulses that would disrupt others’ lives—if not outright decimate them. Rape; mutilation; murder; unconscionable acts of thievery, betrayal, treachery, sadism, masochism; unbounded greed; incest; and so on. But what I’d like to suggest here is that perhaps your darkest fantasies shouldn’t be understood as all that demonic. Or at least that they can be much more compassionately appreciated as audacious, disinhibited, primitive, grandiose, or hedonistic—as opposed to, say, degrading, disgraceful, or nefarious."
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolution-the-self/2014...
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Lingua 5B
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Yvonne Gallagher
: dark as opposed to light...doesn't have to be that aggressive, and inward/outward...
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Jörgen Slet
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B D Finch
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hidden
A hidden knowlege of yourself which has to be self-discovered.
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destructiveness/brutality
light and darkness, constructive and destructive energy
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