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MY BLACK BELT
JOURNEY
Pietari Posti
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BY SCOTT B. TICKNOR
aekwondo: literally, “the art of kicking and punching.” It didn’t sound like the kind
of skill I needed to learn at the age of 40. I was more a guitar-playing, read-a-good-book kind of guy. And as a Foreign Service officer at the consulate in Mumbai, just getting through work and adjusting to a new culture put more
than enough on my plate.
It was 2003, and we were leading busy lives in a frenetic city. We’d gone through a nuclear scare that year when
IN TAEKWONDO, ONE PRACTITIONER LEARNS,
IT’S NOT THE DESTINATION THAT MATTERS
BUT THE JOURNEY
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