Tea LeavesLife lessons from anime and martial arts
Japanese intuitive learning teaches that relying on experience is what counts
Aikido founder Morihei Ueshiba, standing, gives a demonstration in Tokyo in 1967. The author's experiences in learning the martial art in Japan were very different than they were in the U.S. © Getty Images
RICHARD CONRAD
February 10, 2021 11:09 JST
There is a scene in the hit Japanese anime TV series "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba " in which the demon slaying mentor, Sabito, tells the hero, Tanjiro, that he is failing to learn his craft properly because "your body doesn't understand anything."