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🇯🇵 吾勝. Agatsu - Self Victory🥋正勝吾勝 , (Masakatsu Agatsu, true victory is self victory)The kanji symbols that form it are:吾 – A- I, oneself勝 – Gatsu – victoryThis is a term that was born within the Japanese martial art. It is part of one of the sayings that the great master Ueshiba, founder of Aikido, always repeated to his disciples.正勝　吾勝　勝速日Masakatsu Agatsu Katsuyabi"The true victory is the victory over oneself, here and now"Ueshiba repeated this phrase over and over again to remind all his students that the fight begins first within, with ourselves. That the competition is not outside, but inside. That we should not focus on what others are doing to measure us when it comes to defining how much effort we will make to prosper. The focus should always be on overcoming ourselves.