Scrum is a lot like that. It requires practice and attention, but also a continuous effort to reach a new state—a state where things just flow and happen. If you’ve ever watched great dancers or gymnasts, you know that their motion can almost seem effortless, as if they’re doing nothing but simply being. They seem as if they couldn’t be anything else but what they are in that moment. I experienced that one day when a diminutive aikido master threw me effortlessly through the air, and yet did so in a way that caused me to fall gently to the mat, as though I were a baby being gently placed in a
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