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My sons been taking karate for 18 months, and every time he tests for the next rank (hes up to his blue belt now), fewer kids who started with him as white belts test alongside him. Its not that Matthews necessarily a better athlete than they are, but karate is more important to him. He likes learning the forms, and he enjoys surviving a two hour, physically grueling test knowing that most of his friends would have been flattened in the first 20 minutes. When aspiring writers start identifying themselves as authors, just as Matthew sees himself as a martial artist, theyve taken that first big step toward success.