Bruce Lee: Beyond the Limits

by Bruce Thomas

Beyond the Limits uses Bruce Lee’s own words to reveal that his ambitions were far greater than achieving fame and fortune as a movie star, or creating a revolutionary new fighting method. Behind everything he did was an understanding that can lead any of us to our fullest potential and greatest possibilities — and into what he himself called ‘a circle without limits’. Bruce Lee’s art and teaching is an authentic ‘way’ that embraces both Chinese wisdom and quantum physics — as well as being fifty years ahead of its time by foreseeing the discoveries of cutting-edge sciences like epigenetics and neuroplasticity. This book really does go far beyond the limits of anything that has ever been written about Bruce Lee’s life and work. Full of new insight, it explains what motivated his whole life — and reveals his true legacy and greatness. You will see Bruce Lee in a whole new light.

207 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 1, 2017

Reviews

[Becs Davis · Rating 5 out of 5]

I connected to everything said in this book and was great timing for the mindset I have been trying to achieve. Powerful!

[Bernie Gourley · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an eclectic self-help book that draws on the philosophy of, and quotes from, Bruce Lee. I will say that there are parts, particularly in the second half of the book, that steer wide of the grounded pragmatism that I've found to mark Bruce Lee's philosophy in other writings by, and about, him. In his martial arts, Lee famous advocated stripping away the extraneous and developing one's personal expression, and while this book carries that message as well, it also gets lost in the weeds. As the author tries to elucidate the - often spare and epigramic - words of Bruce Lee, he often loses Lee's grounded simplicity and dives into speculative and needlessly complicated territory.

The book presents some interesting stories and research findings here and there, often from recent years (e.g. about epigenetics and quantum mechanics --) i.e. well after Lee's death. Many times, those diversions and elucidations were beneficial, but other times they diverged into New Age pseudo-science that I don't think served the book's objective.

If you are interested in how Bruce Lee's philosophy can be applied to living, I'd say about 90 percent of this book does a fine job with that task. I wouldn't spend much time with the other ten percent as it seems to reflect more how the author, Thomas, wishes the world to be than how Lee thought or felt it to be.