Srdjan Vukcevic - Executive Coach

Zadnje veče. Black tie. Dvjesta zvanica.

Konferansije najavljuje jedinog novog člana najekskluzivnijeg dizajnerskog udruženja na svijetu.

Slavimir Stojanović Futro kreće da ustaje. Ustane do pola.

A onda čuje drugo ime.

Cijela epizoda na YouTube kanalu Gentle Provocation. Link u bio.

Everyone in that room is playing with half a deck.

If the problem involves how people behave — and it always does — then psychology isn’t one more variable. It’s the one everyone forgot to put on the table.

Rory Sutherland on why the smartest people in the room keep solving the wrong equation.

Gentle Provocation EP. 01. Link in bio.

I told sensei Naoki Eiga that when I watched him as a younger man, I saw something beyond strength in his kendo. Kokoro. Emotion. Softness alongside the force.

He answered by saying he had been weak, and wanted to become strong. That repeating that process of growth is how he got here.

Then: he is not here alone. His family, his friends. The hearts of many people made him who he is.

So he doesn’t fight to win. He fights to repay them.

Four All-Japan 8th Dan titles — three in a row, the first in the tournament’s history — and this is what he wanted to talk about.

Full conversation on the channel.

Gentle Provocation

In kendo, timing matters more than the strike. So I asked Naoki Eiga how a person learns to find the right moment — in the dojo, and in life.

He didn’t give a method. He started by saying it’s difficult, and that he doesn’t know the right answer each time.

Then he said this: if you do each single thing earnestly and seriously, you come to grasp those moments on your own.

Not a technique you can be taught. A byproduct of how you do everything else.

Full conversation - link in bio.

Gentle Provocation

Naoki Eiga has won the All-Japan 8th Dan championship four times — three in a row, the first in the tournament’s history.

Asked how to keep young people going after defeat or injury, he didn’t talk about discipline.

He said: teach them the joy. Let them have small successes. And show them your own failures — then show them you kept going anyway.

Then he added the part that stayed with me. At 59, there are still techniques and states of mind he hasn’t reached. So he keeps studying.

Full conversation on the channel.

Gentle Provocation

The Beauty of Never Being Finished

Kendo gives you something rare: a lifetime of challenges.

Naoki Eiga Sensei reflects on growing stronger in both mind and body—and on the joy of connecting with people of every age, from all over the world.

There is always more to learn. And that is what makes the journey beautiful.

Naoki Eiga. Četvorostruki prvak Osmih danova. Prvak Japana i svijeta u kendou.

Jedne godine izgubio je finale. Sudije su dosudile pobjedu protivniku. Vratio se kući ubijeđen da su ga oštetili.

Onda je pogledao snimak.

U japanskom streličarstvu postoji izreka: strijelac kad promaši metu ne krivi strijelu — mora u sebe da pogleda.

Shvatio je da je on taj potez planirao. Njegov protivnik nije. Izašlo je iz njega prirodno — a Eiga je svoj udarac isplanirao. I baš u tom neskladu je izgubio.

Cijelu narednu godinu tražio je put nazad kroz čišćenje poda sale. Onako kako to rade početnici u kendou.

Vicešampion Japana, godinu dana, čisti pod.

Godinu poslije — Eiga je šampion Japana.

Puna epizoda — link u bio.

Kad bi u sportu uvijek najbolji pobjeđivao —
sport bi bio dosadan.

Zamislite golf gdje je rupa široka metar.

Ko bi to gledao?

Baš taj promašaj čini sport. Testira karakter
da si za malo omašio.

Dragan Adžić: u sportu i dalje ne pobjeđuje
onaj ko ima najviše novca.

Sport je još uvijek najčistija stvar.

Puna epizoda — link u bio.

Dragan Adžić: Ne baviti se drugima — ni po dobru, ni po zlu.

Molio je Miku Uzelca za salu u Autorexu.

Kad to nije išlo — osnovna škola. Prostorija u kojoj se nije moglo ni trenirati pravi rukomet.

Nikome to nije smetalo. Volio je da radi.

Sve ih je to ojačalo. Godinu dana kasnije stigli su prvi rezultati.

Velika većina bi odustala — ili bi se bavila time zašto su baš njih tamo poslali.

Dragan Adžić: u Crnoj Gori je najvažnije ne baviti se drugima. Ni po dobru, ni po zlu. Hvalili vas ili kudili — svoj pravac, svoj put.

Mi smo ovdje malo previše opterećeni drugima. I to nas sigurno koči.

Puna epizoda — link u bio.