So a listener dropped me an email and asked a simple yet complicated question, What do we do with people who have less than stellar abilities either mentally or physically in regard to the martial arts?  How do we rank them?  How do we treat them?  What do we do in the context of requirements and expectations?  And how are those to be adjusted if at all and for any reason? This is not an unusual quandary and it’s dealt with in many different ways sometimes not very successfully, as I have done in the past, but I have a new viewpoint which I hopefully think is more mature and I think more helpful for you in the long run. And I bet you never thought you would think a long-dead Senator from Minnesota would play into this either.  Take a listen and I hope you enjoy