The Bruce Lee Code

“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself; do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” —Bruce Lee Bruce Lee was a brand well before that became commonplace. Step into the Dragon’s mind and explore how he thought about business, goals, and life. The Bruce Lee Code focuses on the business strategies prevalent in Lee’s life and teachings that helped unlock his full potential. Bruce Lee’s attention to brand is a major reason why he continues to influence pop culture today. He was a pioneer, being one of the first Hollywood stars to start his own production company. To recharge America’s creative and entrepreneurial swagger, we need to reexamine Lee’s life and teachings. Although he died in 1973 at age thirty-two, Lee remains a global icon who continues to influence the contemporary world in ways both obvious and subtle. Lee was primarily known for his otherworldly martial arts skills and blockbuster movies such as Enter the Dragon and Fist of Fury. But he was also a man of incredible vision, willpower, and intellectual curiosity whose brief career inspired highly successful projects in Hollywood, sports, comic books, video games, and fashion. In many ways, Lee resembled Apple cofounder Steve Jobs. Both men possessed remarkable self-assurance and a desire to disrupt the status quo. Jobs did not invent the computer, tablet, or MP3 player. Instead, Jobs’s genius was taking existing products and ideas and turning them into something better. Lee also did not hesitate to liberally borrow and emulate. He fused Eastern and Western ideas and techniques to make unique films that would appeal to worldwide audiences. He created his own unique style of martial arts and philosophies that drew upon a deep reservoir of historical and contemporary influences. This book draws upon Bruce Lee’s extensive writings, including letters, journals, and business documents, as well as interviews with those who knew him personally.

Linda Lee chronicles the life of her husband, martial artist Bruce Lee, focusing on their life together and her husband's film career.

This book presents the martial arts aspects according to the perspective Bruce Lee had on the combat, especially the effects of its reality. However, as the reader goes on with through the pages, he/she will notice that the combat is not a mere bodily disposition of the victorious and physical attitudes, but a matter of the own genesis in life. This books works as a guide to the understanding of the art, whose life only exists in the practice of its physical and mental action. The technical studies of the combative biomechanics presented in this book are meant as a way of informing the reader about the investigation perimeters and the personal clarification of the art in the martial arts. I will show through the content that follows, the existence of a code that Bruce Lee intended to leave us, one that provides the keys that open the door for a highly fruitful lucid and extremely enlightening life. The strength in which Bruce Lee lived his life in search of his personal development and the dictates of the existential philosophy, transcend his short period of life in the world. Impetuous and young, Lee built a legacy that resonates to the current days, not as something of his own, but as a view towards the world and the martial arts, one that had never been seen up until then. Through his path, Bruce Lee taught us how to acquire more knowledge over the practitioner's dilemmas in martial arts and its rational aspects, clearly described in the combative reality's perspective and the evidence of its effects. However, some crazy fuss took place after Bruce Lee's death, messing up with the form Jeet Kune Do should be analyzed and practiced. Those misunderstandings and misconceptions and the way they harmly influence the true comprehension of this philosophy will be elicited in this book.

Examines the life of martial artist and actor Bruce Lee, following him from his formative years in Hong Kong to his controversial death; discusses his training methods and philosophy of martial arts; looks at his movie work; and includes reminiscences by friends and colleagues.

Get to know the true Bruce Lee through the eyes of his friend, M. Uyehara. Pound for pound, he may have been the greatest fighter who ever lived. Read about his good and bad times, his dreams and destiny shattered by his early death.

Part of the Bruce Lee's Fighting Method series, this book teaches how to perform jeet kune do's devastating strikes and exploit an opponent's weaknesses with crafty counterattacks like finger jabs and spin kicks.

Shows how Bruce Lee's life, his art, and his untimely death affected and influenced his worldwide legion of fans. This book helps in learning about his art, jeet kune do, through his personal replies to letters he received in 1967.

This fascinating collection showcases how Bruce Lee lived and how we can all live better, fuller lives by following his example. Bruce Lee was more than a movie star or a martial artist. For many people, he was a living example of the incredible things a person can accomplish through dedication, perseverance and sheer force of will. In just 33 years before his untimely death, Bruce Lee created new styles of fighting, and became an international film star, television personality, philosopher and cultural icon in the process. This inspirational new book presents a carefully curated selection of photos, stories, anecdotes and ephymera, plus favorite film notes, lines and commentary from friends, family, peers and rivals. It distills the iconic fighter’s approach to making the most out of life into a beautifully bound book that would be treasured by any Bruce Lee fan, as well as those readers looking for an inspired approach to living a richer, more fulfilling existence.