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Knowing your intent can be what makes your techniques but it can also be what breaks it. If you know what your intent behind a techniques is, then you know your reason for doing. If you don't know your intent, then you're just practicing the technique mindlessly. Practicing techniques without knowing your intent isn't always a bad thing. In most cases, if you don't know your intent then you are trying to find it. Sometimes knowing your intent can work against you. This usually doesn't happen with techniques in Kung Fu but rather it happens in the outside world. Let's say that you're trying to write a blog on a specific topic. Your intent is to write a blog on that topic, but along the way you find other things to write about. You start writing about that without realizing it and eventually you realize that you didn't even come close to finishing what your intent was. This isn't completely a bad thing, it just shows how intent can be the opposite of what you want it to be.