Thoughts from the movie The Last Samurai

In this podcast we look at a really cool scene in the movie The Last Samurai. Tom Cruise's character notes the following about the samurai in the village where he is imprisoned: "From the moment they wake up they devote themselves to the perfection of whatever they pursue" Can we pursue that level of perfection today? What would that look like? Is it even possible? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMT1r9IpIf0