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Is Self Defense the Most Overlooked Stabilizer of Young Male Psyche? – Jocko Willink

Join the conversation on Twitter/Instagram: @jockowillink @echocharles Excerpt from JOCKOPODCAST 33

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Eric Arroyo says:

Nine times out of 10, people who understand violence are disturbed by it. Even your everyday fist fight can go wrong a hundred ways — Broken bones, brain damage, death. People who don’t know how to fight don’t understand just how fragile they or their opponent are. So they fight at the drop of a hat.

Leo Dolfo says:

Certainly was a BIG stabilizer for me 🤚🏻

punkguitar 49 says:

I totally agree that self defense is a huge stabilizer in people. I also think it helps deescalate verbal conflicts as well, people who are afraid of conflict and have never seen a conflict turn physical often behave like cornered animals. Insulting and threatening you, whereas someone who can fight wouldn’t threaten anyone unless they were 100% serious. But I do think as young boys sometimes fighting out small disagreements is useful, it’s a quick way to establish pack order and is usually not actually dangerous since kids aren’t strong enough to cause real damage

S.C.PERFORMANCE says:

100%, couldn’t agree more! Never scared, but always and forever prepared.

408 Thewon says:

Young guys always rely on pure anger and strength to defend themselves. It's always the guy that's in the gym 5 days a week that has the most confidence and gets smashed on friday night when he gets sloppy drunk and starts shit

Anthony Scimeca says:

I shrimp in bed to get to my side.

Theyoung Carpenter says:

I feel it I think about fighting everyone I meet and I game plan it to

TracFit Inc. says:

“It doesn’t matter if I’m meeting Santa Clause, I’m thinking about doing a double leg.” 🎅 💀

TexasRob28 says:

BJJ isn't the end all be all! I believe whatever you train in will give you everything,that they talked about.

Kay D says:

When he said fighting mitigates intelligence I lost it

Adam Smith says:

I agree…sports and combat sports in particular are essential to character development. That confident business guy you meet might have been a NCAA wrestler.

BrandonOfJapan says:

Not really, i think it could be more of a detriment to the mental health of young males. Considering how some people still hold onto that sheep wolf mentality, it might just inflate their ego if anything causing them to do more irrational things.

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Big Smoke says:

No one said that learning a skill made his/her life worse.

Enoc Villanueva says:

The Romans and Greeks believed the same thing

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