fluidity of forces may succeed where concentration of force merely entails rigidity a perilous rigidity so at times bruce lee sure we want to be like water fluidity of force is sometimes better than just concentration of force if you can move jeff glover on the jiu jitsu mats you you grab something on him and he’s somewhere else you grab something on dean he’s countering right but you grab something on jeffy glover he’s maneuvering like he’s gone it’s like a a piece of sir yeah you squeeze one part he pops out another part yes right with dean you can’t squeeze like it doesn’t go anywhere he does the squeezing yeah you’re getting squeezed that’s the way it worked all right just the word fluid and i mentioned it before i talk about fluid mutual support just the idea of of being fluid is it’s flexibility it’s the ability to be reactive to the situation in a way that puts you in a place to be available to support as you need it but far enough away to maneuver as you need to and i just i think the idea of of in this era them talking about fluid when the backdrop of world war one and i know we’ve hit this a thousand times the backdrop of world war one was was whatever the opposite of fluid is which is this inca the inability the inability to to to adjust to maneuver to do something you that that analogy you just did with like that slime thing of i squeeze here and something pops it over there that the being the ability to be fluid and the the inherent the the way you’d want to describe your organization or your or your reaction to things going on in your organization being fluid and how quickly people get to being rigid with their thought processes their ideas their objectives what they want to accomplish and how quickly it becomes rigid so so check this out we’re in world war one okay we actually have a culture that views fluidity as weakness the victorian culture if you want to run away from danger you’re a coward you’re weak now take that and bring a thread to the board room bring a thread to the conference room and accompany and if dave presents an idea to me and i back down because i agree with his id or i back down because i oh i see some holes in my idea i might be viewed as weak so i’m not going to be fluid instead i’m going to be rigid i’m going to stand up to dave we’re going to fight about it and by the way if i out rank you i’m gonna win it’s freaking ridiculous crazy but we have this culture and and that culture you know look the culture the reason that culture exists especially the culture of rigidity is directly tied to our human nature our ego right because we feel like oh i don’t wanna i’m not gonna back down to dave i’m not gonna let that happen it’s like actually you know what good call dave i like your idea better the the odd thing about this is that it makes me look stronger it makes me look open-minded and flexible and confident to be like you know what dave like your idea let’s roll with that the whole room the whole freaking conference room goes damn taco’s got some confidence he’s good with whatever plan he just wants us to win as opposed to actually dave you know what i’ve heard enough from you we’re going with my plan everyone in the room goes oh he’s weak i think i’m strong i’m being weak and everybody perceives me as weak everybody this is the one of the hardest lessons to learn it’s one of the hardest lessons to learn is that flexibility is viewed as a strength fluidity is viewed as a strength putting your ego and being humble is viewed as strength and when you do the opposite when you’re rigid it’s viewed as weakness when you let your ego flare up it’s viewed as weakness it’s viewed as insecurity and we see this all day long we see this all day long check
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