that true conclusions can only be reached or approached by pursuing the truth without regard to where it may lead or what its effect may be on different interests so what do we say in there now he’s saying wait a second wait a second what shouldn’t we be going after the truth like isn’t it look if i’m working with dave and i think my plan is better well then i need to tell him that that’s the truth the truth is my plan’s better and what’s so hard about this this is one of those universal things that pisses me off i got you is there’s no one that it’s it’s a it’s it’s against all uh moral high ground to lie right so the opposite of lying is what truth telling the truth so if we’re starting to think that this is not telling the truth then what are we doing we must be lying so how do so how do we reconcile that’s what he’s saying how do we reconcile this wait i have a different plan than dave i think my plan’s better i should tell him the truth that’s what i should do i shouldn’t lie to him well we’re not talking about lying to him back to the book history bears witness to the vital part that the prophets have played in human progress which is evidence of the ultimate practical value of expressing unreservedly the truth as one sees it okay so now we’re gonna get he’s gonna use the example historical examples and there’s countless of prophets someone that is a prophet that stands up and says this is the truth as i see it and tells the truth yet it also becomes clear that the acceptance and spreading of their vision has always depended on another class of men what’s the other class of men leaders leaders who had to be philosophical strategists striking a compromise between truth and men’s receptivity to it so lately i’ve been saying a lot of what good is telling the truth if no one hears it or no one listens to you you if you if you stab somebody in the eye with the dagger of truth what are they gonna do they’re gonna be pissed they’re gonna they’re gonna lash out at you they might even you know pull out a sidearm and shoot you in the gut but they definitely don’t want to hear anything from it and they’ll do their best to pull that thing back out and stab you with it so you haven’t made any progress at all so that’s what a prophet does a prophet says this is the truth and they stab you in the eye with it a leader has to find that compromise between telling the truth and getting people to actually listen to it their effect has often depended as much on their own limitations in perceiving the truth as on their practical wisdom in proclaiming it so how are you going to tell the truth practical wisdom how are you going to what are you going to say how are you going to say it where it will actually be listen to and then he goes on to say this the prophets must be stoned that is their lot that is their test of their self-fulfillment right what happens the prophet the prophet gets stolen the prophet gets crucified that’s what happens but a leader who is stoned may merely prove that he has failed in his function through a deficiency of wisdom or through confusing his function with that of a prophet this is pure brilliance by the way this is absolute pure brilliance so if you’re that if you’re in a leadership position and what you do is you start stabbing people with the dagger of truth in the neck and you think you’re doing a good thing guess what they’re going to tackle you and they’re going to stone you to death they’re gonna execute you because you were stabbing people and it offended them and it hurt them and that you didn’t convince anybody of anything so sometimes you get a leader that’s like oh look the truth is listen dave i gotta tell you the truth here that’s not good it’s not going to help you dude it’s crazy you’re like on page one i know page one half yeah i think the the phrase that’s been coming to mind a lot lately when you talk about this is is a truth that it’s imposed upon somebody compared to the truth that they discover for themselves the difference between those two and i’m thinking of all the like the phrases that people use when they’re going to reveal the truth let me stop you right there actually like and when you hear people prepping for the the direct assault which is i’m now gonna let you know and even the preparation for that just that phrase alone puts the other person in a position where all they want to do is defend themselves and the words that come next almost don’t even matter because if i say actually jocko the reality is the reality is the first thing you do is is you mentally you are dug in no matter how truthful i’m going to be after that it’s just the connection he’s making though like the how universal that is to all interactions is just it’s it’s crazy listening to this and then the the application to every interaction you have like with every with any human being and how instinctive it is to i guess tell the truth and how ineffective that way of thinking is if there’s an outcome that you’re trying to shape um echo charles yes sir have you ever seen the movie raiders of the lost ark yes sir okay so there’s an ark right the ark of the covenant and i think the truth is kind of like that if you reveal that truth in an improper way people’s faces are melting off oh yeah yeah that’s what happens yeah so people people treat the truth as if it’s only benevolent as if it can only do good yeah but you got to remember there’s collateral that truth causes collateral damage and people don’t pay attention to that so when you start pulling off the lid maybe you gotta like you gotta prep people for it you gotta say hey turn your eyes for a second here there’s gonna be some bright lights if you don’t prep them for and what what we want to do what we want to do is we want them to reveal the truth to themselves that’s what we really want a really good leader look a prophet will show you the truth maybe you’re getting melted a really good leader you somehow discover the truth i mean they showed it to you but you don’t even know it so the whole expression the truth hurts you know that that because that’s kind of common right so would that be an indicator of maybe a profit or or at the top at least not the correct that’s profit all day long profit is like look look echo truth hurts but i’m going to tell you something you know what i mean how how how open-minded are you when i get done with that statement oh i would meet it with stubborn resistance check and you know we like to think that well you know i really have a good relationship with someone you know great there might be one person in your entire life that you can be like hey dude that was jacked up and you’re like cool got it what adjustments do i need there’s one person in your life you can do that with yeah maybe isn’t that at the end of the day in a way the indirect approach anyway because you know you say okay that one person yeah but you know why is that one person because you have this years and years and years and years and years of this indirect you know kind of approach or whatever and then yeah so you open up that little hole that yeah you have that direct line all day now yeah now exactly yes you are correct even that approach because if you would have met that person day one three years ago and said you know i was looking at that video you made i’m not feeling it actually you know the camera angles that you use kind of marginal right five years of working with you before i could be like brah the soundtrack no actually you put a christmas song in there it was actually right away i dig it you’re right
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