it isn’t worth noting that the personality determined malaise of groupthink produces once again those four most frequently occurring symptoms of past military incompetence wastage of manpower overconfidence underestimation of the enemy and ignoring of intelligence reports these it seems are the enduring hazards of professionalizing violence and i can tell you these are not only the hazards of professionalizing violence these are the enduring hazards for us as human beings as leaders that we can all fall into and as you pointed out this book is a is a big warning of what not to do i i gotta i said it was the last thing i’m gonna read but there’s a look this guy’s funny and i did a bad job of relaying some of his humor here’s the afterward of this book and this is the last thing i’m going to read from this book after six podcasts sure he says this is so british he says lest the reader should have doubted my qualifications to write this book let me assure him that i have marked authoritarian traits a weak ego fear of failure motivation and no illusions about the fact that i would have made a grossly incompetent general it takes one to no one that was from the author in 1975 it’s a little bit of humor and you know he says it takes one to no one but that’s unfortunately not true it’s unfortunately not true if you think you’re incompetent there’s a better chance that you’re not incompetent you can see where i’m going this if you think you’re incompetent there’s a there’s a better chance that you’re not incompetent because if you think you’re incompetent you’re you’re actually humble and you’re thinking oh you know i don’t man i need to listen to what other people have to say i need to check myself i need to learn i need to open my mind and see what other information i can gather because i gather because i feel like i might be incompetent so if you feel kind of when people ask me about the imposter syndrome yeah what about imposters good that means you’re actually thinking man do i even need to be i always had that i always felt like oh man if i’m gonna need to be making decisions i better do my homework i better think this through i better pay attention so if you think you’re incompetent you probably aren’t but if you’ve been listening to these six straight podcasts and you’ve been thinking that this book is about all the uncompetent leaders around you that’s a little warning sign be careful because if you are in that mindset where you think man i can’t believe how jacked up all these other leaders are well not you red flag because chances are this is about you and look here’s the other red flag it’s a scale right you brought that up it’s it’s a it’s a continuum yeah and so we all of us even if you feel like you’re pretty competent you are under threat of being dragged to incompetency so all these little this book is just a warning sign after a warning sign after warning sign and by the way there’s nothing new there’s almost nothing new there’s one thing that i said that’s a new thought to me i forget what it was but in these 400 pages and whatever we just did 12 15 hours worth of podcasts it’s all a it’s a rehash it’s a reinforcement of information that i already knew that we already knew that we talk about all the time that we’ve seen in a bunch of other situations it’s a rehash but we’re all getting you can we can all get pulled over there we can get pulled towards that authoritarian mindset because you know why we get pulled towards the authoritarian mindset we get pulled towards that authority mindset because it seems easier it seems easier to say shut up and do what i told you to do it seems easier to say you know what i’m not going to listen to that piece of information it seems easier to do that it seems like the right move it seems easier to say you know what the competitor’s never going to be able to do what we’re doing it seems easier and it’s not so you got to get watched you got to watch out you got to pay attention you’re going to be careful we all have to be on guard incompetence incompetence is out there sort of ready to attack it’s ready to attack yes sir and if you’re not on guard it’ll grab you it’ll pull you down and you’ll be making bad decisions and getting people killed or ruining your business or ruining your marriage or ruining your life through incompetence so we have to pay attention you got to be careful uh we got to stay on the path yes sir the path speaking of which you know yeah what do you got for us how do you advise we we we avoid incompetence mental incompetence leadership incompetence physical incompetence well yeah we don’t want to have that what do you got for us echo that was the uh what do you call the dunning-kruger effect right that you kind of referred to where the the it takes one to know and that’s not necessarily true yeah that it feels like when you you think you know everything it’s like it’s easy to know everything when you think there’s only like three or four things to know but then when you start jujitsu and you’re like man once i know how to stop that arm lock i’ll be good kind of be it yeah because you got arm locked three times yeah by some random you know blue belt and you’re like oh dude i’m gonna stop that and then you get chilled figured it out did you learn how to stop the joke then your heel hooked yeah it did not stop that heel hook yeah it just goes on yeah stop yeah so the guy well actually it does stop after like you get heel hooked arm locked ezekiel choked freaking then you go oh there’s a lot more i don’t know what i’m doing yes so it takes a minute to convince you of that yeah so that’s when you kind of when the it’s all the dunning-kruger effect it’s it’s essentially like yeah when you think you people who are like so confident they’re the ones that know less than the people who are like not confident at all because they know how much there is not to know almo you know they have a grasp on it or whatever yeah dave good deal dave said something i forget his exact words but i wish i remembered it was something like oh yeah there when he’s talking about jiu jitsu he was like um yeah it’s it’s almost like you get what you you learn what do you say it’s almost like you get worse over time because yesterday there was only three things i didn’t know like now there’s like 40 things that i don’t know kind of tomorrow there’s a thousand years yeah yeah the day that you start to look start to feel okay is when you go oh there’s an infinite number of things i don’t know yeah yeah i just don’t know anything yeah i think exactly right
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