Jocko Podcast 80 with Echo Charles – Musashi, “The Book of Five Rings”

this is Jocko podcast number 80 with echo Charles than me Jocko willing good evening echo good evening takis Oh lay among the corpses there were thousands of them the whole world’s gone crazy he thought dimly a man might as well be a dead leaf floating in the autumn breeze he himself looked like one of the lifeless bodies surrounding him he tried to raise his head but could only lifted a few inches from the ground he couldn’t remember ever feeling so weak how long have I been here he wondered flies came buzzing about his head he wanted to brush them away but he couldn’t even muster the energy to raise his arm it was stiff almost brittle like the rest of his body I must have been out of here for quite a while he thought wiggling one finger at a time little did he know he was wounded with two bullets lodged firmly in his thigh low dark clouds shifted ominously across the sky the night before sometime between midnight and Dawn a blinding rain had drenched the plane of segi Kihara it was now past noon on the fifteenth of the ninth month of 1600 though the typhoon had passed now and then fresh torrents of rain would fall on the corpses and on tetazoo upturned face each time it came he’d open and close his mouth like a fish trying to drink in the droplets it’s like the water they wipe a dying man’s lips with he reflected savoring each bit of moisture his head was numb his thoughts the fleeting shadows of delirium his side had lost he knew that much cobia waka hideki supposedly an ally had been secretly in league with the eastern army and when he turned on a sheet of min-koo saris troops at Twilight the tide of the battle turned to he then attacked the armies of other commanders ukita Shimazu and Konishi and the collapse of the western army was complete in only half a day’s fighting the question of who would henceforth rule the country was settled there was Tokugawa Yasu the powerful Edo daemul images of his sister and the old villagers floated before his eyes I’m dying he fought without a tinge of sadness is this what it’s really like he felt drawn to the peace of death like a child mesmerised by a flame and that right there is the opening of the novel called Musashi by eg yogi shower and a giant novel and it’s about the life of Miyamoto Musashi the Japanese swordsman from the late 1500s and early 1600s and he’s probably the most famous swordsman from Japan and I apologize for my pronunciation of Japanese names I’ll have to work on that but Musashi which is a book we are going to cover we’re not covering it today we’re going to cover it in podcast 100 that was decided upon when Tim Ferriss came on the podcast we’re gonna cover the be novel Musashi and again Musashi was a swordsman probably the most famous Japanese swordsman he was born into a samurai family around 1584 and there’s a lot of questions around his upbringing but the reports are that his father was a very tough and demanding samurai and then at some point around age 10 his father was either killed or something else happened and he basically disappeared now Musashi fought his first duel at age 13 against a grown man who he killed by throwing him to the ground and then beating him with a bokken which is basically a wooden sword and he fought multiple battles defending the Toyotomi clan which is he was aligned with and he continued to fight these duels amassing more than 60 wins now some of these duels are to the death some of them are they actually agree upon what they’re going to do before they fight and he won all the ones that he participated in and his most famous duel was against a guy named kojirou also known as Gahan drew and he was the the biggest rival of Musashi and they were both at the time when they fought like the most famous and feared swordsmen in Japan and then after that he went back and he’s a warrior so he went back he continued in combat he had a few more duels after that and most of that his life and and how that went up until that final duel is portrayed in this book in its historical fiction right there’s not that much truly known about his life and so this book that’s written by eg Yokogawa yoshikawa sorry it’s it’s a huge book and like I said we’re gonna cover ton podcast 100 and when we cover it by the way spoiler alert um that’s why we’ve been telling people since podcast number 50 because the book has one of the most astounding endings of any book and this thousand-page book you’ve made all builds towards this final ending which is literally on the last two pages it like the ending happens in it’s over and it’s awesome and it’s worth it but before we cover that book I thought it would be smart to cover two things that Musashi actually wrote himself so after that duel that famous duel with kojirou he became a retainer for some Royals and he was you know basically a warrior on staff and as he got older he ended up writing but the first thing you wrote was a book called the book of five rings which is really famous everybody knows it it’s correctly translated order alternative translation is the book of five spheres and another thing that he wrote was the del koto which one of the translations is the way of walking alone and we’ll get to that but first we’re going to talk about the book that this famous swordsman actually wrote which is pretty cool when you think about it so let’s dive in to the book of five rings going to the book I’ve set my mind on the science of martial arts since my youth long ago I was 13 years old when I had my first duel on that occasion I won over my opponent a martial artist named ARIMA keiki of the new school of accuracy you like that you like that Inu that’s the name of the school the new school of accuracy at age at 16 years of age I beat a powerful martial artist called Akiyama of the Tajima province when I was 21 I went to the capital city and meant martial artists from all over the country although I engaged in numerous duels never did I fail to attain victory after that I traveled from province to province meeting martial artists of the various schools although I dueled more than 60 times never once did I lose that all took place between the time I was 13 years old and the time I was 29 when I had passed the age of 30 and reflected on my experiences I realized that I had not been victorious because of consummate attainment of martial arts interesting statement he’s like I wasn’t victorious because of my supreme martial arts perhaps it was because I had an inherent skill for the science and had not deviated from natural principles they may also been due to the shortcomings in the martial arts of other schools in any case I subsequently practice day and night in order to attain an even deeper principle and spontaneously came upon the science of martial arts I was about fifty years old at that time so looking back and I feel the same way when I look back at my military career I think of all the things that I could do much better now when we were if we wrote if I would had the right extreme ownership when I was a task unit commander I wouldn’t have been able to put together side and have all that knowledge I couldn’t see it and so I had to actually go through it and then look back and reflect on it and then I understand my own lessons better and they actually become more clear to me you know with every day that goes by I understand a deeper principle of what I originally thought worked and I understand them more clearly since then I have passed the time with no science into which to inquire trusting in the advantage of military science as I turned it into the sciences of all arts and skills I have no teacher anything so he’s taken what he learned from the military and from martial sciences he just applies it to everything he doesn’t have any other scientists don’t need him yeah now in composing this book I have not borrowed the old sayings of Buddhism or Confucianism nor do I make use of old stories from military records or books on military science again I love this he doesn’t quote other things he doesn’t he’s not pulling quotes and using them he’s just he’s using his own words with heaven and and Canon for mirrors I take up the brush and begin to write at 4:00 a m on the night of the 10th of the tenth month 1643 I had to include that because clearly he’s he’s up before the enemy even though he’s a retired soldier 50 years old he’s actually he’s older than that 1643 he’s quite on a bit he’s up early and he’s writing this stuff now and again it’s amazing you can sit here and read what he wrote in 1643 back to the book martial arts are the Warriors way of life commanders in particular should practice these arts and soldiers must know this way of life in the present day there are no warriors with certain knowledge of the way of martial arts imagine he’s saying that when there’s literally samurais in existence in Japan and he’s like these guys don’t get it imagine would he be saying right now today first let us illustrate the idea of a way of life for the physician healing is a way of life a poet teaches the art of poetry others pursue fortune-telling archery or various other arts and crafts people practice the ways to which they are inclined develop individual preferences few people are fond of the martial way of life first of all the way of the Warriors the way of warriors means familiarity with both cultural and martial arts even if they are clumsy at this individual warriors should strengthen their own martial arts as much as is practical in their circumstances so he does say that a bunch you’ve got to be familiar with all you know obviously focused on martial arts but you’ve got to be familiar with the culture walls as well people usually think that all warriors think about is being ready to die as far as the way of death is concerned it is not limited to warriors medic ins women farmers and even those below them know their duty are ashamed to neglect it and resign themselves to death there is no distinction in this respect the marshal way of life practiced by warriors is based on excelling others in anything and everything I like that and that is actually what Uncle Jake in the book way the warrior kid tells young mark what’s a warrior a warrior is the one that’s doing his best in everything that he does so I’m down with Musashi on that one whether by victory in an individual duel or by winning a battle with several people one thinks of serving the interests of one’s employers of serving one’s own interests of becoming well-known and socially established this is all possible by the power of martial arts yet there will be people in the world who think that even if you learn martial arts this will not prove useful when a real need arises regarding that concern the true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at anytime and teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things clearly I subscribe to this and that’s why extreme ownership of the book we say all the time it’s applications to the battlefield to business and to life all but all all the same it’s all the same back to the book the field of martial arts is particularly rife with flamboyant showmanship with commercial popularization and profiteering on part of both those who teach the science and those who study it the result of this must be as someone said that amateur istic martial arts are a source of serious wounds so do we see this today yes we do we see it across the board we see it with actual martial arts schools in the modern sense of a martial arts school and we it’s that’s being beat down a little bit right now right because because we have MMA we have jiu-jitsu we can actually test and you can’t just run around doing acrobatic kicks that aren’t actually functional yeah that magic one that you do yeah yeah or the Dimock where you’re going to like – I’m going to touch your neck and you’re going to fall to the ground yes so that stuff has been pretty pretty crushed by not only by MMA but also by the interwebs yeah the whole hill has fought against that remember that website I think it’s a lot boo-boo bullshit oh yeah yeah yeah legit cuz they just go through show everyone that’s full crap yeah yeah the bullshit oh guys they’ve been around for a long time – that websites been around for a long time boos I think the bullshit Oh calm yes and they show everyone that’s that’s full of crap right yeah hey if I settle my Chi’s aim my Chi and I can knock you out right and people actually paid money for that stuff yeah and it’s crazy how the guys who go to debunk it they’ll like you see actually one on one where the guys will go to the dojo and be like hey I’m not skeptic you know do your thing to me and knock me and the guy will be like okay and then they’ll they’ll follow through with it let well I mean everything he’ll Rogan and I were talking about that that situation that just happened in China where the Tai Chi guy went into an MMA guy and got obviously got destroyed yeah because it doesn’t work yeah and that’s nothing new this I don’t know and you know what I said on that I mean that kind of stuff is I think those kind of martial arts are supposed to be more like yoga you know about stretching it’s about movement it’s about proprioception it’s it’s fine to do that’s cool but it’s not going to stop somebody from doing a double leg on you like a stick something on from throwing a four punch combination at your head yeah yeah train guy who holds one arm and just beats you down with you yeah and then and then the other part of this is you get the guys that are out there you know talking about the mental mindset of the special ops and all that and it’s like they’re trying to sell magic yeah same thing anything the flamboyant this is what you need to do is like be tougher how’s that yeah yeah how about you give that one a crack but they want to sell the flamboyant busier flamboyant showmanship and and you know you can sell the the though you can sell the people’s weaknesses right it’s all about like the mystery yeah the masti yeah all the mystique you can stall the people’s weaknesses you know if you remember the old scene you might have to be old enough did you ever read soldier of fortune magazine you’re a kid no I know what that is yeah but when I was a kid you know I was interested in war yeah all soldier of fortune I get my hands on a copy I read it and there were key things in there you know devastating 14 moves that you learn and you will never lose a street fight and people would say yeah you know that’s cool I’m going to order this this the VHS tape mature it’ll have the solutions and you just you know if they are not applicable yeah that’s generally not ethical now of course if you teach someone some aggressive movements that they’re gonna do and they’re gonna memorize those movements and then they do it to a person that doesn’t know how to fight yeah and tree actually they what those movements can be effective I’m gonna punch you in the head 17 times you know you come up to me and say hey you got a problem that I punch you in that 17 times yeah with no warning like that that actually okay yeah where I put the person down and then I ran away that’s right it works but it didn’t it you know when somebody came up and squared off to me or we had a real legitimate situation it’s not going to work yeah your false sense of security is isn’t gonna help you out there you know so I think it’s very interesting that in 1450 you know yeah we’re dealing with this or what it knows now starting on fortune 52 1643 we’re dealing with the same stuff human nature doesn’t change it’s true all right going back to the book in regard to the warrior Knight that path involves constructing all sorts of weapons and understanding the various properties of weapons this is imperative for warriors failure to master weaponry and comprehend the specific advantages of each weapon would seem to indicate a lack of cultivation in a member of a warrior house I will illustrate the science of martial arts by likening it to the way of a carpenter now I think this is important because it’s telling you that no matter what your business is you’ve got to get in the game you’ve got to know the various tools of the trade whether that’s the business world whether that’s construction whether that’s no matter what you do you need to open your mind up don’t be scared in and study what it is in your craft and you are get these guys these young seal officers and they be embarrassed that they didn’t know something about a radio or they’d be embarrassed that they didn’t know something about a sniper weapon and I would just say look when you don’t know something you go up to the sniper and you say hey man can you get can you give me a familiarization on that weapon or you go up the radio and say hey can you teach me how to program this radio because I don’t know how to do it that’s what we’re talking about here instead of just ignoring it or pretending or trying to hide from it get out there and ask them and believe me the sniper and the radio man they don’t look down on you because you said to them can you show me how to do this they look at you and say aw cool he’s humble and he wants to learn I’m here let’s make it happen so now going back to this this idea of the of the carpenter as an example back to the book when sorting out timber for building a house that which is straight free from knots and of good appearance can be used for front pillars that which has some knots but it’s straight and strong can be used for rear pillars that which is somewhat weak it has no knots and looks good is variously used for door sills lintels doors and screens that which is knotted and crooked but nevertheless strong is used thoughtfully in consideration of the strength of the various members of the house then the house will last a long time even knotted crooked and weak timber can be made into scaffolding and later used for firewood now what I like about that is from a leadership perspective guess what that means that means you look at your team and you’re going to have some strong squared away looking individuals and squared away acting individuals they’re going to be part of your team and you can have some members your team that are not so squared away they got some knots in them and a little bit crooked and what you have to do is you have to learn how are you going to use them where you gonna put them they can still you might have someone that’s strong a little rough around the edges they’re gonna be a supporting pillar not the pillar that you’re gonna put out front which is the nice clean-cut look in the individual it was also sharp so as a leader you have to do that you have to get what you can out of all your out of all your pieces of wood I love the idea from a leadership perspective the idea of looking at it as a as being a carpenter because there’s a couple different things not only do you have to learn how to use these different tools of leadership so there’s all these different tools that you use in leadership there’s all these different ways of communicating with people and and how you interact with people and you have to learn all those different tools but then you have to learn that you need to use the tools differently on different human beings because they’re going to take a different reaction to them and then the different types of human beings actually have individual personalities so it’s exactly like woodworking in the fact that you’ve got not only do you have different types of wood but you also have different types of wood that has individual issues like if a piece of birch is a lot different than a piece of eBay eBay is hard hard wood eBay I think it has a burn rating that is higher or the same as concrete think about that the marketing usually thing in the water it sinks I got a deck made out of an eBay it’s awesome just it’s a very hard wood but you can’t use you have to use a different tool you have to use the tool differently then you would with a piece of pine which is very soft and that’s the way people are – that’s where human beings are you have to know how to use the tools and then you have to learn how to modulate the tools correctly with each individual piece of lumber yeah you see it all out in like team sports like in football for example you get a guy he don’t know he doesn’t know how to do anything you can’t teach him he’s I don’t know whatever but he has a hard head you know yeah he’s just down for the cause that’s it it’s like thanks seemingly useless you put him on special teams you put them on the kickoff are you gonna make him a wedge breaker there you are wrong best wedge breaker in the game yeah get some exactly back to the book speaking in terms of carpentry soldiers sharpen their own tools make various useful implements and keep them in their utility boxes obviously same correlations there back to book I’ve written this book in five Scrolls entitled Earth’s water fire wind and emptiness and this is the true science cannot be attained just by mastery of swordsmanship alone so you got to get more and I think it was on the first Tim Ferriss podcast I was on I think he asked me what was the most complicated mission that you did knows like hey the missions aren’t complicated was complicated is dealing with human because that’s the hard part that’s the hard part of leadership yes it dealing with shoot the machine gun I mean there’s some skill to it but it’s infinitely easier than trying to lead men in combat back to the book the way to do battle is the same whether it is a battle between one individual and another or a battle between one army and another you should observe reflectively with overall awareness of the large picture as well as precise attention to small details the large scale is easy to see the small scale is hard to see to be specific it is impossible to reverse the direction of a large group of people all at once while the small scale is hard to know because in the case of an individual there’s just one will involved and changes can be made quickly this should be given careful consideration so you can see a big group when they’re trying to turn you you can you can know then but with this one individually you’re not really understand sure what they’re thinking then he talks a lot about this he talks about a lot about the elevation and how you have to step back and look at things from different perspectives and also I’m gonna make this note right now he’s got these little lines at the end of so many of his paragraphs like this one this should be given careful consideration he says those kind of things a lot and I’m not gonna do all of them but I’m definitely gonna give enough to give the feeling of the book which is very it’s very instructional in the way it’s talking to you which I dig back to the book um this is interesting back to look unless you really understand others you can hardly attain your own self understanding that’s at the opposite of what we normally think we know I got to know myself first and then I can understand other people he’s saying you got to understand other people and then you then you get to understand yourself and I think that’s very useful because we should see ourselves in other people we should let other people say I know what they’re doing I I do that too yeah back to the book in the practice of every way of life and every kind of work there’s a state of mind called that of the deviant even if you strive diligently on your chosen path day after day if your heart is not in accord with it then even if you think you’re on a good path from the point of view of this straight and true this is not a genuine bath if you do not pursue a genuine path to its consummation then a little bit of crookedness in the mind will later turn into a major warp reflect on this mm-hmm right that’s great advice and you know what you know what that makes me think of is when people ask me which they ask me a lot about joining the military yeah you know I want to I want to join the military when I go in the SEAL Teams I want to support the country that’s awesome but you better make sure that you’re doing it because it’s a true path to your heart if you’re doing it for some other alternative reason it’s not it’s going to be a work that’ll show up later now doing four years at four-year hitch in the Marine Corps the Army in the Navy and the Air Force is going to be good for you and it’s not like it’s a light permanent lifetime thing and it’ll probably teach you a lot but if you’re going to do something you’ve got to remember that you sign that dotted line and you might be going to war yeah and if you have that if you’re not doing it for the right reasons you’re going to be you’re not going to be a happy person when you’re over in in the combat zone it’s not going to happen so stay true to your path and make sure that the path that you’re on is is something that you really want to do something you really want to believe in yeah or something you really believe in now musashi fought with two swords a longer sword and a short sword that was kind of his trademark inand it’s easy I think he’s credited with creating that form of fighting and both some other samurai carried two swords like a primary to secondary but he used two swords simultaneously which is pretty legit so back in the book the real thing is to practice the science wielding both swords the longsword in one hand and the sword short-sword in the other when your life is on the line you want to make use of all your tools no warrior should be willing to die with his swords at his side without having made use of his tools however when you hold something with both hands you cannot wield it freely both right and left my purpose is to get you used to wielding the longsword with one hand so know your tools practice with them here we go the longsword seems heavy and unwieldy to everyone at first but everything is like that when you first take it up a bow is hard to draw a halberd is hard to swing in any case when you become accustomed to each weapon you become stronger at the bow and you acquire the ability to wield the longsword so when you attain the power of the way it becomes easy to handle what’s that saying it’s a in practice and it’s also saying the same thing that one uncle Jake told young mark hey you’re not going to be good at this at first of course you can’t do pokes you haven’t practiced them of course you don’t know your timetables you haven’t practiced them and it’s the same thing in any job that you’re in you have to practice it it you’re not just born you’re not just born programmed you have to program your mind hmm work you have to do back to the book in my individual school one can win with the longsword and one can win with the short sword as well for this reason the precise size of the longsword is not fixed the way of mine school is the spirit of gaining victory by any means and what I like about this he talks about this more and I don’t know how much it might hit but he’s got an open mind even though he’s very direct about what he knows works he’s also saying hey look the sword got worried about the length of the sword I’m worried about what works and winning and achieving victory by any means necessary that’s an open mind in the martial arts of my individual school it is the same for one man as it is for 10 000 as far as paths are concerned and well before I go on past that this is why for me it’s very easy to make these correlations because I talk about all the time the similarities between jiu-jitsu which is a one-on-one match against another human being and being on the battlefield and the things that you’re doing are the same the combat principles don’t change you’re trying to flank people you’re not trying to attack the hardened targets you’ve got to know when to back off you’ve got to know when to attack you got to seize the moment all those things are the same so Musashi realize this obviously back to the book as far as paths are concerned there are Confucians Buddhists tea connoisseurs teachers of etiquette dancers and so on these things do not exist in the way of warriors but even if they are not your path if you have wide knowledge of the ways you encounter them and everything in any case as human beings it is essential for each of us to cultivate and polish our own individual path important and and again I get questions about life people want to make decisions about their life and the answer is look go out research but you need to cultivate your own path you need to figure out and you can do that you need to learn to educate and I certainly answer all kinds of questions about that but at the end of the day the person that’s signing the dotted line the person that’s going to you know drop out of college so they can join the military or drop out of there sometimes I’ll get hey you know I want to start I want to leave this job to start my own business right those are the kind of things the big decisions and you gotta you got to make that be responsible for that decision yeah that I can give you some perspective and my perspective is you know for those you’ve got to know if you’re in the military you better know that that’s truly what you want to do for leaving your job that you don’t like anymore because you want to start something new set things up set up an exit strategy plan for it suck up the job that you don’t like while you’re saving money while you’re getting a landing place ready and then slowly you know make your transition win it when the time is right yeah don’t just get frustrated one day quit yeah and then you’re sitting there with no income no way to get anything started then you’re desperate yeah any when you’re desperate things aren’t going to go well it’s not good to be desperate yeah and you hear that that romantic story where you know this guy did that you know it was part of his job so he just up and quit and landing god that’s pretty you know economists tough yeah and what’s that bias that you get what are the only people that you hear about are the ones that actually pull it off availability availability bias so that’s what happens we only hear about this guy right at quit his job and started this thing in his garage and now he’s a billionaire yeah yeah well but there’s a lot of people that never made it out the garage there and they ended up in you know a job that yeah more and worse yeah or went back the next week begging for their job back and they got a small demotion back to the book in distinguishing the advantages of the tools of warriors we find that whatever the weapon there’s a time and a situation in which is it it is appropriate absolutely listen to this you should not have any special fondness for a particular weapon or anything else for that matter okay too much is the same as not enough to entertain likes and dislikes is bad for both commanders and soldiers pragmatic thinking is essential I mean just just insert that open your brain and put that in there what’s so often we get the little likes and dislikes you know we’re you don’t want a pet peeve of – well the word pet that that bothers you and there’s nothing I would saw Charlie plum last this past week yeah and I was telling him about that one of the biggest things that I took away from sitting and talking to him with that whole idea that if you do something that annoys me it’s my fault yeah it’s my fault feel being annoyed no it’s my fault for being anointed I need to get fixed yeah so if I have a pet peeve that echo littlez’s pan around that’s not your fault that’s my fault I need to get over it yeah as long as the Pens not clicking pecking then it’s our problem right that’s but that’s so important and to to think about this we do we have in it we have we like sinks and you know what we generally like what we’re good at yeah right take about jiu-jitsu yeah what what do i what am i Donald so guilty of this I’m like um I submitted 14 people today khmer khmer khmer pek oh yeah right or geeky eating right I don’t open my brain up enough yeah guard pass one side oh yeah guard pass one side only that’s the week I got to break that yeah I got to get more I gotta get less fondness for a particular weapon that’s such good it’s because almost because it’s so hard that’s such good advice yeah also let me think about everything even like you know you probably have your favorite gun you ever favorite everything really I prefer the I’m Fergie however for no key I prefer this gun I prefer that you know yeah hey got to be careful of that yeah pragmatic thinking is essential now here we go back to the book rhythm is something that exists in everything but the rhythms of martial arts in particular are difficult to master without practice harmony and disharmony and rhythm occur in every walk of life it is imperative to distinguish carefully between the rhythms of flourishing and the rhythms of decline in every single thing the way to win in a battle according to military scientists to know the rhythms of specific of the specific opponents and use rhythms that your opponents do not expect producing formless rhythms from rhythms of wisdom and this is just so classic and you think about on the battlefield this is what maneuver warfare is right this is temple they talk about it in terms of tempo when Brian Stann was on he’s talking about maintaining that tempo and then what you need use you need to maintain the faster tempo then your enemy can maintain and when you can maintain that tempo or you disrupt the tempo or you disrupt their tempo that’s how you’re going to achieve victory obviously it’s the same thing in jujitsu I I’m keeping you know I’m pressing one side pressing one side pressing one side boom I disrupt I go the other side but I just passed your guard you know I break your tempo and even in fact ball or soccer that rich in soccer that change your pace you know you come down the field going at a certain speed then you speed up front of it and you change that tempo that’s how you that’s how you pass you know boxing too you know the whole idea of a counter punch dance that yeah what did Solow Solow read arrowheads really famous sayings it um it’s about being late you know so like someone basically out temple’s you are out or disrupts your pattern and then now you have to catch up around your late says when you’re late you muscle when your muscle your tire when you tire you die I might have missed one but I think that those looking those are pretty straightforward oh yeah what you remove it’s true when you get someone off tempo it’s when someone has me off tempo but are you chasing them yeah and hang on and things are happening you don’t know it yeah and if he did if he does a thing where he keeps the pace and he and you man he just it’s like he’s pulling ahead pulling ahead until you’re like until you die yeah here we go just straight breaking it down right here back to the book for people want to learn my military science there are rules for learning the art one think of what is right and true to practice and cultivate the science 3 become acquainted the arts for know the principles of the crafts five understand the harm and benefit in everything six learn to see everything accurately 7 become aware of what is not obvious 8 be careful even in small matters 9 do not do anything useless if we could if everyone could just do 9 not do anything useless yeah think about that yeah about how powerful that is web think how much useless stuff that we do and less useless it’s not helping us yeah that’s what we were talking about I don’t know maybe last sermon title a few weeks ago about distraction that’s really what it distracting excuses useless but stop those the other the other a couple of these understand the harm and benefit of everything learn to see everything accurately become aware of nob what is not obvious those to me are all about detachment you’ve got to be able to detach from what’s going on to be able to see things accurately you’ve got to be able to detach to be able to see the harm and benefit and things you’ve got to be able to detach to be able to see what’s not obvious and the more caught up you are in your head or in the chaos in the situation the more you’re going to miss those important factors right there back to the book first of all keep martial arts on your mind and work diligently in a straightforward manner then you can win with your hands and you can get feet people by seeing with your eyes furthermore when you refine your practice to the point where you can attain freedom of the whole body then you can overcome people by means of your body and since your mind is trained in this science you can also overcome people by means of mind when you reach this point how could you be defeated by others so he’s talking about you need to refine your practice to the point where you get freedom I think I might have said something along those lines right this way let’s freedom all day long you know all day long refine your practice until you attain freedom think about that practice until you get free yeah you don’t just expect freedom you don’t get freedom by acting free know you get freedom by discipline yeah so like jiu-jitsu for example right you know when you’re a white belt brand new they teach you the move here’s the move here’s step one step two step three you practice that enough times along with all the other moves now you’re just jumping in there and flying with a fly you know just going on almost automatic right off you’re just free to do whatever move at whatever time you are it’s the exact same thing on the battlefield if you drill drills and you become your team your platoon your squad becomes so fluid with them that they can adapt and they can change them because that’s what we’re really talking about they have the freedom to move they have every they know the rules so intuitively that to become just part of the way they act as humans it’s like when you have you ever been showing the move in jiu-jitsu or someone’s been showing a move on you right like let’s say you’re gonna you’re going to show the the the guillotine on me and so you you pull me over and you shock me down and as you shut me down I counter it like not in not it not on purpose because I know I’m just trying to show the movie I like automatically turn my hand grab your arm I know it’s like oh I can’t do that right now I can’t counter the move but that that’s not my that’s not my brain doing that yes peer instant right there instinct it’s almost like you have to consciously not if they consciously not do it and then after you constantly not do it five times the example you gotta like drill it three more times just to make sure you’re good health because you didn’t we here we go back to look it is by no means possible for me to write down this science precisely as I understand it in my heart so what that means to me is what I talk about a lot is that we look at different sources for the same information we want to know about human nature we want to know about leadership we want to know about war no one has the ability to just get it right so that’s why we come at it from different angles that’s what we do just like in jujitsu when you learn an armlock from Jeff Glover and you learn a lot mocking Dean Lister they’re gonna get you know Jeff Glover will give you 82 points of performance game Lister will give you 82 points of performance 73 of them are overlapping but there’s some 9 that are a little bit different and that’s little that’s where you make up and someone’s going to work you know some glover stuff is going to work a little bit better for me than it is for you but then some of these stuff’s gonna work better for you than me but then some of those were actually going to combine what both of them say and we’re going to end up instead of 82 points performance we end up with a hundred and sixteen and now our blocks a little bit better yeah this is deep go yeah so here we go pay attention the science of martial arts is not just a matter of reading these writings taking what is written here personally do not think you are reading or learning and do not make up an imitation taking the principles as if they were discovered from your own mind identify with them constantly and work on them carefully this is so critical and it’s like I say on the podcast for a while at the end of the podcast I was saying don’t just listen do because just listening doesn’t help you you have to go more than listen he’s saying you have to do more than just read and it’s interesting and we get people that are really into either podcast that read the book and I talk to them you know we have clients that brought us on to help their company and they love extreme ownership and they are they feel like they’re fully on board and understand the principles and all that and then you get in there and you start talking to them about what they’re doing and they’re missing them yeah and it’s because they don’t attach they look they’re looking out at everyone else they’re not they’re not looking at themselves and it’s it’s hard because they read them right they listen they don’t know what you do they know it plenty they’ve got to do it yeah so that’s hard that’s the catchment comes it becomes important there are two – did that’s from yourself and actually think about what you’re doing is very hard and without doing just that you’ll be successful and I like how he says you take these ideas and make them like as if they were discovered in your own brain how do you apply them to your life that’s one of the things that’s so good about the muster is because with the interaction it’s it can be hard for people to birth these ideas from their own mind like to take the seed that comes from extreme ownership or comes from the podcast to take that seed and and and plan it and have it grow it can be hard to do that they look at the seed they hold the seed as sacred yeah right but they’re not putting it in there and letting it grow and watering it when you come to the muster what’s cool about it is you’re you get you get to ask the question and say hey what’s going on with this explain us to me and then we get to give our perspective and now we make a connection now that seed gets a little little water on it fertilizer it starts to grow and and also we you get pulled out of your own head because when you hear three other people’s questions that are similar to what you’re doing and then but again you can’t just listen to someone else’s question to go oh I see the answer that you have to say wait a second what how does that answer apply to me hmm too big deal yep back to look in the science of martial arts the state of oh man this is there we go in the science of martial arts the state of mind should remain the same as normal in ordinary circumstances as well as when practicing martial arts let there be no change at all with the mind open and direct neither tense nor lacks centering the mind so that there is no imbalance calmly relax your mind and savor this moment of ease thoroughly so that the relaxation does not stop its relaxation even for an instant so you want to remain calm so I used to come and put myself on report here I used to play this game with my kids sure I would take the the inside of wrapping paper you get that sword it’s like a cardboard sword yeah it’s like a cutting board tube it’s like a giant toilet tissue too right yes and I used to play this game with my kids it was called normal face yeah and I would line them up and you had to keep your face totally normal no expression it’s not a smile my life if you weren’t didn’t have a normal face you’ll get cracked with the tube as almost gives the line up and they would just get the most blank expression on their face and I would you know I’d do something to try and make them laugh or try and make them startled get scared what’s that what’s that word when you flinch I try and make a point like I might swing I’m in a flinch now oh please don’t even if it looks like I was going to crack you right and now you fridge now you get a crack head you flick and it was there was a lot of fun because kids because once you crack you know one kid then the other two kids laughter would line them up yeah good but my goal in that besides to have fun with the family you know cuz head trauma and all that can be very fun for the family sitting there’s no head trauma happen but it was fun to play and the kids would laugh but also get them to control their emotions right and you get them to not be so readable to everyone get them to control their emotions get them to relax so you got to play normal face with your kids sometimes good jacques versioned it’s good holidays when you when you see a kid in a frustrating situation and they got normal face you know you’re saying yeah yeah good even when you see an adult in that situation yeah you see the pressure going on and they got the normal face just looking at okay yeah okay oh you’re screaming and yelling cool normal face over here yeah who do you guys want to follow normal face guy or freaked out guy over there no not freaked out guy so yeah child services you know you can come and get me but that’s what those two things are kind of for ya the way they’re made to crack your kids in the head with them and have fun some kind of cracking device yeah yeah well they’re just so perfect ya know you know it’s more perfect in them is you can get the foam you can get the foam that you use them to cover hot pipes in your house yeah and it’s just little foam to this those things are the best because you I could literally hit you as hard as I possibly could and it doesn’t even hurt at all but it makes a cool noise if the eyesores with those that they just put a little PVC PVC pipe at the end of it but not the whole thing because that PVC by yeah yeah as can i that doesn’t have not kind of basic but that’s that’s injuries yes but you just put enough of that so you have a handle so just a hand and then you have this little pete that foam and you can my wife the first time she saw us doing it my wife freaked out I’m in there I’m whaling on my kids because you’re doing full Barbarian like overhead smashes with these swords as hard as you possibly can yeah and it doesn’t hurt at all at all those are good too cuz it does make a little crack noise yeah they’re fully effect yeah does a flimsy though no that’s the thing they’re surprisingly they’re not flimsy they were sink wising we ridge it that’s why they’re so effective for the normal face game that it X norm ax face advanced yeah you don’t have that many wrapping paper tubes so I’m like okay we need an alternate here when you do alternative yeah we need to keep this going yeah go to the basin yeah just like coming not with Home Depot or bottom those doing a project at my house and then I had that leftover and of course I’m looking at it tube I’m thinking swords like a normal face let’s get it on then I’ve discovered a perfect a perfect play weapon there you go boom back to the book once you have sharpened your intellect to the point where you can see wherever in the world is true or not where you can tell whatever is good or bad and when you were experienced in various fields and are capable of being boov are incapable of being fooled at all by people the world then your mind will become imbued with the knowledge and wisdom of the art of war isn’t that interesting did you hear about how you get infused with the knowledge of the art of war it’s by understanding people that’s how you get there that’s how you get there back to books there is something special about the knowledge of the art of war it is imperative to master the principles of the art of war and learn to be unmoved in mind even in the heat of battle normal face generally speaking it is essential to make your ordinary bearing the bearing you use in martial arts and make the bearing you use in martial arts your ordinary bearing this should be given careful consideration so your normal you should be normal all the time that’s how you should be whether you’re fighting whether you’re in combat or whether you’re a dinner keep it ordinary keep it normal he’s talking here about the focus of the eyes a specialty of martial arts is to see that which is far away closely and to see that which is nearby from a distance um you’ve got to have that perspective that’s why you don’t get drawn into like when you’re when your platoons got a mission you don’t get in the planning with them because then you you’ll be so close that you can’t see what it looks like from far away well in martial arts it is important to be aware of opponents swords and yet not look at the opponent’s swords at all this takes work this matter of focusing the eyes is the same in both small and large-scale military science it is essential to see both sides without moving the eyeballs so you’ve got to work that peripheral vision again Officer Candidate School you can’t look at your food we didn’t know why they made us do that we thought it was just torture you can look at your food while you’re eating you got to look straight ahead so why would they make you do that so you improve your peripheral vision you cannot look at your food try it sometime yeah you have to develop your peripheral vision and this idea of both large and small scale military science being able to see that which is far away closely and that which is close from a distance that’s detachment you’re embroiled in that thing that’s close to you you gotta detach from it so you can see what it looks like and the thing that’s far away you’ve got to get into it you ever hear two people debating or something not professional debaters or nothing but they’re arguing a point you know one guy’s point versus the other guy’s point and with debate a lot of time comes interruption you know like you’re saying sorry I interrupt you right and then every once in while you’ll notice one person say hey can I finish you know you keep interrupting me another guy might say well I’m just saying you can end slowly that debate of the two important issues get put push to the side actually and the debate becomes whether or not they justified or justice justifiably interrupted the other person so it’s now about the interruption that’s like you know you say don’t focus in on these little details that come come about in a in a big situation yeah well what’s really crazy they have news programs I’ll see you like a clip of a news program and it’s basically three or four panelists all talking at the same time yeah it’s the most ridiculous thing ever yes that’s another thing I think was Joe Robbins was saying you know we were talking about podcasts themselves yeah he was saying the news people need to learn from podcasts yeah that you don’t need to have people on for four minutes three people four people five person panel they’re all talking at the same time they’re all looking to get that big zinger you know point across that they pre-planned and then they try and drop it it just garbage is garbage listen to it listen to a two and a half hour podcast about a subject so you can hear people’s actual knowledgeable and thoughtful comments about it that to me makes a lot more sense yeah even on the four minute deals where there’s four five people on there even if they don’t interrupt each other talk over each other like one person can talk for what I’m in it although it’s weird out of going you know I’ve done a decent amount of television interviews and it’s even when you’re in it it’s even shorter than it seems like you’re watching it as you know you have you just have to say whatever it is you’re gonna say just got to say it in one maybe two maybe three sentences yeah yeah and that’s how they get you to like if there’s little if it’s like a sighted issue you know you say the law and there’s so many details and nuance to it you know but man I gotta get my mic or point across meanwhile that’s all this nuanced do you think that the news companies are doing that because people’s attention spans have gotten so short that they just think well that’s the best way we can do this to just put on hey we put them on there for four minutes if someone doesn’t like this subject or got someone else coming on and you know in four minutes later after the commercial break yeah maybe I think it’s a lot of time has to do the show is just a certain but I think I think that as one of their gender I think they know attention spans are short but I also think that attention spans have been so coddled now that people actually want the long format that’s why I think podcasts in general yeah are doing really well because people don’t people want to get engaged and listen to an actual opinion yeah or or not even an opinion but facts or yeah it’s an opinion or facts I want to listen to a full fault right also a fully encompass fought about something yeah not one-liners zinger hey I got you yeah boring okay I can’t watch it anymore yeah sometimes when you’re watching surfing sure you want to see you guys read you know for a second or two or whatever but sometimes you just want to sit back and watch the lead that’s true I guess yeah all day well it is true that you if you watch a surf movie of the better surf movies they have you know they show the guys in the morning they’re getting in the car you’re kind of with them right as opposed to just boom it hit you yeah get the lip it the lip it let get out if I don’t get back like those are those are cool you know but what do you if you want to I and I think a lot of people they want to sit down they want to see these guys shaping boards sure you know morning of the earth are shaping boards they’re watch your shaping boards and then they’re going out and surfing the board that they shaped in the morning they shape it go out to go out surfer come back adjust the fin make a little let’s shave the thin down that’s that’s pretty cool to watch yeah critical to watch people do 360s and 540’s yeah it’s cool but I want something a little bit more developed yeah that’s actually the key right there something develop do you know you can’t just like you can’t watch a shape someone doing the same shape for a long time you wanna see the full developed thought like how you put it yes it was more sure there was that sure yeah yes that show without a TV show now is movie okay it was a movie then there was a TV show got better buddy there is no no sir yeah yeah uses research a surf tank or whatever and yeah there’s only win Rick King goes to North Shore Oahu why you know learns to surf all over again technically in a blaze the culture all this stuff you know not as accurate as maybe it could have been but a fun one it’s nonetheless a lot those cue that one up I think my son watches that from they get all the funny lines out of the em and turtle dope I’ll take your word for the matter all right back to the book in wielding the longsword oh this is good and wielding along swords the thumb and forefinger grip lightly the middle finger grips neither tight mean or loosely while the fourth and little fingers grip tightly there should be no slackness in the hand the longsword should be taken up with the thought that it is something for killing opponents let there be no change in your grip even when slashing opponents make your grip such that your hand does not flinch when you strike an opponent’s sword block it or pin it down your thumb and forefinger alone should change somewhat but in any case you should grip your sword with the thought of killing your grip when cutting something to test your blade and your grip when slashing in combat should be no different gripping the sword as you would to kill a man generally speaking fixation and binding are to be avoided in both the sword and the hand fixation is the way to death fluidity is the way to life this is something that should be well understood so not only you have normal face and normal bearing your grips got to remain the same no matter what you train how you fight you’re just maintaining the same grip and then this idea of fixing and binding and being stationary and stagnant is the way to death and being fluid and open in the mind and in the way you present and the way you fight that’s the way to life the keelhauling Tim Kennedy mentioned dry fire you know kind of thing deal right so like you’re pulling the trigger the same way or whether or not there’s going to be you know recoil in that way yeah anyway and actually when you’re shooting they’ll do this when they’re training us to shoot we’ll they’ll put a dummy around in our magazine that is not and so then they can see if you made some reaction predicting or awaiting the kick of the gun that’s what throws your rounds off so I put a dummy round in there and I’ll be watching you click click click click boom boom boom boom boom and then click you jerk your trigger and everyone knows that you just made a mistake and they can see it and that’s hard yeah it is it is good at that to be good at that one oh now this is interesting he goes through what he calls the five kinds of guard and I looked at this guard is basically the way you kind of position yourself and he talks about the different types of guard that there are the first technique the the second the third the fourth the fifth is the different techniques and they’re all different positions that you hold the sword and where you prepare for your attack and when he gets to the philosophical part of it though on the teaching of having a position without a position having a position without a position or a guard without a guard means that the longsword is not supposed to be kept in a fixed position nevertheless since there are five ways of placing the sword the guard positions must follow along where you hold your sword depends on your relationship to the opponent depends on the place and must conform to the situation wherever you hold it the idea is to hold it so that it will be easy to kill the opponent sometimes the upper guard position is lowered a bit so that it may becomes the middle position while the middle guard position may be elevated a bit depending on the advantage thereof so that it becomes the upper position at times the lower guard position is also raised a bit to become the middle position the two the two-sided guard positions may be moved somewhat toward the center depending on where you are standing visa vie your opponent resulting in either the middle or the lower guard position in this way the principle is to have a guard position without a position first of all when you take up the sword in any case the idea is to kill the opponent even though you may catch hit or block an opponent slashing sword or tie it up or obstruct it all of these moves are opportunities for cutting down the opponent so he’s not trapped in this rigid mindset that this is what I have to do he’s open-minded he’s flexible now here we go this must be understood if you think of catching think of hitting think of blocking think of tying up or think of obstructing you will thereby become unable to make the kill it is crucial to think of everything as an opportunity to kill this should be given careful consideration so they have here if you’re thinking defensively that’s what you’re thinking about when you actually need to be thinking about being offensive even when you’re defending you need to be thinking about being offensive back to the book in large-scale military science the array of troops the raying of troops is also a matter of positioning every instance thereof is an opportunity to win in war fixation is bad this should be worked out federally striking down an opponent in a single beat among the rhythms used to strike an opponent there is what is called a single beat finding a position where you can reach the opponent realizing when the opponent has not yet determined what to do you strike directly as fast as possible without moving your body or fixing your attention the stroke with which you strike an opponent before he is thought of whether to pull back parry or strike is called a single deep so that’s you you can see that the opponent’s not quite prepared they’re kind of indecisive you can see it boom be decisive make something happen to go for the kill the rhythm of the second spring the rhythm of the second spring is when you’re about to strike and the opponent quickly pulls back or parries you feint to blow and then strike the opponent as he relaxes after tensing this is the stroke of the second spring so again we see these all the time and in jiu-jitsu we see it in everything the sticky body means getting inside and sticking fast to an opponent when you get inside the opponent’s defenses you stick tight with your head body and legs the average person’s the average person gets his head and legs in quickly but the body shrinks back sticking to an opponent means that you stick so close that there are no gaps between your bodies this should be investigated carefully and what’s really interesting about this and of course these are both two different languages being translated but when the Chechens fought the Russians in Chechnya one of the things that the Chechens did was they called this this sticky they stuck to the Russians so the Russians had air support the Russians have artillery and the only way to negate that or mitigate it for the Chechens was to get so close to the Russians that they couldn’t use their owner superior airpower and it’s the same thing with jiu-jitsu I mean obviously a grappler is going to get close so that they can avoid the strikes of a striker yeah doesn’t matter a stand against many opponents discerning the order in which opponents attack deal with those who press forward first keeping an eye on the whole picture determining the stands from which opponents launch their attack swinging both swords at the same time without mutual interference interference it is wrong to wait prioritize and execute got multiple people coming after you or you’re being a total attacked on multiple fronts each prioritize and execute advantage in dueling means understanding how to win using the longsword according to the laws of martial arts this cannot be written down in detail one must realize how to win by practice study carefully so again you’re not going to get it just by reading you’re not going to get it just by listening you got to do it you’ve got to practice it synching unhurried li understanding that it is the duty of warriors to practice this science determine that today you will overcome yourself of the day before tomorrow you will win over those of lesser skill and later you’ll win over those of greater skill practice this is something that requires thorough examination with a thousand days of practice for training and 10 000 days of practice for refinement get it on as far as my military science is concerned I have discerned the principles of living and dying through numerous duels in which I set my life on the line learning the science of the sword getting to know the strengths and weaknesses of opponents sword blows comprehending the uses of blade and ridge of the sword and practicing how to kill opponents in the course of doing this little sissy things never even occurred to me especially when one is in full combat gear one does not think of small things I thought that might be worth noting yes don’t be thinking about the little sissy things now he’s talking about here the physical situation meaning what’s going on in discerning the lay of the physical situation there is what is known as positioning yourself with the Sun at your back this also applies indoors so general ideas you want to make sure that you put the Sun behind you so that it’s hard to see you now what you have to be careful today live real military scenarios you got to be careful if you’re not silhouetting yourself so at nighttime you get on a Ridgeline or you get light behind you can be easier to you and what’s the bright blinding light and then it becomes efficient so there’s a big difference between a bright blinding light and silhouetting yourself so be careful with that back to book in order to look down on the enemy understand that you should take your stand on the highest ground even if it’s only slightly elevated take the high ground or the high ground is going to take you 16:43 same same thing that I was teaching in 2009 Kate diagram when you get opponents to an obstacle in order to prevent them from observing the situation press your attack without let-up so they cannot look around again you get someone on the ropes kind of back ya gotta get them you know what I’m saying when they’re on the ropes when they’re starting to fade a little bit you’re probably starting to fade a little bit too right think about it if you and I are in a grappling match or we’re going hard when I see you getting tired I’m probably getting tired – mm-hmm not time for me to rest just a lot of people they see you get a little tired I say how cool I can take a little breather now yeah wrong answer less of my effort now yeah wrong answer it requires more effort yeah I’m going to finish you off I’m gonna get the kill when you want to attack you remain calm and quiet then get the jump on your opponent by attacking suddenly and quickly you can preempt by being outwardly powerful unswept while inwardly leaving reserves you can also get the jump by stealing your mind to the utmost accelerating your pace a bit and making a violent attack the instant you get up close to the opponent in case the opponent attacks swiftly you attack calmly yet powerfully when the opponent gets close tighten your bearing with absolute resolve and when the opponent shows signs of slacking overcome him with force immediately then again when an opponent attacks calmly and quietly accelerate your own attacks lightly with your body lightly buoyant when the opponent gets close clash once and then adapting to his condition overcome him forcefully so this is what these are and the what’s important about these is that understanding what’s happening before you enter the situation so let me give you an example as you hear this all the time in MMA there’s certain MMA fighters that come out of the gate blazing and you hear all the time oh this guy he knows he’s got a weather the storm yeah so that’s exactly what oh you’re gonna attack me I’m gonna remain calm you’re going going all-out going crazy getting nuts even this and what am i doing I’m just going to remain calm just going to take the hits I’m going to defend I’m gonna let you and I’m going to do with the resolve just going to be calm normal face boom we’re good and then you’re gonna wear yourself out then I’m gonna attack you as opposed to if you come out you’re all nonchalant I might stop my comment you hard to overcome you while you’re not mentally prepared for the chaos and I’m going to bring to you yeah in hopes that you can’t whether the storm right right whenever opponents try and attack you let them go ahead and do anything that is useless while preventing them from doing anything that is useful this is essential to military science that doesn’t even need explanation except for the fact that you see people all the time that the enemies or the competitors doing something that they don’t like it bothers them so they make effort to stop it and there’s a wasting their effort yeah these actually be encouraging people to waste their resources and time yeah knowing the state of affairs in large-scale military science knowing the state of affairs means discerning the flourishing and declining of opponents discerning the intentions of adversary troops and perceiving their condition clearly seeing the state of affairs determining how to deploy your own truth so as to gain certain victory by the principles of military science and doing battle with the knowledge of what lies ahead also in individual martial arts you determine your opponent’s traditions observe the personal character of adversaries find out people’s strengths and weaknesses maneuvering ways contrary to opponent’s expectations determine the opponent’s highs and lows ascertain rhythms in-between make the first move this is essential so that’s leadership right there dealing with other people know their character back to book if your own power of insight is strong the state of affairs of everything will be visible to you once you have attained complete independent mastery of martial arts you’ll be able to figure out the minds of opponents and thus find many ways to win this demands work know what’s happening you know I like the fact that he’s talking about understanding your opponent’s traditions understanding their cultures what he’s talking about you got to understand what your opponent’s culture is and an individual level and on a social level all of it this integration is something that happens to everything when a house crumbles a person crumbles or an adversary crumbles they fall apart by getting out of rhythm with the times in large-scale military science it is also essential to find the rhythm of opponents as they come apart and pursue them so as to not let opening slip by if you miss the timing of vulnerable moments there is a likelihood of counter-attack in individual martial arts it also happens that an adversary will get out of rhythm in combat and start to fall apart if you let such a chance get by you the adversary will recover and forge you it is essential to follow up firmly on any loss of poise on the part of an opponent to prevent him from recovering again you see this name that may all-time get that guy on the ropes get that guy dazed you got to get on him finish him and you and I talked tired people get in MMA you’ll see somebody really really rocked and losing their bearings and the other guy won’t even be able to pursue him because he’s tired or overly cautious and then you know what helps you get you get the guy that goes nuts and gasses himself out trying to finish a guy so hard and the guy just hangs on ties them up or whatever and then then also in the disabled sir yeah and that typically what that is when they punch themself out that they come when they get too excited like they don’t maintain the normal thing I’m not a normal face yeah she’s there and there’s and apparently you know I’m listening to this and there is a difference between normal face and then being aggressive you know in attacks you know like being offensive or whatever so that’s a more you can have normal face while you’re being aggressive that’s what everybody the unaggressive doesn’t mean you’re getting all you’re losing your composure rather aggressively attacking while maintaining composure yeah for sure yeah so a lot of times in MMA where you see a guy you know boom you got the other guy on the ropes and he maintains you can you know guy getting too excited you know he risks punching himself out if he doesn’t connect or if you you know if the guy just doesn’t worry communicating occasionally guy gets just super sloppy and gets yeah exactly right because that is out of desperation or you know he was seen that one who was I think the guy’s name is Scott who was it Tim Lytle maybe what’s it done anyway I forget um so he gets hit in the liver I think and it buckled him and he’s you can tell all the fights over for this guy and the other guy comes running in haymaker style you know like sloppy but super aggressive and he sneaks one in as the guys get knocked him out and it looked like the fight was over for that he lost his composure yeah and maintain normal face no not at all he was way too excited and he got sloppy too got excited face yes exactly back to the book becoming the opponent means you should put yourself in an opponent’s place and think from the opponent’s point of view clearly letting go for hands is when you and an opponent are in a deadlock and no progress is being made in the fight it means that when you think you’re going to get into a deadlock you stop right away and seize victory by taking advantage of a different approach in large-scale military science as well if there is total deadlock and no progress is being made there will be a loss of personnel it is essential to stop right away and seize victory by taking advantage of a tactic unsuspected by the enemy in individual martial arts also if you think you are getting into a deadlock then it is essential to immediately change your approach ascertains the opponent state and determine how to win by means of a very different tactic this is something you see a lot in the EUC and everything in everything you see it in war you see it in jiu-jitsu you see the fighting you see it in business people they get to a position and there’s some comfort there’s some level of comfort if you and I lock up and you’re my half guard and you’re not really going anywhere and I’m and I and and I’m not going anywhere you’re not going anywhere there’s a level of comfort there yeah like why should I take rescuing something else all right and say we don’t mind being dead lock now what’s important about this is he’s saying as soon as you sense it that’s got to be the hard part as soon as you sense there’s a deadlock that’s when you should make the change because the longer I wait the longer the more settled it becomes in the harder it is to break out of that deadlock if movement is so critical mental physical movement is so critical that’s why when something go is going bad like let’s say you’re in a public place and something’s going bad a terrorist comes in and starts screaming shooting you move immediately you get your instinct you’ve got to be move immediately what you don’t want to do is freeze stop home which is a very human instinct right it’s a very human instinct to freeze and just take cover now there’s shooting going on depending on the kind of shooting if there’s heavy machine gun fire but like that yes you have to get to get down because it’s bullets flying all over the place if the bullets are slowly going bop-bop-bop that means someone’s taking aim and shooting so if you stay still you’re gonna get shot if you hear that steady pace you go you go you zig zag you take cover you then you bound to another position you move as fast as you can yeah that quick movement when you before the deadlock settles in is when you want to do when someone’s about to in a in a situation like a physical confrontation don’t let it get there make a move before it gets there yeah which you know hopefully means you leave you walk away you know before the guy bow is up to you and starts getting in your face you’re already gone didn’t even let it get there because now we’re going to a situation where it’s we’re gonna have to make something happen yeah and that’s not good right it’s not going to be good sure oh I kicked it I kick this guy’s ass out in the street that’s cool and what’s the other 14 alternatives you got stabbed you got arrested you got you broke his neck you’re in prison there’s all kinds of bad ones it’s like one good out of four team which is a I put the guy to sleep and even that when we getting out of that he bled on you yeah and we don’t know what kind of disease this guy has yeah you know we we’ve talked about that before but the bottom line is try and be aware of when things are about to get stagnant if you can change them then do it then yeah it’s all it ultimately comes down to being ready yeah yeah yeah and not necessarily ready for anything specific it just you know one thing when you get caught off guard psycho you got your mind have to explore all these options and all this time you know if you this if you just been aware yeah awareness goes so far like I did that video on on real martial arts and and you know I started off I said hey the best form of self-defense is the gun but if you and here because think about it if you have somebody that truly is in a high threat area you know you take a woman or an older person that doesn’t have great physical strength and they’re in a high threat area to tell them that you know learning jujitsu is going to be the best thing for them is wrong right the best thing for them is to in high threat area is to have a weapon a a gun that is the best thing to have that truly will neutralize targets so but that but what I didn’t mention in that video which I should have is yes the first thing is mental awareness the first thing is like oh yeah I’m aware of what’s happening I’m aware that I’m going into a high threat area I’m gonna go to another I’m gonna drive around that area I see bad things going on on my side the street I’m gonna walk across the street and avoid it early enough that I don’t look like a victim because if you see if if a perpetrator sees you or a predator sees that you’re avoiding them then they think oh that’s the person scared does target for me yes yeah they’re weak that’s why you got to be aware so yes your honor press it right and when you walk into a building you walk into a public place you should be looking around where the exits where is their cover how fast can I get out of here yeah that’s what you should be doing and and if you have that predetermined that it’s not even like it takes that much effort you just have to do it you have to say oh I’m going into a high school graduation and I’m gonna sit in the spot where I’m close to the exit in this case somebody goes crazy because when is someone gonna go crazy we don’t know yeah but they do and so if you’re close to the exit you can get out of there quickly or you can at least flank the perpetrator and get rounds on them before anything really bad happens yep and you just compare that to the alternative of not knowing right or you know you go in you go oh this is a good seat I’m able to see the graduation from this middle spot that has no cover and concealment anywhere around it and when something goes sideways I’m going to be one of the persons trapped in the mob trying to get out of this two doors while someone’s shooting a machine gun not good so be aware of your surroundings is number one and then when you see that thing happening act quickly you know you see something shady going on move towards that exit movement is so key and being mentally prepared to make the movement having that be a quick reaction instead of a delayed reaction and planning your situations that you’re in a spot where you can move quickly it’s critical in large-scale military science when you cannot discern the enemy state you pretend to make a powerful attack and see what they do that’s pretty cool right I don’t know what the first person is not doing anything I can’t tell what they’re gonna do make a little attack on them see how she has to how they react to it and in jiu-jitsu by the way it’s gotta be a real attack yeah you can’t fake an attack and you did to another person’s weak you have I mean like not trained yeah nervous or so yeah you you need to give them a real attack if I say oh I’m gonna pretend to sweep echo so I can expose his arm if I pretend to sweep you you won’t even defend it you don’t have to get to pretend you have to defend against pretend eggs I’ve actually got to try and sweep you that will expose your arm because you have to defend the sweep so your attacks I don’t I don’t like to use the word pretend there because if you’re pretending well even if you’re even on the battlefield I’m not gonna pretend to flank you I’m gonna flank you yeah I’m gonna flank you and if you don’t defend it I’m gonna win if you defend it cool now I can’t you from the other side yes feel like on the movies war movies right they they was it because Rambo I don’t know but you know how they have the the girl you know walks that’s that’s the the decoy so obvious the girls that would be in a war zone for sure right you gotta you got to know that yeah watch out for that really good-looking girl it look at that did you know the battlefield yeah back to look if you demonstrate strongly to opponents oh this is good if you demonstrate strongly to opponents how you control the advantage they will change their minds inhibited by this strength so if I’m dominating you on the jutsu mat and I’m just holding you cross-eyed holding you across side holding you across side I’ve given away what I do to control you so now next time you’re not going to let me get across side you’re going to panic so or you’re going to knock on panic or you’re going to really defend that or this harder and you’re going to sacrifice the cross line maybe you give up your back because you realize a my back attacks aren’t as good and then now I’m not getting where I want to be so if you demonstrate you got to be careful you can’t be so dominant in what you’re doing that everyone sees it or that your opponent Caesar that your competitor sees what you’re doing and then they can counter it if you if you keep it somewhat obscured by by you know smoke and mirrors so that they can’t tell exactly how you’re dominating that’s a positive thing that’s one of the drawbacks of having the same training partner you know cuz you like I can train a Greg so much and that we just sit in this weird stalemated position so much of the time too and it’s almost like it’s subconscious at the end course where you’re not worried about certain things now well this goes back what you need to do within there is you need to avoid that position before you get to it yeah right as you get unique oh no we’re not going there yeah then back to the book there is infection in everything even sleepiness can be infectious and yawning can be infectious there’s even infection of a time in large-scale military science when adversaries are excited and if evidently are in a hurry to act you behave as though you are the unphased giving the appearance of being thoroughly relaxed and at ease do this and the adversaries themselves are influenced by this mood becoming less enthusiastic when you think your opponents have caught that mood you empty your own mind and act quickly and firmly thus gaining the winning advantage in martial arts as well it is essential to be relaxed in body and mind noticed a moment and opponent slackens and quickly take the initiative to win now the reason I wanted to point that one out is it is for especially for you know people in police officers bouncers that’s the de-escalation right someone’s getting all excited if you get excited back at them and you’re just escalating the situation act calm calm men down don’t let them they want you to get riled up like that drunk guy that makes that that domestic violence situations they want you may want to fight they want to lash out if you give it to them they’re going to take it in a large in large-scale military science it is essential to cause upset it is critical to attack resolutely where enemies are not expecting it then while their minds are unsettled use this to your advantage to take the initiative and win there’s right in everything this means being frightened by the unexpected in individual martial arts you can threaten by means of your body you can threaten by means of your sword you can threat by means of your force what is essential is to suddenly make a move totally unexpected by the opponent pick up on the advantage of the fright and seize victory right then and there this must be worked out thoroughly this is whenever I catch deed whenever I catch Dean I catch him only by surprise like I kick if he knows what I’m doing he stops the only times I catch him is by surprise and any you know he’ll say oh man I did not expect an armlock there for a while ago you know I was c’mere c’mere c’mere clear cracker and he gets so good at defending c’mere I wasn’t hitting it in one day boom threw in our market I did that to you a couple right you were you said the exact same thing yeah dude let’s defend in the heck out that Chimaera and then BOOM yeah straight arm lock yeah that’s and what got you is just surprised surprised because your defense is solid on what you see mMmmm it’s those things that you don’t see yeah that which you cannot defend and let’s yeah I mean like especially when you get advanced that is the whole of jujitsu right there yeah say no that’s the provo like there’s times were Dean I know exactly what he’s going to do and he’s doing it with such methodical perfection that I did not stop it yeah and that is so bothered hold event even that kind of is totally splitting hairs but even that in a way he might have little micro surprises you know that established the position yes getting to the position he definitely does that yeah but once he’s in a position and I know AJ matter fact they’ll be telling me they’ll be telling me well you know what’s coming to me I wish you could stop this it’s actually sad that you can if we talking so much smack to me which obviously is even more frustrating but that’s because he’s better than me education surprised me he’s just got the skills yeah and he knows he does know he knows how to do those movements with such authority and precision that you’re just you’re just in trouble yeah you know he does this one should be called it like the arresting officer the he’ll start talking me like he says like he’s a cop and he’ll be going insane sir just calm down just calm down sir and he’s got me face down like I’m getting arrested sitting and he does that weird career week and he’s you know he just he says he’ll say look at the wall over there and I’m trying not to look where you who like force my face yeah it’s it’s humiliating that’s why when either one of us are we’re at a point in the digits or now where if either one of us get in our dominant position yeah the other person we are going to make them suffer immensely and he’s got more dominant you know if I get a cross-eyed on him he’s in trouble and if I get him on all fours he’s in trouble he I’m gonna make him suffer in both those positions straight up I might not submit him but he’s gonna suffer and he’s got those two positions the same thing like if he’s a crossed out of me or he’s a farm on all fours he’ll make me suffer but also he has the mount if he mounts me I suffer yeah but brutally because I’m looking at him which is even more horrible you know that he will literally drip sweat into my eyes purposely yeah yeah you know if he’s in the mount he’ll sit there and aim sweat drop coming off his nose and hit me in the eye said that and tell me you know Chinese water torture like as soon as your mom is a Chinese water if he’s sweating if we’re already warmed Chinese water torture and I’ve seen Dean communicate all obviously I was it da I’m gonna kill you I’m gonna kill you I’m gonna kill you enjoy this and when I get him that’s what makes the jujitsu so fun the game within the game yeah back to the book flustering opponents means acting in such a way as to prevent them from having a steady mind in large-scale or in large-scale military science this means that you assess adversaries minds on the battlefield and use the power of your knowledge of the art of war to manipulate their attention making them think confusing thoughts about what you’re going to do it means finding a rhythm that will flush your adversaries accurately discerning where you can win in individual martial arts as well you try various maneuvers according to the opportunity of the moment making the opponent think you are now going to do this now that now something else until you find the opponent starting to get flustered and thus you win at will this is the essence of battle it should be studied carefully so clearly making fluster in your opponent on the battlefield in business wherever you are in conversations you’re trying to get someone sauce from France from obviously in jiu-jitsu if you start getting flustered you’re doing this in the context of large-scale combat mixing means that when two groups are facing off and your opponents are strong you attack one of the opponent’s flanks as if to mix with them then when you see the opponent’s crumble you leave off an attack again where they are strong flanking always mountain and sea means that is bad to do the same thing over and over again you may have to repeat something once but it should not be done a third time when you try something on an opponent if it does not work the first time you will not get any benefit out of rushing to do it again change your tactics abruptly doing something completely different if that still does not work then try something else thus the science of martial arts involves the presence of mind to act and see where the enemy is like a mountain and act as a mountain when the enemy is like a sea this requires careful reflection so what’s interesting about this is you actually there is a benefit if you in jujitsu and on the battlefield if you try something and you see the reaction now you know the reaction and you try it again if you automatically counter the reaction that’s a great setup so Dean will do three three times he’ll do something three times he’ll go once fake once fake if he doesn’t do the third time he won’t do it which is a great rule to have because now that person has thought oh they’re setting this up but yeah so sometimes it’s good to try something you see the defenses and now you can attack it with those defenses understood it is beneficial so would you judge it that it’s so complex you can go for a guillotine but the way you went for the guillotine can change a lot to you know like some I won’t try it from this very exact position you know two three times I’ll go on didn’t work maybe I’ll try it again all obviously didn’t work you good at defending from there there maybe you’ll do something else something on something else and then come back to it you know those guys yeah you’ve got it you got it you that’s a great point if I try a guillotine on you and then I try it again you already know it’s like if I try one on you it’s tight close but you get out you’re defending it like crazy now you’re not even let me get it again yeah I got to attack 14 I got to attack up multiple other things probably like probably around five or six other things yeah before I come back to the guillotine and I’m going to get it deep right then I got good defense right on my van throw a little extra yeah you’re gonna set it up different typically you know you know those guys are really good at triangles yeah I’ll just fly Motta anywhere yeah so all that is is it’s the same thing where they’ll go for a triangle and sure you can even be like yeah I know this could a triangle so I’m going to defend the triangle so you know how to defend this right so you’re not as good so you’re used to defending the triangle from from the guard that’s it meanwhile this guy’s doing some half guard thing to sweep you here Glen you base too sweet he’s going for that triangle you know so he knows it from everywhere so it’s the same eventualities but the way he approaches difference so it’s like attacking this mountain we’re not going to go up this straight in the front of the mountain we’re going to try the front ok defended we’re going to try it from the side okay defended we’re going to try from the side here then go to the front and go to the other side you know an airborne yeah yeah whatever back to the book when fighting with enemies if you get the if you get to feelin stalled up and are making no progress you toss it will toss your mood away and think in your heart that you are starting everything anew as you get the rhythm you discern how to win this is becoming a new anytime you feel tension and friction building up between yourself and others if you change your mind that very moment you can prevail by the advantage of radical difference this is becoming new so sometimes you guys got to put your attitude in check right uh reason that I thought about that I thought about that in terms of from leadership perspective dealing with people the minute you know he an iron a meeting and almost when I start feeling that friction I’m I should need to recognize I’m doing something wrong I’m creating friction I’m not making progress need to start anew need to take a different approach you need to realize that early when you’re dealing with other human beings the more I continue down the bat approach that wasn’t working the harder it is to back out of so you start sensing that bad approach go a different direction when you are fighting adversaries and get to feeling stalled up in petty maneuvers remember this rules military science while in the midst of the minutiae suddenly you shift to a large perspective changing to great or small is an intentional part of the science of the art of war it is essential for warriors to seek this even in the ordinary consciousness of human life this mentality is critical to military science whether large or small scale this concern should be given careful consideration so this is detachment you have to detach you can’t get caught in the minutiae and you also can’t get caught in the large scale you have to be able to see both of them and when you when you feel like you’ve spent too much time in one time to back out and see the other one when you start and when you start feeling bogged down step back step back take the large perspective let me ask you this a gear obviously well-versed in the in a lot of like detachment for example do you conduct like your everyday life just that just you have a forefront of your mind you’re just yeah I mean I’m not saying you’re detached all the time but you you know like you’ll detach it just a split second when you have to anything is it that available no actually I’m more often I’m observing myself the whole time okay yeah now this is weird because sometimes people say no you enjoy your life and that’s not true you come to jujitsu with me I I will smile oh I’m having fun right I’m I’m actually so detached doing jujitsu but I’m in the like the Zen mindset right my mind is not even there so that’s that’s very pleasurable for but you know I’m not like detached when I’m when I’m playing with my year-old daughter I’m not attached when I’m you know hanging out with my family not in this big detachment mode but if I’m dealing with one of my kids and one of my kids did something I shouldn’t have done or I’m gonna catch then yes absolutely yeah absolutely when I’m dealing with a client and you know they’re having issues with something I’m detached you know a client starts getting mad at another client and I’m there I’m detached you know that’s one of the benefits of a vessel on front is actually on front when we come into work with a company we’re but we’re de facto detached and they’re always caught up in these crazy situations these companies well not all of them but even a company that’s doing well they’ve got things that they don’t see because they’re in the fight they’re there they’re in the tactical battlefield they’re getting after it they got sales they got to do they got numbers they got to reach they got all these things going on they got goals they got raises that they’re doing it got all those things happening and they’re in it so when we come in we aren’t attached it’s just inherent in what we’re doing and it’s very beneficial because we’re detached from a leadership perspective and that’s what we’re looking at so some companies might come in and they’re detach but they’re not there to look at the leadership they’re look at the finances right there look there to look at the process you know a lot of companies need help with their process and that’s cool there’s companies that there’s consulting companies that come in looking process there’s consulting companies that come in and look at finance we’re consulting company that comes in and looks at leadership and what we have is we’ve been doing it for so long not just in the military in the military in the business world that when we come in detached we carry out this role it for us to what’s happening because we just we’ve seen it before yeah we’ve seen it before you know and then oh but in those cases you know when the session when you’re quote/unquote at work you know or imagine it’s easy to just be empty tattoo yeah but like what I’m saying is just your everyday life you know you talked about like with your kids or something like that is it is it easy to detach at a moment’s notice or is it the kind of okay I think I got a DITA I think I’m conditioned yeah the point that when things start to escalate I automatically detach yeah yeah like when I see something you know if I see say a lifeguard situation you know I’m down at the beach or I’m down at the ocean and I see a lifeguard situation something happening yeah I instantly detach and I’m looking around I’m seeing where the where positions aren’t seeing what we can do to help I’m instantly detached whereas a lot of people are not detached at all oh my god is right instantly detached completely yeah that’s the kind of system or even you know if if there’s an escalation in the household of some kind raised voices or whatever which is not honestly there’s not a lot my house but if there is it’s an instant attachment for me is an instant right here my kid yelling you know maybe raising his voice to my wife it’s instantly it’s not it’s not why is that kid your notes it okay boom I’m detached I’m going to find what’s going on yeah that’s very I think I’ve conditioned myself you have to be like that and I think that’s why I always talk about you got to have those red flags right identify what it is that you do as a human that make that makes you realize you’re escalating to yeah that’s what you got to watch out for yeah it really seems like that’s like the goal you know to make it to have it be just like how you have in addition yeah to have it conditioned into your brain that when you when things are escalating around you it’s a warning that flashes you just go back at automatic room that that’s what’s not good like you know we’ll be walking down the street it’ll be some kind of a situation in the streets instant attach it instant all right what’s going on where’s the cops where’s the cars what you know it’s it’s that’s all the time yeah because really the the default I think for you know your average person is how it’s not like okay what’s the scenario what’s the problem to be solved how do I solve it it’s more how do I feel about this you know now that we’re thinking about it I bet so I was when I was training I was I spent time in the training Department of SEAL team one training cell when I was part of cadre hell yeah and and there and then obviously I ran the training for the West Coast SEALs when I was at trade debt and in both what is this may have really helped me cuz in both those situations I was an instructor so therefore while we would throw hard problems at people I would be once again de facto I am detached because I’m not in the platoon that’s going through the training so I am detached and so I always got to see how much more you can see when you are guests so as I learn that over the years and saw over and over again that I could even when I was a young seal in in cadre at SEAL team one we would I’m sitting there as an e5 seal you know an enlisted seal not in charge of anything but I’m watching the the situation unfold and I can see what the solution is man and and the end of and the platoon chief can’t see it and he’s more experienced than I am he can’t see it cuz he’s in it and so I would always just say well I’m just all I need to do is just step back see what I used to be able to see when I was an instructor easy boom yeah I probably got to train my attachment by actually not being in participating but watching me like if you sat around and watched street fights off like as a bouncer he is a bouncer you’re sober you’re seeing it day in day out eventually as them longer but when you first became a bouncer there was a fight where you detached at all no he probably weren’t you’re probably oh there’s like America and then the more experience you got the more level-headed you got you can always tell a good bouncer when they yeah hey you know they can come in they can take a total not get they’re not escalating themselves they’re detached so you probably achieve some of that as well yes fully yeah so you’ve it’s almost like you you recognize just over and over again where the advent or the beneficial position is and it’s outside not in sight as far as mentally and outside your own head not inside your own head yeah that’s goodness the goal right there it is class men yeah back to the book military science involves knowledge of the methods of other schools unless you know the ways of other schools you certainly cannot understand the way of my individual school God understand your end we got understand other methods got understand the way other people are doing things there are some other schools that are fond of extra long swords from the point of martial art I see them as weak schools at times when you are engaged in an opponent at close quarters the longer sword the longer your sword is the harder it is to strike with it you cannot swing the sword back and forth enough and it becomes a burden then you are in a worse situation than someone wielding a small sidearm sword in the context of large military science the extra-long sword is the large contingent a shorter one is a small contingent is a battle between a small contingent and a large contingent impossible there are many examples of a small contingent winning over a large contingent thus in my individual school there is a version there is an aversion to narrow biased attitude this calls for careful examination so yes or just like with a longer sword the harder it is to maneuver with a smaller sword it’s easier to maneuver if you take a big giant element with you on the battlefield it’s harder to maneuver if you take a smaller in the business world you set up your company this large business it’s going to be less maneuverable if you break it into smaller teams that are more maneuverable could be very beneficial so you should have an aversion towards biased attitudes that book if you slash with unreasonable force when you are going to kill someone intending to deal a powerful blow of the sword you will not be successful even when you are making a test cut on a dummy or something it is wrong to try to deliberately slash powerfully when facing an enemy in mortal combat nobody thinks of striking weekly or powerfully when one thinks of killing each other when one only thinks of killing the other there’s no sense of strength and of course no sense of weakness one only thinks of the death of the enemy and I like that because obviously we see this in in martial arts when somebody’s trying to knock the opponent out with every swing that they take and they miss all of them yeah they’re winding up in there graphing it just doesn’t work the way you knock someone else bus you know keeping your tight combos together and throwing them and in the business world what I see is when people try and lead again this is so strange but leaders supposed to be powerful right yeah and sometimes people lead with too much power yeah and and they lead with so much force that they’re that they’re missing what’s happening they’re missing the the the nuances of the people that they’re leading and they’re taking away the power from the people that they’re trying to lead yeah is it like Kyle like they might be focusing too much on being powerful yeah they might be focusing too much on being powerful they might be focusing on too much on being the leader right and then we get all ends of the spectrum here some people aren’t leading enough right buzzer that’s horrible some people are leading too much which means they’re turning into a micromanager or they’re overbearing and they’re not getting feedback from people so with both those if you’re trying to lead so hard another thing that happens you see people try and do is that they’re chasing the target which is something we say from shooting where they’re basically shooting where their last round went well you see people that are leadership positions they’re trying so hard to be the leader they want they get feedback and they adjust and they get feedback again they adjust again they’re trying so hard to do a good job that they’re actually failing they’re actually failing because they’re trying too hard to make people happy they’re trying too hard to adapt to what people are the feedback that they’re getting and like what are your principles okay the principles of your leadership shouldn’t change then the principles of the goals that you’re trying to accomplish they shouldn’t be changing day to day so why would your little tactics be strange changing day to day now you’re moving all over the place so sometimes people lead too hard hmm got to be careful that one careful consideration yes if this should be examined carefully in the course of struggle for victory by military science you win by disrupting others defenses by making moves’ opponents do not expect by confusing opponents or irritating them or scaring them sensing the pattern of the rhythm when the ponents get mixed up to see victory clear distraction the focus of the eyes depends on the school there are those who fix their eyes on the opponent sorts and there are those who fix their opponents fix their eyes on the opponent’s hands there are those who fix their eyes on the opponent’s face and there are those who fix their eyes on the opponent’s feet and so on when you try to fix your eyes on some particular point there is a sense of distraction and this becomes what is known as an affliction in martial arts generally speaking the focus of the eyes in martial arts is on the hearts and minds of the people involved we need to understand people we need to understand human nature and lead and to fight and to win in my martial art there’s no change in footwork it is just like walking along a road as usual following the rhythm of the opponent finding the right physical position in conditions of both hurry and calm the stride should be orderly without slack or excess this is what when I was a brand new seal and one of my favourite awesome instructors that was putting I was one of the cadre when I was going through but he’s the first guy that I heard that running to your death but when he would move he was an extremely is probably one of the best shooters in the SEAL Teams as far as pistol rifle combat shooting he was definitely one of the best and when he would move through a building he would just be moving at this steady pace and it was just the most awesome thing it’s faster than a walk but it’s definitely not a run and it’s smooth and he would give us little examples of how effective it was and how you needed to move that way and that’s that’s that’s exactly what this reminded me of like a good pace solid pace and you just steady hmm back to the book when you master an art or science you performance does not appear to be fast the performance of an expert seems relaxed but does not leave any gaps the actions of trained people do not seem rushed the jeff glover when you’re watching him no word that always comes to my mind is smooth yeah and he’s going fast about it but it looks so smooth yeah and it is fast lightning fast but so smooth yeah my way of teaching martial arts is to have beginners learn and practice those techniques that are easily mastered first teaching them the principles that they will readily understand as for those things that their minds have a hard time reaching I observe the understanding of the individual subsequently teaching them deeper principles gradually step by step so you start teaching people things that they understand accordingly in transmitting my science I do not care for written pledges or articles of penalties observing the intellectual power of students teaching them a straight path having them abandon the bad aspects of the five ways or the six ways of martial arts so that they naturally enter in to the real science of warriors causing their minds to be free from doubt this is the way I teach martial arts thorough training and practicing necessary so this reminds me of all the clickbait articles that are out there that say in fact we made a funny video that said the one thing you need to do to chase and it was right it could fade because you see those all times I was looking at a website the other day or a social media feed the other day from of those websites every I count like 14 in a row of the RL that were posted or five things that every CEO does yeah seven steps to you know this and four because those are just quick pay people like uncle that’s cool I broken it down into four things I can easily understand out click I’m gonna click on that let’s do it and now I can be now I can achieve you know whatever so they need to know I don’t have to work and you don’t have to work and just you know more the list value good you know so that’s some stuff you gotta watch out for click on those things but you know what that’s what people do they’re interested set in ways a Navy SEAL blah blah blah they did that they’ve done that with some of mine they took they took the dichotomy of leadership and they made it into an articles like 12 things every leader Navy SEALs 12 things every leader needs to characteristics or somebody broke it down like that they’ve done that with actually quite a few things yet we’ve done they’ve they’ve changed it from you know the dichotomy of leadership which is a concept right it’s a concept and there are some examples of the concept but that’s the one that they turned into like a cartoon where they got me in all these weird different outfits can you see that there’s epic got me is like a salmon colored sports jacket and they got me on one of them is a dumb dressed like Sherlock Holmes I’m serious this exists wait is the video Miller or like that’s it’s a it’s a cartoon I guess is what I call but it’s an article okay it is this insider it’s an article it’s got these cartoons of me and it’s saying the 12 I think it’s the 12 characteristics every leader needs to follow but they took the dichotomy of leadership which is a concept of which I give examples in the book of how this concept applies but they said no not a concept you get a 12 you we don’t want a concept that might be too hard to understand right we’re gonna cut on that yeah gotta click on those yeah well in their defense it is more like what he call it digestible forget it for sure no I I totally understand what they’re doing and you know what if it gets someone which is their goals to get people to read it and if someone reads it goes okay that’s a cool I understand there’s a constant be honest yeah credit good job they are but but what we see is people that are doing it and they’re actually their purpose is to get to click and they’re not actually trying to introduce people to something more deep than that there’s something deeper than that they’re just trying to get them to click on that and and feel good for the next 30 seconds like oh man I’m going to definitely do those four steps three things to do to incinerate belly fat yeah there’s a go on there you go there’s another one incineration I like it very powerful back to the book in my individual school there is no such thing as a distinction between initiatory and inner lore about the long sword so that is awesome and what he’s saying is there’s no difference between what you learn in the beginning and what you learn in the end it’s the same I was talking about that with lace today the concepts are the concepts the concepts of the concepts and what you learn in the beginning about combat they stay true and that’s why we’re reading a book from 1643 that’s telling you to take the high ground yeah that’s why because what you get introduced to the true concepts they remain constant do the tactics change sure do we get radio so we get night vision and we get long-range weapons yes of course we get all those things but the principles the fundamental principles of combat leadership they don’t change there is dr Booker there is no such thing as the ultimate guard it is only a matter of understanding its effective qualities in your heart and mind this is what is essential to martial art so I think it’s so important and I’ve always tried to maintain this is that there is no perfect thing there is no perfect thing enough I’ve said this about jiu-jitsu I mean I always get pigeonholed as a jujitsu like Oh Jocko thinks this is the best thing in the world yeah when I will readily and have always readily admitted the many weaknesses of jiu-jitsu I happen to love gdq as a thing to do as a hobby and I also do think it is the best place to start your self-defense journey but then you absolutely have to learn how to wrestle you absolutely have to learn how to box you absolutely have to learn some more Thai and beyond that you have to start learning weapons you have to learn how to share all those things are important and with jiu-jitsu same thing even inside of jiu-jitsu I don’t look at him say there’s a one way to do it the minute you say there’s a one way in play you’re you’re getting flanked you’re getting flanked back to the book this is now we’re getting the last scroller the scroll of emptiness Warriors learn military science accurately and go on to practice the techniques of martial arts diligently the way that is practiced by warriors is not obscure in the least without any confusion in mind without slacking off at any time polishing the mind and attention sharpening the eye that observes and the eye that sees one should know real emptiness as the state where there is no obscurity and the clouds of confusion have cleared away so we need here like that talking about the empty mind and all that really good definition of what that is no obscurity and the clouds of confusion have gone away what they call that the mooch in mind you should I don’t know they say there’s a word like I put a deal with this right now I call monkey mind actually it’s what I’ve always called it just back to book knowing that mentality taking straightforwardness as basic taking the real mind as the way practicing martial arts in the broadest sense thinking correctly clearly and comprehensively taking emptiness as the way you see the way as emptiness emptiness there is good but no evil wisdom exists logic exists the way exists mind is empty 12 May 1645 and that’s how he wraps it up and about a month later and about a week before he died which is on the 13th of June 1645 he wrote his final piece which is called a decoder which translates to the path of alumnus or the way to go forth alone or the way of walking alone or the way to be followed alone I found all those different translations and all those titles one thing that comes through clearly is that this is a piece about asceticism which is a great word then you hear a lot in in religious philosophies and it means severe self-discipline and avoidance of all forms of indulgence that’s that’s what the zetas sysm is and so here he’s got these 21 rules these 21 rules to walk this path of the lowness then we’re gonna go through one except everything just the way it is that’s pretty simple and it’s pretty damn powerful to do not seek pleasure for its own sake 3 do not under any circumstances depend on a partial feeling for think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world that’s called humility 5 be detached from desire your whole life long and that’s hard to do and there’s one of my if I had to pick a favorite poet besides Shakespeare but there’s another guy named William Blake who is the poet and he was a painter and he he printed things and he was a I studied them College didn’t like a lot of stuff I said in college but I liked William Blake and one of the things that when I read that line I thought about something that William Blake had said and this is a totally contrary to that lesson this those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained I’m not even going to take a side on that one I’m gonna let you Shashi and William Blake figure that one out I think you can’t balance those two I guess I just took aside then oh I didn’t love it right in the red in the middle the balance I’m about the balance six do not regret what you have done seven never be jealous boom by the way eight never let yourself be saddened by a separation nine resentment and complaint are appropriate neither for oneself or others we don’t like plates around here 10 do not let yourself be guided by the feeling of lust or love now people could obey that one especially between the ages of 16 and 25 if you solve all kinds of problems yourself in your life 11 in all things have no preferences think about that think about that think about if everything that you deal with on a day to day basis you you try and not have preferences 12 be indifferent to where you live that’s tough one for me kind of like San Diego yeah do not pursue the taste of good food kind of a challenging one it may be pretty maybe he wasn’t yeah he’s around rib eyes but he was around sushi though so let’s guess you noticed something might be but I’ll tell you what the fasting thing is I’ve been like just getting after some fast lately it’s real so good yeah it feels so good and somebody asked me on Twitter the other day do you ever not scratch an itch just to work on your this one other nails like yeah who doesn’t do that right but there is something cool about the fasting the control the discipline is put is pretty cool yeah it’s it’s pretty cool too and it feels rewarding yeah it feels rewarding every time you say I don’t really need to eat that whatever that 10 years yeah look like I’m not gonna die yeah I can make it too you know this evening what I’m gonna eat a nice big dinner mm-hmm there’s something good about there’s something rewarding yep yeah in a couple of ways for sure that each thing I’ve done that before like actually a lot of times just to see not because one more yourself I can be would not scratch of age but just to see like what could happen to the itch you know you usually get scratched and that’s it like what’s gonna happen though if I just let it go maybe your arm will grow with ya they’re infected yeah but I found this is two different things one thing that happens is it simply goes away it goes away then the other or ultimately they both go away but the other one is like a it gets crazy to the point where you get like a hum is a a mosquito bite or that’s a little different yeah but still it’s an itch though sure the itch just gets like deeper and it’s crazy but it goes away yeah discipline discipline fourteenth do not hold on to possessions you no longer need again the original minimalist here yeah I need to get minimalist with something like two old t-shirts it’s make way for the other half of old geezer and I got old jujitsu t-shirts from 1997 competition I want to throw that away your little fundamental meaning I want that thing I just give you that new one no let’s not get rid of now this is an interesting one number 15 do not act following customary beliefs so here’s a guy you know from the samurai tradition steeped in tradition he’s like don’t act but as customary beliefs yeah have it open mind yeah do not collect weapons or practice weapons beyond what is useful well some of us like weapons yes do not fear death number 17 do not fear death that’s affirmative number 18 do not seek to possess either goods or Fife’s beyond your old age or four year old age make sense right nineteen respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help without counting on their help seems like a good move number 20 you may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honor indeed and number 21 never stray from the way and that’s some incredible guidance and so much of it is so simple and yet so powerful and it’s from 1645 and what struck me the most about this these 21 rules is that he wrote them on his deathbed and the suspicions he died of some kind of cancer which had rapidly weakened him and this is what he wrote on his deathbed you will know not he wrote about not letting desires control you but controlling your desires you will not about gaining more possessions but ridding yourself of them you are not being the center of the world but being humble being in the world and he wrote as a warrior not about fighting things but accepting them and he wrote about controlling his feelings and all those rules what they’re about is they’re about discipline discipline and in his final days after this incredible life that he lived he knew it was discipline that would set him free from those clouds of confusion and I think we should probably all pay attention to that and I think that’s all we’ve got from musashi for tonight until we get to episode 100 will will be covering the novel musashi which I was reading it the other night and there’s a reason why we’re going to cover it I think it’s the first novel we’re going to cover mm-hmm in fact it is there’s no one getting covered any novels the way the warrior kids in office yeah but this is the first novel will come now everyone thought myself included that the first novel we would cover would be blood meridian which is also historically based novel I’m still not ready for blood meridian and I’m still not ready for blood meridian I’m reading it over and over again little chunks of it and it’s deep and it’s so the first novel will be Musashi and we’re gonna learn a lot from that one and I’m gonna start with the same opening we started with today sure that opening that opening is just legit isn’t it it is when you read that opening the whole world’s gone crazy the man one might as well be a dead leaf floating in the autumn breeze he’s laying piles of corpses that’s how you kick off a novel we can learn a lot we can always learn a lot from the past and you know speaking of learning Craig’s sure is there anything that you could teach us quickly under doubt if anyone wants to learn how to support this podcast yeah of course when you say quickly you want me to just talk in a fast pace or keep it short or both take a little bit of both I’m not trying to truncate it you know your gig you know you don’t want me to rush per se I don’t want you to rush but I don’t want to be here much longer Lily daddy for yes I got alright well let’s talk about on it I feel that’s the best way to start Oh until Hawaii yeah story that’s right what’s why I went to Kauai forgot my curl rough deal swarm over there so not too bad and a lot of the workouts I was doing we’re pretty like light so it was less than a factor but when I came home next day I walked down just strangely because in Hawai you do a lot of you know walking on the beach all this stuff I’m dragging my kids around in this wagon so it’s weird your feet get it worked out so I’m walking down the stairs today oh my feet are all stiff anyway no krill oil boom back on the krill oil back home all good so point there being don’t stop taking your krill oil you will feel it look it’s not a detrimental thing well for me it’s not on I can’t speak for everybody it could be detrimental if you stop but you know like your joints being stiff Oliver I think essentially might affect other people while another feet yeah yeah my keys for sure Oh krill oil is for your joints I get mine it on it chocolate his gets is it on it on it is the most reputable place to hit it omega-3s for your joints also what else do we need to get after it if you’re going high intensive Roux going high-performance for yourself I’m not saying Olympic athlete necessarily I’ve not seen not Olympic athletes necessarily shroom tech sport you know keeps you in the yellow and the green it says it doesn’t allow you to go in the red that’s how it feels that’s my best way to sum it up like if you have another round let’s say you’re on your last set of like I don’t know jiu-jitsu or something hard or you’re doing circuit training you got to do one more round this one will get you there without going into the red it’s called shrimp export do it lets you utilize your oxygen consumption into your muscles better and more efficiently so we’re better also you know good way to do that is when you breathe with your diaphragm from what I read you uptake 10% more oxygen hmm remember that next to me breathing from bemidji breathe British also you know breathing excess I thought breathing exercises were like all these Yogi’s they’re just doing breathing exercises you know like I know how to breathe he was breathing when I was born and I know how to breathe thirtysomething some odd years of breathing experience I know but those I can experience breezes are very experienced reins and holding my breath all that stuff you know where you’re from Hawaii hey man you know you could have jump in the water every once in a while swim underneath it anyway when you breathe those muscles but you know I mean that’d help you breathe in your ribs and your diaphragm like if those are strong you can breathe better true I’m just saying that don’t neglect that so the breathing exercise people respect but chemically if you want you know better oxygen uptake true to export that’s the one krill oil alpha brain for your brain I can’t go into the neuroscience of it right now but you can if you want just go to the website on a comp and if you want 10% off of any of this stuff go on it calm / Yakko now don’t think that alpha brain shrooms export in crude oil are the only things on there because there’s I’m tempted to say literally I don’t really overuse the word literally don’t know you don’t ya approved you said yeah so I’m gonna say borderline literally there’s stuff or anything on there like if you need supplementation for something they’ve even workout equipment on there like good stuff too yeah I don’t think you’ll find like a like dumbbells though no there’s no because that’s not real you can get Dumbo’s anywhere yes going to Amazon for dumbbells and speaking of Amazon actually just so I’m clear though if you want 10% off this stuff there is 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