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165: Govern Your Emotions But Know Your Nature. Psychology For The Fighting Man (Pt.2)

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When Is It Okay to Quit?

Giving up does not always mean surrender yeah so surrender is like I give up on the mission yes essentially. Just because you quit one plan doesn't mean you surrenderYeah in fact I would get mad at young seals when they would come up with their plan to go hit a training target and it started to fail but they wouldn't adapt, they'd stick with their plan. We're gonna keep going oh really okay cool we'll kill everyone that you haveYou can do buddy carries the rest of the night out here in the desert I got all mySo it's essentially when it comes down to it's almost time to stop doing something that's not working kind of thing right? Yeah basically giving up

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