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6: Jocko Willink - The Way of the Violent Intellectual

The Portal

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The Poetry of Combat

Combat allowed you to more fully develop as a human being, he says. He has spent his entire life trying to get good at tactics with weapons and manoeuvre on the battle field. And that is certainly the the things in combat that you get to experience. But the bottom line is this, when you go into combat, you got people that are trying to kill you. At some point you realize, ok, i could die to night, and if i die, bring it.

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