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#169 - Ollie Ollerton - Becoming Battle Ready

Modern Wisdom

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Overcoming a Negativity Default

Risk is not some personal curse bestowed on just you, it's an inbuilt fitness enhancing system that our entire species has got. We are not supposed to expend any more calories than we need to because taking a risk might make you a bit more alive, but a lot more dead. It means your genes don't get passed on. Everything in our evolutionary past up until 20,000 years ago,. benefited the people, the humans that were the most risk averse.

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