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#346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels

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Are You Willing to Take an L in Terms of Psychology?

I feel like ego is part of this. The question of conflict, whether it's a street fight or anything else, is the calculus of, are you willing to take an L in terms of psychology? I've seen people get double leg takedown somebody on the ground. It's a different thing than doing in the mats versus concrete. It's still somebody grabs somebody's ass and you're not backing down. So to take those losses and basically just posture, lower your head and live to fight another day type of that situation. That might not kill you then, but it'll kill you that night or the second night if you don't get checked out.

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