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[…] By Anonymous Conservative […]
I thought Bill Whittle’s comments about sports basically teaching us how to deal with failure were very insightful. It recalled the parts of the r/K book where you discuss group competition as being trained at an early age. Do you know any other decent books or films about the psychology of it? I think every guy wants to be like Rocky Balboa at one point or another, but doesn’t know how to cope with real competition, fear of failure, and self-doubt.
I don’t know any good books on it, but I do remember in my teens being early for an adult class, and watching the instructor with a little kid in the kids class maybe five years old or so, who was crying at having taken a ding in the free fighting at the end of the class. His parents were there, and comforting the kid, and the instructor said very bluntly, “If you guys weren’t here, I’d just kick him in the ass and throw him back out there.” Then as an afterthought, he added “Maybe bring him back in a year, and we’ll see how he does.”
It seemed cold to me, but I ended up doing a few months coaching a pee wee team for a friend later on. What struck me was how little kids would erupt crying from a ding, and if you put them on the side they would sulk and grow timid over time. But if you acknowledged they got a ding, and then restarted the fight quickly as if you didn’t care, they went right back to fighting as if nothing happened. I now realize I was retraining their amygdala to focus on the fight, and not the pain. If the fight started back up their mind shifted its focus to the fight in front of them reflexively, and ignored the ding. Put them on the side and they focused on the ding and not the fight.
Over time, that became the way they thought. Take a ding, rub it, and move on, or take a ding, get on the side, lick your wounds, think about them, and sulk for a while, and then be extra careful about getting dings in the future. Failures, dings, and other setbacks, combined with being taught to ignore them and relentlessly advance are the best things you can learn.
I guess victory is a drug, and just like dopamine in society, too much is not a good thing.
Now that I think about it, in the book Rogue Warrior, I was surprised when Marcinko said that when he built SEAL Team Six, he selected the guys from the back of the pack in the SEALs. The guys who ran slower, did fewer pushups and chins, and who had a bitch doing everything. He specifically said his experience was that the gazelles, as he called them, the guys who excelled all the time, would not be as able in combat when everything was going wrong. The guys who never stopped trudging, no matter how bad they were at stuff, would just ignore the setbacks in combat, and keep on going on.
Interesting.