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Cope Hard, Live Long: Resilience Is a Survival Skill
Ten thousand people over fifty, followed for twelve years. The ones who handled hardship best were far more likely to still be alive. Nobody's…
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Ten thousand people over fifty, followed for twelve years. The ones who handled hardship best were far more likely to still be alive. Nobody's…
Cope Hard, Live Long: Resilience Is a Survival SkillTen thousand people over fifty, followed for twelve years. The ones who handled hardship best were far more likely to still be alive. Nobody's training grit. Let's fix that.Listen + Read
The Purposeful Pause: Discipline Is What You Do Between Stimulus and ResponseTwo guys get mounted in the same roll. One panics and taps. One breathes and escapes. The difference is three seconds, and that gap is where discipline actually lives.Listen + Read
No Free Will. Now What? With Dr. Scott.Dr. Scott Padgett texted Gene that he no longer believes in free will. Gene's whole show is about choosing discipline. They work it out on air, with Sapolsky, Harris, and…Listen + Read
AI Won’t Fix a Weak Decision-MakerCEOs are warning that AI without hard thinking just makes yesterday faster. Speed multiplies whatever you already are. The tool doesn't build the judgment. The reps do. Here's the crutch…Listen + Read
The Decision You Keep Not MakingGene and Aaron take Carl Smith’s four-step process for hard decisions and run it through a basic training emergency, a stalled event, and the calls they both still carry.Listen + Read
How Not to Be a Douchebag (A Martial Arts Debrief)That Jonah Hill jiu-jitsu Dunning-Kruger clip, Zuck's floating sparring platform, Gordon Ryan burning a student's belt, and Gabriel Varga on doing it right.Listen + Read
Tough Isn’t Enough: The Trap of Faking StrengthToughness gets you into the fight. Resilience wins it. Two elite coaches, one dangerous lie, and the one question to ask yourself every morning.Listen + Read
7 Signs You THINK You’re Dangerous (But You’re Just Cold)Every one of the 7 "dangerous" traits has a counterfeit that looks identical from the outside. The difference: the real one is chosen, the fake one is compulsive. We run…Listen + Read
Nolan’s Odyssey Is Secretly About the Warrior MindsetThe most disciplined man in history had all seven traits of a dangerous person. They destroyed him. We run Odysseus through the warrior mindset, Homer to Nolan.Listen + Read