Steven Pressfield wrote an excellent book that describes the warrior spirit, Gates of Fire
I point this out because Pressfield is also starting a series about The Warrior Ethos that appears interesting. In it he attempts to answer:
What is a warrior? What ethic does he fight by? Is a code of honor necessary? If so, what are its tenets? How does it arise? Is it something we have to be indoctrinated with by mentors and elders? Or does it arise spontaneously, summoned by the exigencies of the struggle and the imperatives of the human heart?
A new article in this series will run every Monday on his website/blog. The Introduction and Chapters 1 and 2 ran last Wednesday. Chapters 3 – 6 ran today.
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Love this series on theWarrior Ethos . “Some say that self-preservation is the strongest instinct of all, not only in humans but in all animal life. Fear of death. The imperative to survive. Nature has implanted this in all living creatures. The Warrior Ethos evolved to counter the instinct of self-preservation.Against this natural impulse to flee from danger (specifically from an armed and organized human enemy), the Warrior Ethos enlists three other equally innate and powerful human impulses: Shame. Honor. And love.”
There’s always a balance a warrior must keep to maintain the advantage in the moral, mental and physical realms of conflict and violence. This series helps you to see just that!
This is right on target. I teach mindset, planning, anger control and many other things in my classes. I have definitely seen the effects that litigation fear, departmental backing etc. have had on cops in the last ten years. But, you must rise above that to go home safe each night. The focus is on the here and now! To use one of the late Col. Jeff Cooper’s sayings..”You have to deal with problem #1 first, before you can begin to deal with problem #2″…not an exact quote of course.
Keep up the warrior mind!
SDR