Everyone can hurt you.
As inconvenient as this truth may be, it is something you need to know.
Guns were made this way: anyone can use them.
There are also many ways to harm a fellow living being with nothing more than a finger (without spoiling too much from Breaking Bad).
I don't want to overwhelm you.
Or stress you.
Or even warn you in this piece.
I just want you to think about wolves (FIGHT), rabbits (FLIGHT) and dears (FREEZE).
We tend to think that those who (most probably) won't hurt us are rabbits or dears.
But they're not.
Usually people flee from the ones who are willing to fight.
Or even worse, they just freeze, praying for the mercy of those willing (or just pretending intention) to fight.
BUT, in an uncomfortable sense, everyone can become a wolf, if not given another choice.
"When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard."
—The Art of War, Sun Tzu
The Diamond People
That's why I've always had so much respect for the people I like to call diamond people.
Hard. Precious. Strong.
And yes, diamond is flammable, like human beings. But I digress.
The point of this piece is to remind you that everyone, under the right circumstances, can fall back to their primal instincts.
Our operating system is still a basic one:
Hard-wired to survival.
So when inconvenience, inexperience, or unpreparedness kick in, the rest is usually a sad story.
As I love giving ideas to help you become faster, stronger, wiser, and bolder every day, here's the simple one:
Do harder things, so the hard things will look easy.
This is how you prepare yourself for the things you're not prepared for (or just don't want) but they will inevitably happen.
One Last Thought, Friend:
One of the skills school failed to teach us is high agency.
Simply put, high agency is the ability to acquire any necessary skill to solve a problem.
And life can be viewed as a series of problems.
Prepare yourself.
Build your agency.
Your future self won't be able to thank you enough.
Lifeward, friend.
PS
More ways to become faster, stronger, wiser, bolder:
→ My Flow Pantheon to tap into your primal (and not only) flow
