Brazilian Jiu-Jietsu & The Spiritual Life w/ Andrew Swafford

Pints With Aquinas

Matt Fradd

Stthomasaquinas, Saintthomasaquinas, Mattfradd, Theology, Catholic, Dominican, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

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🗓️ 7 September 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I chat with Andrew Swafford about Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and its relation to the spiritual life. We discuss:

- The particular challenges of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
- Virtues you can learn from it.
- Combat tips.
- The morality of UFC and other fighting sports.
- And more!

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0:00.0	I'd like to announce my new book How to Be Happy St. Thomas's Secret to a Good Life.
0:07.3	Although just about every marketing firm self-help guru and man on the street has an answer,
0:13.6	very few if any understand true happiness.
0:18.0	It doesn't come from power, pleasure, popularity or possessions.
0:23.2	So what is happiness and how do we find it?
0:26.3	Then how to be happy, I rely on the help of St. Thomas Aquinas to show what will and won't
0:32.0	bring us happiness in this life.
0:34.3	My hope is that by making the thought of Aquinas accessible for today, my new book will be
0:39.3	a helpful guide to a good life.
0:42.0	Check the link in the description of this video to get your copy today.
1:08.8	In our farms.
1:32.1	like everybody's at home, you know, and tired with their looking at.
1:35.2	And so all these workers, I mean, they had, it's like they didn't need our work, right?
1:38.6	They're like, you know, I'll be there in six months.
1:39.9	Like, man, will you please come and do this work?
1:42.1	Cause I'm in confident.
1:43.0	I can't do it myself.
1:43.8	Oh, that's perfect.
1:45.1	So, you need traveling or just, will you traveling a lot before?
1:48.5	I mean, you're a full-time university professor.
1:49.9	Yeah, you know, not a little bit, but not too much.
1:53.4	I filmed the Hebrew study in May of 2020 during, so during COVID, we filmed that in near
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