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Jocko Underground: The Political Climate-Are We Headed For Another Civil War in America? The Indirect Approach for the Win. The Fear of Blood?

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Jocko DEFCOR Network

Management, History, Business

4.831.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The indirect approach wins. The direct approach loses.

Are we headed for another civil war in America?

Dealing with a poor superior.

Dealing with the fear of blood.

Jiu Jitsu: I may have a substandard academy and not know it.



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0:00.0

This is the Jocco Underground Podcast number 19 with Echo Charles and me, Jocco.

0:05.4

Well, like good evening.

0:07.0

I come.

0:08.0

All right.

0:09.0

So last week I posted, oh, these last week, it was a few weeks ago.

0:11.3

A few weeks ago, I posted something from Gettysburg where I was talking about the indirect

0:16.6

approach to things.

0:20.0

The specific thing I was talking about is that in the Civil War, in the Battle of Chancellor

0:25.3

of Hill Stonewall, Jackson convinced General Lee to take that he should take the indirect

0:31.7

approach in this battle.

0:33.1

He should take his troops and walk 14 miles to get to the flank of the Union instead of

0:39.3

just doing a frontal assault, which was a half mile.

0:41.4

So he'd go right at him, go right at the Union Army or come in from the flank after

0:47.1

we'd do a walk in 14 miles.

0:48.8

He was able to convince General Lee to do that and once they had the flank, they won

0:52.9

the battle very quickly with minimal casualties.

0:56.3

So this is the indirect approach and I was talking about the fact that it works with people

1:02.1

and you should use it 99% of the time.

1:05.4

It's the better approach and it might seem like it's going to be harder because it's longer

1:09.6

but ultimately it's more efficient and it's more effective.

1:14.1

And then as I looked, you know, as I posted it, whatever, no big deal and looked at some

1:21.0

of the comments that people wrote and you know, most people are like, yeah, absolutely

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