“I have always found that, without the requisite philosophical overlay, merely teaching people a series of psychomotor skills does little to enhance their survivability.

To most of the “grass-eater” people, victimization, like cancer, is something that will probably get us all at some point. They resist thinking about it, because they don’t want to go through the disciplined drudgery of self-improvement.

As trainers, we therefore must spoon feed them the hard, lumpy, bad-tasting medicine of truth.”

John Farnam

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