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Book: The Warrior Ethos
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Steven Pressfield _ The Warrior Ethos
The Bhagavad-Gita changes this. It takes the Warrior Ethos and elevates it to a loftier and nobler plane-the plane of the individual's inner life, to his struggle to align himself with his own higher nature.
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Steven Pressfield _ The Warrior Ethos
The warrior culture, on the other hand, values cohesion and obedience. The soldier or sailor is not free to do whatever he wants. He serves; he is bound to perform his duty.
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Steven Pressfield _ The Warrior Ethos
Leonidas's and Dienekes' quips draw the individual out of his private terror and yoke him to the group.
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Steven Pressfield _ The Warrior Ethos
Some heavy shit is coming down, brothers, and we're going to go through it.
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Steven Pressfield _ The Warrior Ethos
No one is born with the Warrior Ethos, though many of its tenets appear naturally in young men and women of all cultures. The Warrior Ethos is taught. On the football field in Topeka, in the mountains of the Hindu Kush, on the lion-infested plains of Kenya and Tanzania. Courage is modeled for the youth by fathers and older brothers, by mentors and elders. It is inculcated, in almost all cultures, by a regimen of training and discipline. This discipline frequently culminates in an ordeal of initiation. The Spartan youth receives his shield, the paratrooper is awarded his wings, the Afghan boy is handed his AK-47.
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Steven Pressfield _ The Warrior Ethos
The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they. -Plutarch Sayings of the Spartans
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Steven Pressfield _ The Warrior Ethos
We all fight wars-in our work, within our families and abroad in the wider world. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in.
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Steven Pressfield _ The Warrior Ethos
The payoff for a life of adversity is freedom.
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Steven Pressfield _ The Warrior Ethos
Be brave, my heart {wrote the poet and mercenary Archilochus}. Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the enemy. Meet him among the man-killing spears. Hold your ground. In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep. The ancients resisted innovation in warfare because they feared it would rob the struggle of honor. King Agis was shown a new catapult, which could shoot a killing dart 200 yards. When he saw this, he wept. "Alas," he said. "Valor is no more.
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Steven Pressfield _ The Warrior Ethos
A warrior culture trains for adversity. Luxury and ease are the goals advertised to the civilian world.
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Steven Pressfield _ The Warrior Ethos
Warrior cultures {and warrior leaders} enlist shame, not only as a counter to fear but as a goad to honor. The warrior advancing into battle {or simply resolving to keep up the fight} is more afraid of disgrace in the eyes of his brothers than he is of the spears and lances of the enemy.
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Steven Pressfield _ The Warrior Ethos
Is it healthy for a society to entrust its defense to one percent of its population, while the other 99 percent thanks its lucky stars that it doesn't have to do the dirty work?
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