been thinking about this tweet, and the nature of bravery, or at least, the nature of putting up a fighthttps://twitter.com/drethelin/status/1351425598460227585 …
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2/ Back in middle school, I got picked on a lot. Verbally, but also physically. I lived in a kind of rural town that was like 1/3 white collar, 1/3 decent blue collar, and 1/3 white trash. The elementary schools were great, but for some reason the middle school was terrible.
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3/ If a kid was a nerd, or fat, or not part of the in crowd, it was the done thing to trip him, knock his books down, sucker punch him, or whatever. The hallways were effectively unpoliced, so this happened EVERY SINGLE DAY.
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4/ The normal response was to keep your head down, shrug off the single punch, pick your books up after you were tripped. I thought that was bullshit.
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5/ So I made it a policy that whenever anyone slapped, punched, or tripped me, I'd go wild on their ass. Just raining down blows. This usually ended up as a 2-on-1 or 3-on-1 fight, but I'd never cry uncle of give up - just keep punching, even if I took 2x or 3x as many fists.
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6/ Turns out that the ROI for an attacker is a lot better when they deliver 1 punch and get 0 back, than when they deliver 16 punches and get 8 back.
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7/ This is an important lesson. Don't start anything, but on the other hand...never give an inch.pic.twitter.com/ImhBYVC2jv
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