Fluidity of Force Is Sometimes Better Than Concentration of Force - Jocko Podcast

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[Edgar-Friendly]

Being able to correctly perceive how others perceive you is a rare talent. Often, people misperceive how others will perceive them and act on their misperception which leads to a worse outcome.

[InsightImagingPhoto]

Guys you have no idea how important these pod cast have been to me. I’m not ex military, however my 30 years in defensive tactics and working in extremely violent jobs involving the mentally ill has given me strategies to battle my new war. Fighting a brain injury for 4 years and it was only a couple of years ago I realized I was using my last skills sets to fight through this. Asses, plan and act in every room I walk into, determine my threats that will trigger pain and confusion, then decide on if I will endure, evade, deflect or fight. My approach to panic is no different than a knife fight, I will get get cut, there will be blood, and it will hurt, but I will fight and I will walk away the winner. These mindsets have pushed my recovery in a whole new direction. Just this short segment of your podcast on fluidity is no different.

Looking forward to education this mindset to others in the future in battling brain injury, anxiety and depression, however I’ve come to realize that there is only a certain small group of people that would understand this approach, and it’s the people that have the fight mentality, the I’m going to fight to live another day. In the meantime, I will continue to learn from others like yourself and your guests. Keep up the amazing work.

[DrCharlesParker]

Too many leaders fail to differentiate process from content. Stuck on things, stuck on content, stuck on gossip, they/we can all transcend the experience of *developmental arrest* by taking the time to assess and relate to the big picture, the process, time consequences, and more comprehensive flow outcome objectives. So well said. Thanks, Jocko.

[ReynaSingh]

This was a great episode. Thanks Jocko

[moisesjimenez]

Added this to my “Food for Thought” playlist, this is some sound philosophy and I never get tired of hearing it on this podcast.

[irisgonzalez-caulder]

Willink and Dave
this is my interpretation
and thinking process of
1 . . . 00:1- 0:10 and
2. . . 2:05 - 0:15
in this audio.

When I heard this audio
at first I got angry
and began to write.

But than,
I read and erased,
what I angry wrote because
I didn't make no sense.

Now, here is zero nonsense
of what I'd wrote and erased.

This audio is from 8 - 2
I met Lazaro on 7 - 29

1. . . 00:1 - 0:10
when I heard the words
Bruce Lee aka karate
I remembered, Lazaro.

When I heard the word,
fluidity, I remembered
Coco Frio.

I'd purchased on 7 - 29
a Coco Frio
from Lazaro,
and Lazaro told me
he does karate.

My mom cried,
when I gave her a Coco Frio
and her reaction I can't stop
thinking of in these past 2 - 3 days.

Coco Frio
a Cuban culture tropical drink.



I didn't think of Coco Frio
when I heard the first word
in the audio, " Fluidity "
I didn't think nothing at
all specific of the first word in the audio.

Until,
I heard the word Bruce Lee aka karate.

Than,
Lazaro, of "Shotokan Karate, "
came to mind.

Than,
fluidity, the first word in audio I remembered Coco Frio a fluid drink.

I didn't know,
nor ever heard, until 8 - 2
the word fluidity nor the word
has another definition,
so to me, fluidity meant fluid
a drink.









1 - "fluidity of forces
may succeed
where concentration of forces merely entails rigidity
a perilous rigidity
so at times Bruce Lee, "
we wanna be like water.
00:1 - 0:10





2 - 👍 2:05 - 15
quickly people get to being
rigid with their ideas
their objectives
what they want to accomplish
and how quickly it becomes rigid.


2. I understood
and like
instantly I got rigid
and I answered Lazaro
rigid because he said
of his work,
" Este trabajo es bajo "
in Spanish,

he meant,
in English
' This work is low. '

[dala]

i appreciate the information you just shared. Being flexible sometimes might be the strongest move, attitude a person can choose.

[johnguish]

Jocko basically talking about retreat . He also reminded me the book 48law of power by Robert green. One of his law says”intensity always defeats extensity “intensity of force.

[KenHarbeson]

“The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness. I mean it is a combination of both.
I mean here is natural instinct and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony.
Not if you have one to the extreme, you'll be very unscientific.
If you have another to the extreme, you become, all of a sudden, a mechanical man
No longer a human being.
It is a successful combination of both.
That way it is a process of continuing growth.
Be water, my friend.” -Bruce Lee

[rup]

People seem to only think of WW I in terms of the Western Front from 1915 - 1918. The generals faced monumental difficulties but were frequently creative. General Plumer at Messines Ridge is a vivid example.

WW I was fluid in Mesopotamia and the Middle East. The war at sea was dynamic. The Eastern Front was a war of movement.

[armyvet]

Musashi says if your enemy is like a mountain be like the sea and vice versa. So is it also true that fluidity is only appropriate under some contexts?

[Martijn_Steinpatz]

I'm not sure if we should call WWI a rigid war. Yes, a lot of times men were thrown against the machine guns, but both sides did try a lot of new strategies and tactics, though with mixed results. The issue - or rather the tragedy - of WWI was that the technology to overcome the obstacles (modern tanks & planes, radios, etc) had yet to be invented.

[abhinavsanjana]

Short Excerpts are Better than Whole Podcasts ...

[defenderofwisdom]

Here's a question for ya... If there are these periods where (let's say) fluidity is seen as weakness, rigidity as strength, but things are really the opposite... When decentralized warfare and fluidity go from uncommon strengths to common ones, what will be the next thing proven novel in the face of a dogma which today none see as weak just as the rigid didn't before WW1?

[DinoMan_]

History was like an immense River sometimes it twisted and turned, BEND with it like water.
- Lo

[wcpassegai]

what book are you looking at in the beginning of this video?

[inbtehlulz]

Does anyone have the name of the book he was reading from?

[mattburnett]

Fluidity and concentration are not mutually exclusive,
Both are essential components of maneuver warfare,
Along with combined arms, decentralized command, radio comms etc.

concentration= localised fire superiority
Fluidity= rapid tactical maneuver, exploitation
Cover and move, fire and maneuver, etc.

Basic Jocko 101

[chicago]

So my question would be, did Simone Biles exercise this fluidity of force? Did she say to herself, “you know I’m not in it 100% right now so I’m going to sit these events out and come back to the later ones when I’m ready” and if so was she right? I would think so if I’m hearing this concept correctly.

[joban]

Fluid force is what made the Romans so powerful.