Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "How To Make An Aggressive Person Respect You" video.

  1. Little known fact about Socrates (6:21): he was a reliable, trustworthy, leader of his men. When your army is routed, the survivors are the small groups who stick together. Socrates was a corporal in the Athenian army defeated in one of the major battles between Athens and Sparta. While the Athenians were running for the hills and getting chopped up retail by the Spartans, Socrates' small section of hoplites came out of it alive because he held them together as a coherent group rather than helpless scared individuals. Lawrence, in his commentary on the Arabs' victory over the Germans in the desert, speaks admiringly of the German survivors, "They were magnificent," little groups who stuck together in the chaos and saved each others' lives while their army as a whole was being ground up to Hell. Socrates wasn't any airy-fairy academic. He was a tough, Prussian, drill-master and both your leader and your buddy in the fight.
    1