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Training violence makes good people more dangerous and better

A goal of training is to make good people more dangerous to bad people, but a side benefit is that the humbling process of repeated failure—tapping and submitting thousands of times—also makes people better, developing maturity, vulnerability, and interpersonal skills organically without explicit instruction.

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Speaker

Matt Thornton

Evidence Quote

it's the humbling process of having to deal with failure over and over again failure is an essential part of this process

Source

316 - Self-defense Reality And FantasyMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:18:07 AM

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