AUDIO: How To Deal With Threatening People in Public - Jocko Willink

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what's the best way to handle awful random people say a bunch of intimidating thugs on a bus or a violent scary drunk person well and there's even more awful random people out there that you might need to look out for I think this is a you know obviously you've got people that are appointed criminals that are coming after you you've got terrorists that might be coming after you or just trying to do random acts of mass violence so those are those are a particular type I think that this is a question directed for more of something that could easily happen yeah to be
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right random people that are being jerks or thugs or people that are drunk or high or whatever well it's okay so obviously what do we want to do we want to be prepared so to start with you want to be in really good physical condition so I mean you want to work out you want to be ready to handle yourself physically um you want to know how to fight that means you need to train jujitsu boxing Muay Thai wrestling you if you're in a high crime area you're in a high threat area and you think this stuff is really gonna happen out there then guess what you need to get a
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firearm you need to learn how to shoot a firearm you need to train with the firearm you need to understand the ramifications of utilizing a firearm and then you need to carry it so you can protect yourself and those same things go if you decide you're going to carry any kind of weapon whether it's pepper spray or a mace or an ASP or a knife anything that you're gonna carry you better know what you're doing you need to prepare with it so that's what you need to do to be prepared okay that's yeah that's what in Annie you
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don't said this before I set it on the Sam Harris podcast if you you if you do these things if you work on your physical condition if you work on your fighting if you work on your shooting if you work on your your weapon skills and you never have to use them great I I will still say it has not been wasted it has been time that has made you a better person it's been proposed discipline on you it's gotten you better physical conditioning it's just good for you mm-hmm so regardless you should be training in these type of situations now
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once you get to this type of situation first of all how did you get that because we need to have situational awareness right how are you not paying attention to what's going on around you you need to pay attention to what's going on around you and then you watch for these scenarios that could unfold and you avoid them period so so how are you getting stuck on a bus with a bunch of maniacs right there's something when they got on you got off that's a real simple right or you go to get on and you see these knuckleheads you walk right
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back off I mean that's that's pretty easy and all there's a bunch of knuckleheads walking down the street towards you go across the street walk down the other side situational awareness oh you hear them coming up behind you cool step off across the street avoid we want to be have situational awareness that's gonna solve that should solve 99% of your problems is being aware of your surroundings understanding your situation planning what about just simple planning like where you going when are you gonna come home you know if you took a subway into the city at night
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and you know you're gonna coming home late at night and you're alone and you are suspect of what's happening maybe you get an uber instead of ride in the subway it's just planning that comes into play as well to avoid these situations now if you do get caught in these situations here's a couple recommendations okay my number one is to kind of do your best to detach from from this scenario right so you got let's say you're on a bus and there's a bunch of people acting crazy and they jumped on right after you got
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on and you couldn't get off in time so now you're on the bus with them I want you to detach from them so that means you're not looking at them you're not staring at them you're not being all intimidated you want to just attach just do what you would normally do you know everyone carries a phone these days break out your phone start looking at your phone pull out your paper start looking at your paper study if you don't have either one of those two you know look outside look at the passing just just don't enter their world
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don't become a part of their thing that they have going on because what they want to do is they want you to make eye contact what they want you is glance over at them what they want you to do is enter their world because a lot of times these knuckleheads that they're in their own world and you actually have to penetrate their world if you want to get in there so what you want so what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna remain I'm not gonna I'm not gonna cower though there's a difference okay because if you give the impression of you're just like