when alexander was a boy, when he was 11 or 12, he was the heir, of course, to the thrown of macedon. his dad was the leader of macedonia. all of the war horses went down. alexander went there. there was one horse who was the biggest, strongest, toughest, obviously the greatest horse there. he was so wild that nobody could ride him. so phillip let him go without putting a bid on the horse. and alexander as a little boy said something like father, that's a fine piece of horse flesh that you lose for lack of spirit to ride him. the calvary officers turned around. do you think you are going to ride him? yes, i will. they said i'll buy him too. how are you going to pay? with all of my prince's inheritance. they let him try. alexander noticed something nobody else knows. the horse was spooked by his own shadow. he turned the horse into the sun and talked to him, calmed him down, sprung into the saddle and to make a long story short, while everybody was freaking out, he took it around the track. when he came back, his father was in tears and went out and embraced him and said, son, you look

primitive hunting and and the virtues that were for us little homage, a littles spirited take on macedon and stuff like that. it was really designed originally, i think, to accomplish two things. one, to overcome fear, the god of the battlefield, and to make people work together. and so since fear is probably the most primal emotion, self-preservation, other emotions and other things had to be brought in to counter that in a cultural way. and i think that's why my think of what the warrior ethos comes from. so there were at least three things that were recruited to counter fear and to make people work together. and that was on her, shame, and love. let's start with changes for a second that i think a lot of people don't think of shame as a positive. but certainly almost every great warrior culture is a shame-based culture, whether it's the samurai culture where if someone suffers dishonor, they have to, you know, kill themselves. and certainly pashtun wally is a shame-based code of honor. i would surely say the marine corps is a shame-based culture. and certainly sparta was a shame-based