Discipline Equals Freedom Field Manual by Jocko Willink ( PDFDrive.com )
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HESITATION<br />
“Between the acting of a dreadful thing<br />
And the first motion, all the interim is<br />
Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.”<br />
That is Brutus, from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar,<br />
who, in the play, is plotting to kill Caesar—someone<br />
he was loyal to.<br />
And Shakespeare—the master of understanding human<br />
nature—captures what that feels like. This is how<br />
Shakespeare’s words would translate today:<br />
“Between the acting of a dreadful thing…”<br />
Between the moment when you are waiting to do<br />
something that you don’t want to do …<br />
“And the first motion…”<br />
and the moment when you initiate the action …<br />
“All the interim…”<br />
The whole time you are waiting to take that action …<br />
“Is like a phantasma or a hideous dream…” is like an<br />
evil spectre, an apparition—a nightmare.<br />
So the battle, the struggle—the hesitation—takes<br />
place in that moment.<br />
That moment, when we must step into the unknown—that<br />
moment filled with fear and horror.<br />
And that fear is what causes hesitation—and<br />
hesitation causes defeat.<br />
HESITATION IS THE ENEMY.
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