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What I mean specifically have you ever been in a situation where you are in very sudden physical danger where you are forced to react without thinking? This is called fight or flight and it is a real phenomenon. People will auto response fight, run or freeze. Its not a conscious decision because there is no time for evaluation.

Its something you have no control over. No matter your personality or what you think of yourself you don't know what kind of man you are until tested. I actually feel bad for a man who will never know who he is in this manner. I think many people go through their whole lives never being tested in this way.

What I mean specifically have you ever been in a situation where you are in very sudden physical danger where you are forced to react without thinking? This is called fight or flight and it is a real phenomenon. People will auto response fight, run or freeze. Its not a conscious decision because there is no time for evaluation. Its something you have no control over. No matter your personality or what you think of yourself you don't know what kind of man you are until tested. I actually feel bad for a man who will never know who he is in this manner. I think many people go through their whole lives never being tested in this way.

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I was younger and accompanying a group of people cutting wood in the forest.

A large pine tree was cut and fell towards me.

All my life previous to that point I thought that if a tree ever fell towards me I would be intelligent enough to calmly and rationally step to the side and let the tree fall.

However, when the situation finally happened and I found a tree falling directly towards me instead of stepping aside I turned 180 degrees from the tree and instead tried to outrun it.

It wasn’t a rational decision. The rational decision would have been to step aside and let the tree fall where I had previously been standing. But there was something about seeing a tree falling towards me that just told me to instantly turn around and run as far away from it as fast as my body could move even though running “away” from the tree was really running parallel to its fall.

In this situation I was VERY fortunate I was able to outrun the tree because it almost certainly would have seriously injured me if not killed me.

I was much younger then. Perhaps if the same thing were to happen to me now I would have the ability to overcome the initial panic and refocus on a superior choice. But back then… hot damn! There was just something primal that short tracked my brain and took total control of my body. Only the second time that has ever happened to me.

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I'm not sure that was a bad decision. You couldn't have been certain which way the tree was going to fall precisely being that it wasn't fell intentionally at that time. Thus you instantly calculated that escaping the perimeter was your best bet. You probably ran both scenarios instantly in your mind and decided you had time to outrun it. Might have actually been the better choice.

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I think you could possibly be correct.