Unleash The Warrior Within on The BIG Idea with Donnie Deutsch
Preface: Unleash The Warrior Within
By Richard "Mack" Machowicz
Two of the most overused words in our modern vernacular might be the words, war and warrior. Why is it that we are attached to these words? What is it about these words that cause us to engage in a way that either inspires or elicits so much emotional energy?
In today’s world, why would anyone want to Unleash the Warrior Within?
Here is a fact: Our collective human history is permeated with the context of war.
It would be easy to point at some location on a world map and say that is the reason war is on our brains. But that is not the truth. The truth is that we have been using the word war so much and for so long that its meaning is so much deeper. It is because we are so familiar with the word that we rarely, if ever, explore its meaning or how often it is used to talk about persevering through unthinkable odds. When we talk about the war on drugs, what are we really talking about? We’re talking about our wish to end the dangers of illegal drugs.
When we talk about the war on poverty, we’re talking about our desire to end poverty. When we talk about the war on AIDS, we’re talking about controlling and ending the deaths caused by HIV and AIDS. Now what about the war on war? We want to end war. But to end war we must understand war. And the starting point for all war comes from within each of us.
