Judges 7:19 · World English Bible
So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch. Then they blew the trumpets and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
Design the situation so retreat is impossible and courage stops depending on how you feel that day. The most reliable way to change what a person does is to remove what they can still do instead.
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Design the situation so retreat is impossible and courage stops depending on how you feel that day.
The most reliable way to change what a person does is to remove what they can still do instead. Hands holding a torch and a trumpet cannot also hold a sword, so three hundred men were locked into a strategy they had no physical ability to abandon halfway.
That is a must engineered into the situation rather than held in the mind, and the panic that tore through the camp was released by men who had made their own retreat impossible first. Leaving the means of retreat within reach costs a person the commitment itself, because the fallback gets used and afterward gets called prudence.
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Which back door are you keeping open, and what is it costing you to keep it?
Burn the boats and break the cooking pots once the army has crossed. An escape route kept open becomes an escape route used.
If a man does not know which port he is sailing for, no wind is the right wind. A decision held loosely is not yet a decision.
Say not that you will study when you have leisure, for that leisure may never come. The commitment has to be fixed before the day negotiates with it.
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