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There is a great book by Tom Ricks called "Waging a Good War" where he looks at the civil rights movement as a military campaign.
There's a great book by Tom Ricks, I have in the bookstore called Waging a Good War, where he looks at the civil rights movement as a military campaign.
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There is a great book by Tom Ricks called "Waging a Good War" where he looks at the civil rights movement as a military campaign.
There's a great book by Tom Ricks, I have in the bookstore called Waging a Good War, where he looks at the civil rights movement as a military campaign.
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The book discusses Bob Moses, a civil rights leader, highlighting his calm demeanor and ability to reflect before acting. The author emphasizes Moses's capacity for reflection and distance from the situation, even while leading.
Ricks looks at what made Bob Moses one of the best, yet lesser known, civil rights leaders.
he had the capacity for reflection and distance from the thing you are very much in the midst of an even leading.
the ability to gain psychological detachment to reflect on action is a talent of many effective leaders.
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It was discussed in a past Daily Stoic podcast episode and details how Bob Moses' calmness and quiet reflection contributed to his effective leadership in the Civil Rights Movement.
he had the capacity for Reflection and distance from the thing you are very much in the midst of an even leading.
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Ryan Holiday mentioned reading this book, which focuses on the civil rights movement viewed from a military historian's perspective, comparing it to a military campaign.
you've heard some of my past guests like Tom Ricks who I talked about in his book The Waging A Good War
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The book discusses the Highlander Folk School and its role in training civil rights activists. The author's explanation of the school's training methods, focusing on strategic and tactical planning, was highlighted.
In his fascinating book, Waging a Good War, Tom Ricks who has a must listen to episode on The Daily Stoic Podcasts, he explains that each Highlander training session of one or two weeks began with a strategic question. What do you want to do? They asked and then it ended with a tactical discussion of how to reach that outcome. What are you going to do?
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The book, focusing on the civil rights movement, highlighted that civil rights protestors underwent training in non-violence, emphasizing that it was a discipline practiced, not merely a moral stance.
i just read this book it was very good uh this is i just had him on the pockets this is tom tom ricks's book on the civil rights movement um called waging a good word but anyways one of the things that we don't talk enough about when we talk about the civil rights movement is we we think of it solely as a moral movement based on ideas which it was but we ignore that every single one of these civil rights protesters was subjected to training they were trained in non-violence non-violence being a moral and spiritual discipline that you have to practice and they were even even like the million man march there was a list of rules yeah that you had to agree to follow to participate in the march okay if you if you have trouble with these rules stay home let us handle it right and so so i think we sometimes we do the civil rights movement a disservice by not acknowledging that the very human impulse when someone punches you in the head or calls you a racial slur is to respond with violence or words or whatever that you know like when john louis falls on another protester to protect them from his body this is the opposite of what you're instinctually going to do this is a result of deliberate and very well thought out practice which drives all the way from gondi but i think I think we have to understand that this was a discipline that they were following it wasn't just they were right and so magically were transcended you know transcended their human limitations and were superhuman they they were like an athlete who had practiced for this moment of