Lauren and I are cracking on with our quest to complete Amazon Prime.

We’ve just polished off a show packed with chariot racing, gambling and steamy, sweaty, saucy sauna scenes.

It’s called:

Those About To Die

The show is set at the height of the Roman Empire and follows the rise of Tenax, an underground crime boss and owner of Rome’s largest betting tavern.

In one scene, Tenax finds himself caught in a sword fight with the emperor’s guard. 

After a bit of a ding dong where he nearly gets cut to ribbons, Tenax brings home the bacon and dispatches the guard to the catacombs.

As the scene closes, Tenax stares back at the former guard with an icy glare and growls:

Never pit a soldier against a streetfighter

Quite right too.

The hardened pro who has trained all their life, learnt the rules and implanted them through discipline & structure ready to trot out the next time the shit hits the fan will never even come close to the raw & rugged free spirit who taps into a primal, real-time knowledge of what to do in the midst of an unpredictable and spontaneous situation.

I don’t mean life or death situations.  I mean the unpredictable and spontaneous situation we call “life”.

In the moments that matter, it’s not using well-worn strategies or tried-and-tested tactics which makes the difference.

It’s grasping what that moment requires then and there. 

The only way to find this is by listening to the moment.  If you’re using your knowledge and memory as a crutch to lean your life on, you’re consulting your mental recipe book instead.

If I was going to boil this down to one word?

That word would be instinct

Instinct is what separates the rule-breakers from the rule-followers.

Instinct is what separates the wild cards from those who play life by the book.

And most of all, instinct is what separates the champions from the challengers.

Thing is, I always thought the way to find the answers to life’s questions was to look inside my brain and to keep looking when the answers inevitably didn’t appear.

This is why I felt so stuck for so long.

What I see now is that below the hum of thoughts there’s a separate stream of natural instinct guiding and pointing me in the right direction.

And it’s always there.  All I need to do is listen.

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 - Tom