Why We Fight: One Man’s Search for Meaning Inside the Ring Audiobook (Free)

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A physical and philosophical mediation on why we are attracted to fight one another for sport, what happens to your bodies and brains whenever we perform, and what everything means

A person with guts or madness in him will get strike by a person who has learned how; it requires a different sort of madness, a far more continual kind, to hang in there long enough to become one of the people who will the knowing.

Josh Rosenblatt was thirty-three years of age when he first realized he wanted to fight..Read More approximately Why We Combat: One Man’s Seek out Meaning Inside the Ring A lifelong pacifist having a philosopher’s hatred of violence and a dandy’s aversion to workout, he drank to surplus, smoked passionately, ate indifferently, and mocked exercise that didn’t involve nudity. But deep down inside there was always some part of him that was drawn to the idea of fighting. So, after studying Muay Thai, Krav Maga, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and boxing, he chose, at age forty, that it was finally time to battle his first-and only-mixed fighting techinques match: all in the name of experience and transcending ancient fears.

An insightful and moving rumination about the nature of fighting, Why We Combat takes us about his journey from the bleachers towards the ring. Using his personal training as a chance to understand how the activity illuminates basic individual impulses, Rosenblatt weaves collectively cultural history, criticism, biology, and anthropology to comprehend what happens to the human body and brain when under assault, also to explore why he, a self-described “cowardly youngster through the suburbs,” uncovered so much meaning in putting his body, and others’, in danger.

From the mindset of fear towards the physiology of pain, from Ukrainian shtetls to Brooklyn boxing gyms, from Lord Byron to George Plimpton, Why We Battle is a fierce inquiry in to the abiding appeal of our most conflicted and controversial fixation, interwoven with a firsthand accounts of what happens when a mild-mannered intellectual chooses to step into the band for his first real showdown.