Did you ever wonder how humanity expanded across the globe? Was it the true warrior who set out to explore the vast untamed regions of the planet? Was it the hunters or the farmers who fuelled the expansion? Which one of these two primary categories fuelled the human population explosion?

This true warrior has this definition of insanity to offer you, from the mind of Albert Einstein: “Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” This would be like a farmer planting wheat every year and expecting to harvest corn … or a hunter following the same game trail year after year, looking specifically for wolves, when all he has ever found there were fox and rabbits. Expecting an outcome that is clearly not possible, based on past experience (as well as other inputs), is not something a sane (or logical) brain would do.

What does it take to be a hunter? It takes game! Where is the game? Finding that out is the hunter’s job. The game is usually a territorial, static phenomenon, and so the hunter studies the signs, learns about the game, and starts hunting. A successful hunter does the same thing over and over in the same place, and expects the same results. This is sane thinking, and sane behaviour.

The farmer finds some land and cultivates it, grows his crops, and raises a large family. When the kids leave home, they go out and find some land and repeat the cycle. Because of this, when populations grow, farms spread across the landscape to accommodate the population. This, of course, always messes up the hunting grounds, and ends up pushing hunters out into new territory.

On the surface, it might appear that it was the hunter who set out and explored, but it was actually the farmers’ demand for farm land that fuelled global expansion.

So this true warrior wants you to understand the lesson herein: Getting more means looking farther afield … and gaining different results means doing something different.

The true warrior knows that, when living in the moment and looking and discerning carefully, it is easy to look at the near horizon and see all that there is to see. The problem with living in thoughts of the future is that it often creates blindness to the opportunity of the moment. Worrying about or anticipating a future event creates tunnel vision, with much of your mind involved in thoughts completely unrelated to the present. The true warrior understands how easy it is to miss a present moment or find yourself unable to allocate enough resources to coming up with a new plan that will be able to produce different results.

True warriors, when cast to the front line by unseen pressures, live in the present moment and cast their vision beyond the near horizon in real time, and looks at the alternative meanings in all that is beheld. True warriors understand that their default perception, to be avoided, is that what you see is all there is (WYSIATI), and that this is only true inside their own minds. It is not true or real at all. There is far more than what is seen on the surface, and if the true warrior practices seeing beneath that surface, they will not just rely on their perceptions. No. The true warrior documents … so that events can be viewed remotely and outside the veil of WYSIATI.

You are warriors, and you will produce results from new, innovative, and proven strategies, which will result in opportunities to succeed. So it has been written.