Part 2: Fighting

We all fight wars—in our work, within our families and abroad in the wider world. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in.

The new warrior is now called to meet a highly ambiguous challenge, often of minimal physicality. Saving habitat and community is a complex, wicked proposition, and the challenge of modern activism is often brutally cognitive. The enemy, if there is one, is not always obvious, and success not always clear. Can the warrior stand up to this kind of c

There comes a time in every company’s life where it must fight for its life. If you find yourself running when you should be fighting, you need to ask yourself, “If our company isn’t good enough to win, then do we need to exist at all?”

If left unchallenged by inactivity or driven apart by incoherent stimuli and stress, the subsystems of the body drift apart in function. This makes us weaker and more vulnerable to disease. In contrast, a coherent challenge forces the subsystems of the body to work together. Fighting, in other words, can be integrating.