I think you need to either review your knowledge of the SSH or watch interview of the fighters.
The Diaz brothers are notorious for starting fights over pretty insults, constantly talk about not being respected enough, and smoke pot and avoid interview because they are too anxious. That is the furthest thing from a Sigma. Your other guesses aren't much better.
As a Giant fan I always admired how Kurt Warner held his head high, took the high road, and had nothing but nice things to say when replaced by Eli Manning. Years after the switch, Warner defended Eli Manning to a fault. It’s a tough spot to be in, but he handled it with grace and dignity. Total respect for Warner and Cousins.
I would also imagine that it was a huge weight lifted off of both their shoulders. What Alpha wants to let the team down when they could still have respect and still be useful as a mentor? It’s like Obi Wan letting Darth Vader kill him.
Passing the torch to the newer, younger Alpha is actually a very Alpha thing to do. It implies the older Alpha is confident enough in his own status to allow another man to take the reigns, so as to say, "Your youth does not intimidate me."
I don't *like* the Turkish Padishahs or anything the Ottoman Empire did in Europe or old Anatolia, but it was very commendable how the old Sultans had a system whereby, if they didn't retire at an appropriate age, their very well-trained son who had survived the inter-sibling rivalry would usurp him. It kept things sharp and efficient and vital.
It's said one of the reason for their collapse was they eventually left their sons to drug themselves in the harems, rather than sharpen their skills with command of armies and governates.
The irony of this, for those who don't follow football closely, is that Favre held on too long when he was with the Green Bay Packers in 2007 and Aaron Rodgers was waiting in the wings, then Rodgers himself did the same thing 15 years later with Jordan Love. I will say for the Packers that pretty much having only two quarterbacks over 31 years is an impressive demonstration of consistency
It’s a credit to their organization prioritizing the team over the legend/ego. This Penix/Cousins dynamic is borne out of that provable succession plan.
Sigma - very capable leader, but unwilling; women and men alike love him; doesn't want to meddle in political affairs, doesn't care about it - all he wants is to be left alone to do his own thing, but keeps being called to take the lead, which he does, reluctantly.
Sportsmen know their time of high acheocement will end while they are still young. For many , soon after high school. They get serious injuries (including too many concussions) and they have ro do something else. The torch will be handed on.
In academia, there are no alphas and power is hoarded as if they aredragonss with rhoer hoard. They look down at sports/and despise prayer. They should not
Good scholars can exist some even draw breath among us, but goodness of what we have for institutions, it's prime material to use as reference for evil magicians.
Evil anything, really. Administrators, researchers, teachers. Western institutions drove out good men with military backgrounds in favor of fake and gay everything.
Even the students are allowed to cheat and get degrees, or get passed on silliness making the degrees worthless even for those who did good work, since their cohorts are nearly illiterate and hiring managers now see how terrible most new grads are at basic things now.
Lotta things should just be apprenticeships mind you, after all for a lot of degrees, even when earned by a good student the result isn't a work ready individual.
I hire software engineers and some related professions, and CS degrees have always been a total mismatch to what the industry needs, but it was sold as "prepped to learn things in industry", but really it was just a delayed IQ test.
Is this person smart enough to bother training?
Managers try to mix in that they are "seeing that they accomplished something", but that is BS because in the 90s they were saying that, and you could easily fire people who sucked then.
So if someone was smart enough via IQ test alone, you could just give them a short set of work that doesn't need training to see if they can complete things, before starting the training.
None of this happens though. Instead "the industry" just takes these weak untrained graduates, and gives them jobs they don't know how to do, but aren't that difficult to do in a basic way, and 5 years later they declare they are "senior" because now they have 5 years inside the industry.
It's insane, and it's lead to amnesia in every area, because "senior" people know nothing of 10 years ago, there is no mentorship really, and "newer is better" even though the patterns all repeat.
I see the cycle change every 7 years, which means you need 21 years experience to be prepared for a cycle you already went through before, but with mentorship, you would be prepared for each cycle change. With "5 years to senior" or 10, these people think they already understand the industry, but they just moved out of their familiar cycle into a new one, and don't know it even happened, except the buzzwords all changed.
Compare this to a high-school-dropout who I met working at Starbucks pouring coffee. He couldnt change his Windows desktop background image at the time and would call a buddy to do it. I took him as an apprentice and trained about 100 hours in total over 2 years in 2-3 hour sessions.
After the first year of training, I hired him to do super basic physical work that got him inside (setting up wifi around the office, setting up peoples computers, etc). After the second year of training, he was now doing the white-collar side of things in the basics.
After that he kept growing on his own, 5 years after training started he was making the most the industry pays non-stars, and was at the top of his technical organization and winning all the technical fights he cared about with people that had 10-15 years more than him, and degrees.
He is probably 115 IQ or so, so not highly intelligent.
I've never seen someone who went through the standard path get to the top as fast, or become as competent as he did, because he was given a "golden path", and then learned to branch off of it on his own.
I think this should be more the standard than the outlier case. At least for the purpose of entering an industry and being useful:
Apprenticeship gives a caring, informed, verified education. It's building a competent worker.
Formal education is throwing random trash to the neighborhood dogs to eat, and seeing which ones come out competent. It's taking the masses, and just filtering who puts up with all the BS and is useful enough to hire.
All those masses who don't make the filter have to work at the bottom of society, because they failed to make the corporate cut. If they had been apprenticed instead, they would be prepared to hustle and change, and deal with difficult industry periods, because their mentor would have given them all this supplemental knowledge just over the course of working and getting trained.
This is an impossibility in a formal education environment, because the relationships cannot exist in the same way, so knowledge can't be transfered in the same way.
Also, that Starbucks guy I trained and hired then started training other people, and while none of them became that good, he is still out there making untrained people into trained people as a matter of habit, because that's how he was taught. The formally educated generally, just recommend others go to formal education.
I loved his ascendancy during his Redskins years. The dorky but infinitely endearing "You like that!?" will echo forever in football Valhalla.
I ask a lot of Alpha questions. Today is no different. Vox characterized Cousins as an Alpha "who knows his worth". Can it be otherwise? Are there natural Alphas that unwittingly get the girl, glide to leadership in the organizations they join, and deny the frequent esteem of their male counterparts, but their Alpha hearts can not fathom that they are anyone of note or worth?
"Knowing your worth" is commonly used to imply a person is not currently being appreciated enough/properly utilized.
But consider the more literal meaning of the words. Knowing one's worth in Cousin's position could mean that he knows his age/injuries have rendered him no longer worthy of the starting position. It could also mean that he understands his value on the team is best used as a mentor for his successor.
From reading these posts, it would seem Vox knows his worth to his soccer team lies in a different role than it did in years past.
The Jake Taylor character in the Major League movies is a good example of this as well.
This shows the respect both men have for each other, the way good male mentorship enables next generations to succeed and a display of Christian faith.
Want to read voxs ssh analysis of UFC fighters.
Alpha: Jon Jones, Anderson Silva , Fedor , Rampage Jackson
Deltas : Dustin Poirer, GSP
Gamma: Colby Covington
Sigma: Diaz brothers, Conor McG , Chael Sonnen
I think you need to either review your knowledge of the SSH or watch interview of the fighters.
The Diaz brothers are notorious for starting fights over pretty insults, constantly talk about not being respected enough, and smoke pot and avoid interview because they are too anxious. That is the furthest thing from a Sigma. Your other guesses aren't much better.
Something Boomers are also not too good at.
As a Giant fan I always admired how Kurt Warner held his head high, took the high road, and had nothing but nice things to say when replaced by Eli Manning. Years after the switch, Warner defended Eli Manning to a fault. It’s a tough spot to be in, but he handled it with grace and dignity. Total respect for Warner and Cousins.
I would also imagine that it was a huge weight lifted off of both their shoulders. What Alpha wants to let the team down when they could still have respect and still be useful as a mentor? It’s like Obi Wan letting Darth Vader kill him.
Passing the torch to the newer, younger Alpha is actually a very Alpha thing to do. It implies the older Alpha is confident enough in his own status to allow another man to take the reigns, so as to say, "Your youth does not intimidate me."
I don't *like* the Turkish Padishahs or anything the Ottoman Empire did in Europe or old Anatolia, but it was very commendable how the old Sultans had a system whereby, if they didn't retire at an appropriate age, their very well-trained son who had survived the inter-sibling rivalry would usurp him. It kept things sharp and efficient and vital.
It's said one of the reason for their collapse was they eventually left their sons to drug themselves in the harems, rather than sharpen their skills with command of armies and governates.
> great QBs like Brett Favre, Aaron Rodgers
The irony of this, for those who don't follow football closely, is that Favre held on too long when he was with the Green Bay Packers in 2007 and Aaron Rodgers was waiting in the wings, then Rodgers himself did the same thing 15 years later with Jordan Love. I will say for the Packers that pretty much having only two quarterbacks over 31 years is an impressive demonstration of consistency
It’s a credit to their organization prioritizing the team over the legend/ego. This Penix/Cousins dynamic is borne out of that provable succession plan.
Totally unrelated. Would Maximus’ character from Gladiator be an Alpha or Sigma?
Sigma - very capable leader, but unwilling; women and men alike love him; doesn't want to meddle in political affairs, doesn't care about it - all he wants is to be left alone to do his own thing, but keeps being called to take the lead, which he does, reluctantly.
Commodus is a textbook gamma, btw.
Thank you. Sigma was my hunch as well. And now that you say it, I see that (Gamma) in Commodus as well.
Sportsmen know their time of high acheocement will end while they are still young. For many , soon after high school. They get serious injuries (including too many concussions) and they have ro do something else. The torch will be handed on.
In academia, there are no alphas and power is hoarded as if they aredragonss with rhoer hoard. They look down at sports/and despise prayer. They should not
Good scholars can exist some even draw breath among us, but goodness of what we have for institutions, it's prime material to use as reference for evil magicians.
Evil anything, really. Administrators, researchers, teachers. Western institutions drove out good men with military backgrounds in favor of fake and gay everything.
Even the students are allowed to cheat and get degrees, or get passed on silliness making the degrees worthless even for those who did good work, since their cohorts are nearly illiterate and hiring managers now see how terrible most new grads are at basic things now.
Lotta things should just be apprenticeships mind you, after all for a lot of degrees, even when earned by a good student the result isn't a work ready individual.
I hire software engineers and some related professions, and CS degrees have always been a total mismatch to what the industry needs, but it was sold as "prepped to learn things in industry", but really it was just a delayed IQ test.
Is this person smart enough to bother training?
Managers try to mix in that they are "seeing that they accomplished something", but that is BS because in the 90s they were saying that, and you could easily fire people who sucked then.
So if someone was smart enough via IQ test alone, you could just give them a short set of work that doesn't need training to see if they can complete things, before starting the training.
None of this happens though. Instead "the industry" just takes these weak untrained graduates, and gives them jobs they don't know how to do, but aren't that difficult to do in a basic way, and 5 years later they declare they are "senior" because now they have 5 years inside the industry.
It's insane, and it's lead to amnesia in every area, because "senior" people know nothing of 10 years ago, there is no mentorship really, and "newer is better" even though the patterns all repeat.
I see the cycle change every 7 years, which means you need 21 years experience to be prepared for a cycle you already went through before, but with mentorship, you would be prepared for each cycle change. With "5 years to senior" or 10, these people think they already understand the industry, but they just moved out of their familiar cycle into a new one, and don't know it even happened, except the buzzwords all changed.
Compare this to a high-school-dropout who I met working at Starbucks pouring coffee. He couldnt change his Windows desktop background image at the time and would call a buddy to do it. I took him as an apprentice and trained about 100 hours in total over 2 years in 2-3 hour sessions.
After the first year of training, I hired him to do super basic physical work that got him inside (setting up wifi around the office, setting up peoples computers, etc). After the second year of training, he was now doing the white-collar side of things in the basics.
After that he kept growing on his own, 5 years after training started he was making the most the industry pays non-stars, and was at the top of his technical organization and winning all the technical fights he cared about with people that had 10-15 years more than him, and degrees.
He is probably 115 IQ or so, so not highly intelligent.
I've never seen someone who went through the standard path get to the top as fast, or become as competent as he did, because he was given a "golden path", and then learned to branch off of it on his own.
I think this should be more the standard than the outlier case. At least for the purpose of entering an industry and being useful:
Apprenticeship gives a caring, informed, verified education. It's building a competent worker.
Formal education is throwing random trash to the neighborhood dogs to eat, and seeing which ones come out competent. It's taking the masses, and just filtering who puts up with all the BS and is useful enough to hire.
All those masses who don't make the filter have to work at the bottom of society, because they failed to make the corporate cut. If they had been apprenticed instead, they would be prepared to hustle and change, and deal with difficult industry periods, because their mentor would have given them all this supplemental knowledge just over the course of working and getting trained.
This is an impossibility in a formal education environment, because the relationships cannot exist in the same way, so knowledge can't be transfered in the same way.
Also, that Starbucks guy I trained and hired then started training other people, and while none of them became that good, he is still out there making untrained people into trained people as a matter of habit, because that's how he was taught. The formally educated generally, just recommend others go to formal education.
The thought that comes from reading this, primarily, 'it's a shame'.
It's a shame that you doing what you did is unusual.
Its an opportunity for anyone who can do it.
Even doing the mentoring is rewarding. I had to learn how to express everything so an untrained person could try to get on board.
I loved his ascendancy during his Redskins years. The dorky but infinitely endearing "You like that!?" will echo forever in football Valhalla.
I ask a lot of Alpha questions. Today is no different. Vox characterized Cousins as an Alpha "who knows his worth". Can it be otherwise? Are there natural Alphas that unwittingly get the girl, glide to leadership in the organizations they join, and deny the frequent esteem of their male counterparts, but their Alpha hearts can not fathom that they are anyone of note or worth?
"Knowing your worth" is commonly used to imply a person is not currently being appreciated enough/properly utilized.
But consider the more literal meaning of the words. Knowing one's worth in Cousin's position could mean that he knows his age/injuries have rendered him no longer worthy of the starting position. It could also mean that he understands his value on the team is best used as a mentor for his successor.
From reading these posts, it would seem Vox knows his worth to his soccer team lies in a different role than it did in years past.
The Jake Taylor character in the Major League movies is a good example of this as well.
A true leader recruits trains and retains his successor which means leaving when the new guy is ready not when the old guy wants to
There's many many things people envy the alpha for, and many many things they overlook.
When old man time comes knocking with his cudgel, he will take a crown, either given gracefully or taken after he beats the insolent.
Few consider the burden of that visit, of taking the crown off. Only if you find a worthy successor is old man time cheated of his due.
To wear even the crown of a mismanaging tyrant is a burden, yet still man's heart fills with envy.
It's good to be the king, but heavy is the crown.
There is little better in this world than a great man who is also a good man.
Such men tend to get drowned out by the loudest, most ambitious men amongst us, but the quality of their example shines through all the same.
Greater strength and wisdom shown here than clutching to your position, 401k, vacation home, and El Camino like Gollum and his precioussss.
This shows the respect both men have for each other, the way good male mentorship enables next generations to succeed and a display of Christian faith.