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Losing is not always optional / Still fighting with the driver / Uncle Harvey doesn't have all the answers / Method 1: Situating by describing / Situating cuts the scene short / Method 2: Situating by navigating from opinions to facts / Monica's friend is building weapons of mass destruction as a side gig/ What do we say when there's nothing to say / Monica puts some order in today's mess.

An army of Aikidokas / 3 is the magic number of components in an Eastern thought system / Inductive vs. Deductive/ Simple not Easy (again) / Situating, absorbing, redirecting. That's all / Situating is describing / The principles of Situating / Meet your opponent where they are, not where they are not / The smell of NAPLAM in the morning / Monica cleans up.

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As promised, a recap / The importance of being able to fit one's ego in something smaller than a football field / Wyatt Capulet vs. Hunter Montague / Billy Montague vs. Tammy Capulet / A gunfight at the Saloon / The artificial cannot be discarded / Thanks, and check out the additional materials in theaikidiot.com

The comic aspect of the Dao / Apologies to the listeners / From single cell to "Mom! I have consciousness!" / A better description of "Natural" and "artificial" / Drifting toward the artificial / Meeting a man in a dark alley

• Monica plans a prison break with Dr. Simon /
• When in doubt do Aikido /
• Stanislav Petrov saves the world (Really, he does. Twice) /
• Natural vs. Artificial balance (Not Tom Cruise!) /
• Life is complicated /

• Monica stages a coup.
• When we encounter ideas we dislike, we tend to stretch them ad-absurdum.
• Can Aikidoing deal with real bad people doing real bad things?
• Buying a gun in a very bad neighborhood.
• Why drug lords and and murderers find it difficult to switch occupation.
• The cycle of escalation in our bad neighborhood.
• The "rabid dog" - senseless, contextless violence.
• Moderate, not soft.

Let's talk about "the other guy", the opponent. / Tori and Uke in Aikido. / The high prices of disrupting the common space (even in self defense). / Learn the attack, control your defense./ Why screaming at a call-center representative (something the Aikidiot never, ever did) is not a good idea. / Wiley E. Coyote has no choice about chasing the Roadrunner. / Violence is predictable.

For more information and ideas, visit www.theaikidiot.com or write to us at [email protected] we like the attention!

• Let's call everything we talk about here "Aikidoing".
• Is life a flowing river?
• Aikidoing is very simple - just not easy.
• Why People don't like hearing about Aikidoing.
  • The inward drive vs. the outward drive.
  • The suggestion of moderate reaction as an existential threat.

• A little bit about the Aikidiot's unprofessional background.
• Why make a podcast about Aikido and conflict resolution.

Monica refuses to be bullied / When somebody becomes abusive and calls us names / Running away is usually an excellent idea / The three spaces when dealing with a verbal attack / The three spaces in Aikido, dealing with a strike to the head (Shomen Uchi) / WHAT?! We're actually supposed to do nothing?! / Minimum occupation of the common space - in Aikido and in other things.