This is Jockel podcast number 167 with Echo Charles and me, Jockel Willink. Good evening, I go. Good evening.

Beware of that trap.

Choose dear Baywolf, the better part.

Eternal rewards.

Do not give way to pride.

For a brief while your strength is in bloom.

But it fades quickly and soon there will follow illness or the sword to lay you low.

Or a sudden fire or surge of water or jabbing blade or javelin from the air or repellent age.

Your piercing eye will dim and darken.

And death will arrive dear warrior.

To sweep you away.

And that right there is some timeless wisdom offered by the

the epic poem Baywolf, the first poem in the English language.

Of course, it's old English which is mutually intelligible from the modern English that we speak,

but it has some incredible translations if you want to read it.

I recommend the famous Haney version.

But regardless of the translation that you get, the story remains as do the lessons.

Lessons based on war and leadership and really human nature.

And we find these lessons over and over and over again throughout history and in different cultures

and in different wars.

And we all continue to learn every day from history and from each other.

And it certainly seems that there are some principles that are universal.

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