This is Optimal Finance Daily, Episode 2148, The Triumph of Logos, by Nick Majuli of

of Dollarsandata.com, and I'm your host and personal finance enthusiast, Diana Mariam.

I have a new author being featured today, Nick Majuli.

I'll share more about him right after the reading, so for now, let's get right to it

and start optimizing your life.

The Triumph of Logos, by Nick Majuli of of Dollarsandata.com

In ancient Greek philosophy, there were three ways you could try to persuade someone.

You could appeal to their emotions, what was known as pathos.

You could appeal to authority or expertise, which was ethos, or you could appeal to reason

and logic known as logos.

These three techniques, pathos, ethos, and logos, had a profound impact on how people

tried to persuade others throughout history.

In the martial arts community, pathos, ethos, and logos, we're all employed at different

points in time when trying to persuade outsiders as to which fighting style was most effective.

As Alan Farrington and Sasha Myers highlight in Bitcoin is Venice, initially the martial arts

community relied on pathos. Starting in the 1960s, Hollywood movies showcased dramatized

fight scenes to play on audience's emotions and convinced them that one way of fighting was

better than another. Following this, the community reoriented to focus on ethos or appealing to an

authority figure such as a sensei or teacher. It wasn't about what techniques were the best,

it was about respecting tradition and listening to the masters.

Unfortunately, neither pathos nor ethos allowed one martial art to be tested against another.

We didn't know if karate was better than kickboxing or judo was superior to taekwondo.

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