Episode 26: Michael Chandler—MMA World Champion

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Despite an impressive record and three Bellator World Championship titles, Michael Chandler knows what it feels like to lose. Once going 688 days without an MMA victory, he made the aggressive choice to keep pressing forward. This time in his career forged him. The wisdom and lessons he learned will prepare you for the most important fight you're in: your life.

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0:00.0	In the long run, passivity won't pay off. It never pays off. If you want a life of meaning and transcendence, you're going to have to move.
0:17.3	Aggression doesn't have to be toxic or damaging. Healthy aggression risks.
0:22.2	It builds new things.
0:23.5	It breaks through barriers.
0:25.0	It's the key to living a life that matters.
0:28.3	I'm Brian Tome.
0:29.3	This is the aggressive life.
0:36.9	Music Fighting.
0:45.3	Everything in your life is a fight.
0:49.3	It might not surprise you to know that I am not a pacifist. I am not a pacifist. I also don't get
1:00.4	offended or bothered by all the violent acts that are in the Bible. Those violent acts certainly
1:09.4	are challenges to many people's faith. Those violent acts certainly are challenges to many people's faith. Those violent acts
1:13.7	certainly need to be examined and talked about them. I'm not trying to say, hey, we shouldn't be
1:20.1	thinking about them or talking about them. No, they're big, big deals for a lot of people.
1:23.1	But personally, violence has always been something that's happened in our world. Always. It's just
1:29.2	part of life. I don't like that violence is in life, but it is just a part of life. And so many things
1:36.0	in the physical realm mirror those things that are in the spiritual realm. When you're in a physical
1:41.9	fight, it is all consuming. And everything that is before you is the only thing that matters.
1:48.2	You just get tunnel vision for that thing.
1:50.8	That is the same thing with the spiritual realm.
1:54.3	All of us are in a spiritual fight.
1:57.7	All of us have something that's trying to smack us down. A failure we can't get
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