This is the Jocko Underground Podcast number 213 sitting here with Echo Charles. We have some we have some questions from the field from the front lines

From the go zone.

The go zone. Yeah, and we are going to attempt to supply you with answers

Guidance or at a minimum courses of action to follow. All right, first question. I try to live

by letting small transgressions go, like not speeding up to cut someone off when slowing down

gets the same result. But I recently had a situation that made me question where the line is between letting things go

and standing up for myself. My wife and I went along checkout line at a busy big box store.

We got behind a woman with a few items and her husband suddenly rolled up with a flat bed

full of stuff and started unloading. I told him, hey bro, you can't just do that. He told me to shut up and mind my own business.

I asked the cashier if she was really going to allow it.

And she looked overwhelmed.

A manager came over and instead of addressing him,

he moved me to another checkout line.

I felt embarrassed afterward and realized I probably

should have let it go. But my question is, where is the line? And at what point do you stand up

and say, that's not okay? If no one confronts disrespectful behavior, won't people keep doing it?

How do you balance self-respect with knowing when to walk away?

Well, all right, let's break this down.

This is actually a very important question.

So just to clarify, because there was a part that were, okay, so he was in line,

a lady was in front of him with a few items. Meanwhile, that lady with a few items, her husband

was apparently shopping still picking up a final few items, which happened to be a truckload.

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