MOTW #129: Be Well Rounded

Mind Of The Warrior

Dr Mike Simpson

Mma, Philosophy, Combat, Self-improvement, Education, Nutrition, Mixedmartialarts, Military, Fitness, Health, Society & Culture, Medicine

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Mike Simpson has served over three decades in the military as an Airborne Ranger, a Special Forces Operator, and finally as a Doctor of Emergency Medicine assigned to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Throughout his career, Mike has deployed to 17 different countries, from counter-narcotics operations in the jungles of South America, to the Global War on Terror (GWOT) in Southwest Asia and North Africa.

Along the way, Mike has been trained as a demolitions expert, SWAT Sniper, High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) parachutist, civilian paramedic, Special Forces Medic, Operations and intelligence Sergeant, and finally, a board certified Emergency Medicine Physician.

Mike is also a martial arts enthusiast, who trains in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai. His passion for martial arts motivated him to become a practicing fight doctor. As one of the foremost experts in both tactical trauma medicine and combat sports medicine, Mike is highly sought after as a lecturer and instructor, working extensively with Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters, law enforcement, and military organizations providing medical care and training. He co-stars on Hunting Hitler on the History Channel.

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1:33.4	All right, so today, here's what we're gonna talk about.
1:37.5	Being well-rounded, what does that mean?
1:39.5	What does it mean to be well-rounded, right? So there was a time in a special operations community that we started to get some creep. This was kind of just just pre-G-Watt, like late 90s early 2000s time frame you looked around and you noticed
1:56.8	That there were a lot of people in the community a lot of people in your unit that were specialists, experts, probably top of their field, in like one thing.
2:08.0	But they didn't necessarily do the other stuff well, right?
2:13.0	And this meant that they were valuable to the unit
2:17.2	for that one thing that they were really good at,
2:20.8	but not for a lot of other stuff, right?
2:22.3	And I know guys that are like, I'm friends with guys that are like that,
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