This is the Jocko unravelling podcast number 41 sitting here with Darrell Cooper and me

Jocko Willink

What miss Ratchet is your opinion of the new patient? I mean, gee, he's good looking and friendly and everything,

but in my humble opinion, he certainly takes over.

The big nurse tests a needle against her fingertip. I'm afraid she

stabs the needle down in the rubber-capped vial and lifts the plunger. That is

exactly what the new patient is planning to take over.

He is what we call a manipulator, Miss Flynn, a man who will use everyone and everything

to his own ends.

Oh, but, I mean, in a mental hospital, what could his ends be?

Any number of things.

She's calm, smiling, lost in the work of loading the needles.

Comfort and an easy life, for instance,

the feeling of power and respect perhaps monetary gain perhaps all these things

Sometimes a manipulator's own ends are simply the actual disruption of the ward for the sake of disruption.

There are such people in our society.

A manipulator can influence the other patients

and disrupt them to such an extent

that it may take months to get everything running smooth once more.

With the present permissive philosophy and mental hospitals,

it's easy for them to get away with it.

Some years back it was quite different. I recall some years back we had a man

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