The Centurion Method

I recently came upon the full book version of The Centurion Method. It is a great read. The PDF I originally had posted in the Fitness page wasn’t complete, so I’m scanning the reproducible and relevant sections of the book now. Find it here.

Brains, Brawn, Balls and Business Sense. The four B’s.

This phrase resurfaced today while I was reading The Centurion Method. I thought it was my own creation but apparently Nicholas Taleb coined the phrase a year or two ago. It is a pretty good summation of the core areas of development that men should work on. I would just add something like charisma or leadership (what’s a good word that starts with B?) to the original four. Leadership may just be the maturation and combination of brains, brawn, balls and business sense. Who knows.

Most men are naturally superior in at least one or two of the above. They spend the rest of their life working on the other ones.

For myself, I feel that I have more balls than the average man with brains coming in as a close second. I struggle with the brawn and especially buisnese sense part of life. I don’t like working out or thinking about money, so I don’t do it very often. And I am weaker because of this. You are what you continually do–or don’t do.

As Cormac McCarthy says,

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday dont count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.