Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus's Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior (Hoover Essays, No. 6)
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"On September 9, 1965, I flew at 500 knots right into a flak trap, at tree-top level, in a little A-4 airplanet-the cockpit walls not even three feet apart-which I couldn't steer after it was on fire, its control system shot out. After ejection I had about thirty seconds to make my last statement in freedom before I landed in the main street of a little village right ahead. And so help me, I whispered to myself: 'five years down there, at least. I'm leaving the world of technology and entering the world of Epictetus' "What Epictetus [told] his students was that there can be no such thing as being the 'victim' of another. You can only be a 'victim' of yourself. It's all how you discipline your mind."
Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus's Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior (Hoover Essays, No. 6),James B. Stockdale,Hoover Institution Press,0817936920,Asia - Southeast Asia,Biography,Epictetus,History,History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical,History - General History,Military,Military - Vietnam War,Personal narratives, American,Prisoners and prisons, North V,Prisoners and prisons, North Vietnamese,Prisoners of war,Stockdale, James B,United States,Vietnam War, 1961-1975,Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975
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