The Game Test
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Sam Sheridan, in his book A Fighter’s Heart, talks about testing ourselves through fighting. He parallels our desire to test ourselves with the “game test” used by dog fighters (A game test is the practice of putting multiple dogs on one dog in succession to see if the dog will quit). The difference of course is as human beings we choose to test ourselves, which isn’t necessarily the case for the dogs. The point is simple, we want to know what we’re made of, so we do things that reveal our character, and stepping into the cage, in my opinion, is one of them. It is a test, to prove to ourselves that we aren’t cowards.
At least that’s how I see it. Mankind is a species of game testers, we do marathons, climb mountains, dive sixty–feet under water with no breathing apparatus just to see if we can do it, we fight in cages and rings and on mats all to test ourselves. The Maasai hunt lions as a right of passage, just a boy and a spear; it’s a show of manhood. These are tests, tests not to make you a man, but to prove you’re one.
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