R TUFF GUYS as Strong as Thay SEEM to Be ?

I remember that, in my earliest years of human life,
I accepted at face value the appearance that fellows whose demeanor
was that of TUFF guys really were of above average strength, as thay implied.
I did not give much thought to it, to analyse it, nor to challenge it, particularly.

Eventually, when I was in practice as a trial attorney,
I had a client who was in litigation with a female federal bureaucrat,
who carried herself with a tuff guy demeanor. We were in the discovery part
of the litigation, taking depositions. This is a fact-finding, non-emotional enterprize (as a general rule).

She sought to evade some of my questions. I don 't put up with that.
(No objection from counsel) I approached the same point in a variety
of different ways to ascertain her position in the matter. She continued to resist.
Of course, (I don't care about her emotions) I persisted on the point.
VERY unexpectedly, she broke down in tears from a very emotionally aggressive, combative bearing.
I was taken aback by the abrupt change.
It was a false front. I had not suspected.

Now, we have the same principle shown on TOPSHOT,
in the person of Jake, of recent departure. He presented himself
as being very self-assured; makes his living as a college athletic coach.
He appointed himself leader of one of the TOPSHOT teams,
being very free with unsolicited advice to the others.

When he shot poorly and thay voted to send him (the leader in his own mind)
to an elimination competition, he was crestfallen, very loud in complaint,
and broken hearted at their failure to accept his authority and leadership.
Eventually, he walked out, abandoning his competition for $1OO,OOO,
when he was not very far from it; emotional melt down.

This false front was also attributed to Adolf Hitler by US Army psychiatrists.

Any more examples ?

Comments ?





David