The Man in the Cage

Gottschall had been a wimp, not being able to stand up for himself all his life. He states that he had gotten himself in MMA because he wanted to write this book. After having been "food" to other stronger men, the desire to feel like a "man" must have rendered his desire to take up MMA. Gottschall starts the first chapter detailing a duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aron Burr who were respectively the secretary of treasury and the vice president of the United States of America. The duel was over rumors against Aron Burr. The author brings up a propositional question: Why did the two men have to kill each other over petulant and chagrining words?

Withal, could they have resolved the conflict in a peaceful manner? The author points out that there was none other way at that time because what the men fought for were not just humiliating words, but respect. In Men's World, respect means a lot more than just respect. Men fight for respect like animals do. Animals fight for food, sex, territory, and protection, all of which mean life and death. For men, respect is life and death. When a man loses respect from other men, it meant just more than being looked down. Money, women, social status, business, power -- life and death likewise --depended on one's respect at those epoch.

This principle still applies to the modern world, by virtue of stable civilized government systems, these extreme duel disappeared.

De facto Duel in different form, however, still exists in somewhat uncivilized world of prison. Much violent fighting occurs over a stolen banana. They were not fighting for banana; they fight for respect. Once you let somebody steal your banana, people will pilfer you of your food, money, and rape you in the end. Either you become their food or another "man. Providing a good number of researches and studies, the author adduce that what masculinity is and argues how masculinity has developed in human. Thus, males compete for reproduction by fighting. Females will be successful in producing offspring without competition or fighting.

Risk taking inklings, aggression, competitiveness in males are not invented, rather they have naturally grown in males and because the definitions of masculinity. It is not the result of a conspiracy by men against women. It is a real thing that has evolved over millions of years as a response to the built-in competitive realities of male life.

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The rest of the chapters are well imparting and very educational. His researches culminate in converging with his own anecdotes in fights in later chapters. Gottschall finishes the book by concluding that men fight because fights make men feel great and alive. Fighting must be deeply rooted in men's DNA. It is very recently that men are prohibited from fights. School teachers punish boys for fighting; Cops either break up fights or place the fighting citizens in jails; people recommend for psych evaluation for anger management for aggressive men. Men's instincts are suppressed.

Maybe that is why men feel joy when they fight like how their ancestors did all these years.

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I haven't quite finished yet, but I felt compelled to write a review. This book has successfully combined elements of biography, history, sports, psychology and sociology into an entertaining, thought-provoking and in depth study of man-to-man combat across time and cultures. I'm really pleasantly surprised to have come across it. It addresses and also conjures more questions that I have had on masculinity, violence, and courage.

Honestly, these have all been areas I've struggled with for most of my life: Dr Gotschall present himself as a very relatable and inspirational man, and I appreciate that. After all, it takes guts to go from writing and lecturing to ground-and-pound. I highly recommend the book to anyone who has an interest in human nature, masculinity, fighting, sociology or psychology. I look forward to finishing the book soon, and I hope that I can one day weave together art, literature and science as effectively as he has.

I also thought he had some very interesting insights and ideas on violence as a whole that fall not too far from my own views. This was a very refreshing take on a topic written about by quite a few but many of which lack either the experience or the words to truly express what it means to fight. Being from rural southwestern PA myself and a former amateur boxer as well, this book really struck home. One person found this helpful. Sign in with Facebook Other Sign in options.

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He measured them, counted the fingers, contemplated the thumb gravely and wrote several hundred words on the chart. Horace thought he recognized one of the words as "mechanical. Cowan solemnly, "we will test your mental reactions. Cowan drew forth a stop watch and spread another chart on the table before him. He boggled through a maze full of pitfalls for a tired, rattled man: If George Washington discovered America, write the capital of Nebraska in this space Now name three presidents of the United States in alphabetical order, including Jefferson, but do not do so if ice is warm If Adam was the first man, dot all the "i's" in "eleemosynary" and write your last name backward Omit the next three questions with the exception of the last two: What is the capital of Omaha?

How many "e's" are there in the sentence, "Tell me, pretty maiden, are there any more at home like you? Put a cross over all the consonants in the foregoing sentence. Now fill in the missing words in the following sentences: I was stung in the Multiply your age by the year you were born in.

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If a pound of steel is heavier than a pound of oyster crackers, don't write anything in this space Otherwise write three words that rhyme with "icicle. Name three common garden vegetables It seemed to Horace Nimms that he had floundered along for less than a minute when Mr. Cowan said briskly, "Time," and took the paper from Horace. Cowan, drawing forth still another chart, very much as a magician draws forth a rabbit from a hat.

Horace Nimms moistened his dry lips. Cowan pulled out his stop watch. Cowan as he noted down the answers. When Horace arrived at his Flatbush flat, late for supper, he did not enjoy the bread pudding, though it was a particularly good one--with raisins. Nor did he go to sleep quickly, no matter how many numbers he multiplied.

He was thinking what it would mean to him at his age if Mr. Cowan should have him put out of his cage. His dreams were haunted by a pair of eyes like those of a frozen owl.

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The next afternoon Horace Nimms, busy in his cage, received a notice that there would be an organization meeting at the end of the day. The meeting had been called by S. Walmsley Cowan, who in his talks to large groups adopted the benevolent big-brother manner and turned on and off a beaming smile.

Hammer has not been pleased with the way things are going in the company. He has felt that there has been a great deal of waste of time and money; that neither the volume of business nor the profits on it are what they should be. He has commissioned me to find out what is wrong in the company and to put pep, efficiency, enthusiasm into our organization. I have been conducting the tests with which you are all doubtless familiar through reading my books, 'Pep, Personality, Personnel,' and 'How to Enthuse Employees.

Most of you are in the wrong jobs! The men and women looked at each other uneasily. Then he went on.

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Yesterday I tested the mentality of one of you. I found that he was of the cage, or solitary, type of worker. But he was already working in a cage! Here was a problem. Could it be that that was where he would do best? Then a happy solution struck me. He was in the wrong cage.



So I am going to transfer him from a mathematical cage to a mechanical cage. I am going to transfer him to be an elevator operator. This may surprise you, my friends, but science is always surprising. This man has been working with figures for more than twenty years, and I discover by measuring that his thumbs are of the purely mechanical type, and all that time he would have been much happier running an elevator.

Now by an odd coincidence I found that one of the elevator operators has a pure type of mathematical ear, so I am transferring him to the cashier's cage. He may seem a bit awkward there at first, but we shall see, we shall see. But the eyes of the employees had turned sympathetically to the pale face of Horace Nimms. How old and tired Uncle Horace looked, they thought.

In a nightmare Horace heard his doom pronounced. His temple of figures! Walmsley Cowan unconcernedly began one of his celebrated pep-and-punch talks calculated to send morale up as a candle sends up the mercury in a thermometer. He who hesitates is lost. It may be that the humble will inherit the earth, but that will be when all the bold have died. Don't hide your light under a basket; don't keep your ideas locked up in your skulls. Let's have a look at them. You wouldn't wear a diamond ring inside your shirt, would you?

Be sure you're right, then holler your head off. Get what is coming to you! Nobody will bring it on a platter; you've got to step up and grab it. When you have an impulse, think it over. If it looks like the real goods, obey it. Nobody will bite you. Think all you like, but for heaven's sake, act! Even Horace Nimms forgot his impending fall as the efficiency expert extraordinary declaimed the gospel of action and boldness.