The subtitle is One Man’s Search
For Meaning Inside the Ring and the author is Josh Rosenblatt (2019).
The story really resonated with me.
The author is the typical New York hipster/artist/writer, who spent much
of his life as a pacifist, but in many ways as a compensation to avoid his fear
of getting hurt. Until one day, when he
was 33, he got bored of living life in fear, and developed an obsession with
fighting that led him to train and eventually take on his first MMA fight at
the age of 40.
When I read Skin in the Game, the line that stuck with me was
that you can only have evolution with the threat of extinction. Mr. Rosenblatt’s tale confirms that very
notion. The line from his book that I will remember (quoting
another) is that one should do “something
enthusiastically enough to get hurt”.
This book is great.
