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It may appear completely natural to kill, but entrenched evidence proves otherwise. While aggression is common to the human species, so are altruistic impulses born of self-awareness and identification with The Other. This is why armies from ancient Roman legionnaires to modern-day infantrymen must continuously drill their recruits and continue to condition even many of their combat veterans in murderous behaviors.

For instance, as far back as Roman times it was noted that men had a natural aversion to stabbing, preferring to slash with their swords instead. Stabbing, intentionally and intensely pushing a blade into an opponent, was usually avoided by most novices to war because, we may surmise, folks simply have an almost instinctual wish not to inflict deaths at least not at such close ranges.

After World War Two, to cite another example, studies conducted by the United States military discovered that less than 50% of all infantrymen actually fired their weapons, even when fired upon themselves. This is the reason why the primary mission of basic training in the military any military, since time immemorial has been conditioning the psychology of recruits to kill on command.

Indeed, such conditioning masks the killing act, the killing behavior, not as killing but as the obeying of a command; psychologically, one no longer kills as such but only replies to orders by pulling a trigger or pushing a button.

And the more of an interface there’s between attacker and victim the easier it is to kill. This seems sensible, naturally it’s much harder to kill somebody face-to-face than to kill him remotely thru a videolink. It is also much more dire for the murderer. And so it is that armies target their efforts on securing obedience, for military operations involve teamwork and it is the one puny link that will break the chain.

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To sell your company is one of the most gut-wrenching decisions you will ever face as an entrepreneur. Even without any sentimentality on your part – all the round-the-clock research, all the round-the-clock legwork, all that heavy lifting, now come to this, washing your hands of it all – the prospect of timing it all just right could be nerve-wracking. You’ll feel like some television game show guest, at a pivotal moment during you can opt to cash out or stay on for more.

Except it’s even worse than that! For there are a hundred and one factors involved when you want to sell your company, so many different variables at play – just like when you first started up the business, come to think of it!

And if you have any venture capital on board, good luck; your investors will usually be the first to cash out and get their cut (unless they are, rather more simply, buying out your share).

For instance, let’s say you own a full one hundred percent of your business and want to sell your company but you haven’t yet looked into what it could be worth since you’ve been too busy basically growing the business (unless you’re one of these serial entrepreneurs who love to start up companies but hate to run them once things settle down).

You’ve now arrived at one of these so-called inflection points, a time when getting the company to the next stage of success involves considerable risk and a lot of time and money. If you were unlucky enough to have desperately needed investors, you’ll need to first double revenues and pray for stable market conditions so that you can make as much money on a sale as you could have without those investors – who, remember, will want their cut first.