Jason Voorhees
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Remember the alleyway scene in Captain America
This kind of behavior is genetic. Some people are naturally born like this. Any normal person when faced with overwhelming odds to lose gives up immediately without much struggling but for some people it is just not a choice. Giving up is just not in their dictionary.
Not everyone has the same capacity for persistence, stress tolerance, or aggression. These aren't just learned behaviors they're temperamental traits
According to studies emotional regulation, pain tolerance, risk-taking, and grit have heritability estimates ranging from 40-60%. Variants in genes like COMT, MAOA, and DRD4 influence how we respond to fear, failure, and pressure. People with certain alleles naturally have lower anxiety responses and higher dopamine-driven motivation - key ingredients in what we call "fighter spirit.
In elite sports or the military, it's well-documented that people with a naturally high stress threshold and fast recovery from failure perform better - even with equal training. So while discipline and environment shape outcomes, the baseline potential that core fire to fight and persevere.
No matter what, no matter the odds. You can beat them up, torture then, humiliate them, tell them it is over a 100 times but they'll still stand up, look you in the eye and go at it again. Until either they win or they die. This is inherited. Not everyone has it.
TLDR- The fighter spirit is 40-60% genetic and the rest environment. You can teach techniques. You can improve mindset and build discpline but you can't teach raw instinct, or the urge to keep going when others fold. That's in your blood. You don't become a fighter. You're born one.
This kind of behavior is genetic. Some people are naturally born like this. Any normal person when faced with overwhelming odds to lose gives up immediately without much struggling but for some people it is just not a choice. Giving up is just not in their dictionary.
Not everyone has the same capacity for persistence, stress tolerance, or aggression. These aren't just learned behaviors they're temperamental traits
According to studies emotional regulation, pain tolerance, risk-taking, and grit have heritability estimates ranging from 40-60%. Variants in genes like COMT, MAOA, and DRD4 influence how we respond to fear, failure, and pressure. People with certain alleles naturally have lower anxiety responses and higher dopamine-driven motivation - key ingredients in what we call "fighter spirit.
In elite sports or the military, it's well-documented that people with a naturally high stress threshold and fast recovery from failure perform better - even with equal training. So while discipline and environment shape outcomes, the baseline potential that core fire to fight and persevere.
No matter what, no matter the odds. You can beat them up, torture then, humiliate them, tell them it is over a 100 times but they'll still stand up, look you in the eye and go at it again. Until either they win or they die. This is inherited. Not everyone has it.
TLDR- The fighter spirit is 40-60% genetic and the rest environment. You can teach techniques. You can improve mindset and build discpline but you can't teach raw instinct, or the urge to keep going when others fold. That's in your blood. You don't become a fighter. You're born one.
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