“With special ops,” Tyler told me, “it’s not people who are the absolute best at any one thing but people who are really good at a number of things. That means you have to be adaptable, because no one is good at everything. “People tend to think Darwin said, ‘Only the strong survive.’ That’s not what he said. Darwin said the number one survivability trait is adaptability. Adaptability is what will get you through these selection processes. Adaptability is the ability to recognize the construct and working mechanisms of a system, figure out how it works, adapt to it, and then adapt it to your
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