Xenophon, the great Athenian cavalry commander, once found himself trapped in the middle of Persia, one of ten thousand leaderless Greek troops. As he attempted to rally the men who had begun to despair, who had frozen with fear and frustration, waiting for the next bad event, he explained to them the same dichotomy. He said they could choose between two attitudes, one that said, “What is going to happen to me?” And the other that said, “What action am I going to take?” A few thousand years later, in the same distant lands, General James Mattis reminded his troops of the same thing: “Never
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