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Judo Business Strategy: Techniques for Beating a Stronger Opponent
Judo Business Strategy: Techniques for Beating a Stronger
Opponent
The idea of judo economics, building on analogies with the
sport of judo, has been around for at least 20 years. But taking these ideas
further to judo strategy means that a framework of strategic principles can be
developed to help companies put stronger opponents on the mat.
One
important not judo business technology is “If a challenger tries to capture the entire
market, the incumbent will fight back – and probably win”
The
following tactics can be used in a Judo Business Strategy:
Technique no. 1: the “puppy dog ploy”
In any kind of competition, your first goal is to stay in
the game. So judo strategy counsels’ challengers to keep a low profile and
avoid head-to-head battles that they’re too weak to win. This advice goes
against the grain for many managers. In a crowded marketplace, it’s often said,
you have to shout to be heard.
Technique
no. 2: define the competitive space
While
the puppy dog ploy is largely about defense, with this next technique, offence
comes into play. Here’s where you seize the initiative by defining a
competitive space where you can take the lead. Most champions rise to the top
by learning to excel at a few key skills – shoulder throws, for example, or
cutting costs.
Technique
no. 3: follow-through fast
By
combining the first two movement techniques, you create a window of
opportunity. Next, you need to use this opening to strengthen your position
through continuous attack. One day soon – and these days, that’s sooner than
ever – your competitors will see through the puppy dog ploy, rise to the
challenges of a new competitive space and seek to bring the advantages of
superior size and strength into play.
Technique
no. 4: grip your opponent
By
gripping an opponent early, you may succeed in pre-empting competition:
securing victory, in essence, by making it unnecessary to fight. You can also
build relationships with current or future rivals that limit their room for
manoeuvre or allow you to benefit at their expense. Both moves will undercut
their future ability to attack.
Technique
no. 5: avoid tit-for-tat
Through
gripping you can sometimes alter a competitor’s incentives sufficiently to head
off a battle. Often, however, despite your best efforts, a rival company will
eventually decide to attack. Once this happens, keeping your balance is a
challenge.
Technique no. 6: push when pulled
Gripping
your opponent and avoiding tit-for-tat help you minimise the prospect or impact
of a competitor’s attack. With push when pulled, you go one step further by
using your opponent’s force or momentum to your advantage.
INFINITUM INC Judo Business Strategy
Judo Business Strategy
A
plan for managing a company by using speed and agility to mitigate the effect
of its competitors, as well as to anticipate and take advantage of changes in
the market through new product offerings. The judo business strategy consists
of three components: Movement (using the smaller size to act quickly and
neutralize a larger competitor's advantages), balance (to absorb and counter
the competitor's moves) and leverage
(using the competitor's strengths against it).
“A judo combatant uses the weight and
strength of his opponent to his own advantage rather than opposing blow
directly to blow”
“What judo strategists try to avoid are
sumo matches, in which combatants go head-to-head”
"The
term has become popular in the small business community that a small company by
the name of Judo Financial Consultants successfully adopted this strategy with
its focus centered around 'movement, balance and leverage'. Although the
company was later merged with another small firm, Infinitum, Inc., the model
still remains intact as the size of the organization aligns directly with this
strategy. Larger organizations in direct competition with Infinitum, Inc. will
still have difficulty implementing this practice as Infinitum, Inc. can quickly
accommodate other businesses by utilizing its collaborative outsourced
services."
Judo Business Strategy: Techniques for Beating a Stronger
Opponent
The idea of judo economics, building on analogies with the
sport of judo, has been around for at least 20 years. But taking these ideas
further to judo strategy means that a framework of strategic principles can be
developed to help companies put stronger opponents on the mat.
One
important not judo business technology is “If a challenger tries to capture the entire
market, the incumbent will fight back – and probably win”
The
following tactics can be used in a Judo Business Strategy:
Technique no. 1: the “puppy dog ploy”
In any kind of competition, your first goal is to stay in
the game. So judo strategy counsels’ challengers to keep a low profile and
avoid head-to-head battles that they’re too weak to win. This advice goes
against the grain for many managers. In a crowded marketplace, it’s often said,
you have to shout to be heard.
Technique
no. 2: define the competitive space
While
the puppy dog ploy is largely about defense, with this next technique, offence
comes into play. Here’s where you seize the initiative by defining a
competitive space where you can take the lead. Most champions rise to the top
by learning to excel at a few key skills – shoulder throws, for example, or
cutting costs.
Technique
no. 3: follow-through fast
By
combining the first two movement techniques, you create a window of
opportunity. Next, you need to use this opening to strengthen your position
through continuous attack. One day soon – and these days, that’s sooner than
ever – your competitors will see through the puppy dog ploy, rise to the
challenges of a new competitive space and seek to bring the advantages of
superior size and strength into play.
Technique
no. 4: grip your opponent
By
gripping an opponent early, you may succeed in pre-empting competition:
securing victory, in essence, by making it unnecessary to fight. You can also
build relationships with current or future rivals that limit their room for
manoeuvre or allow you to benefit at their expense. Both moves will undercut
their future ability to attack.
Technique
no. 5: avoid tit-for-tat
Through
gripping you can sometimes alter a competitor’s incentives sufficiently to head
off a battle. Often, however, despite your best efforts, a rival company will
eventually decide to attack. Once this happens, keeping your balance is a
challenge.
Technique no. 6: push when pulled
Gripping
your opponent and avoiding tit-for-tat help you minimise the prospect or impact
of a competitor’s attack. With push when pulled, you go one step further by
using your opponent’s force or momentum to your advantage.
Thursday, 6 November 2014
Putin beats Obama again in Forbes power ranking
Putin tops Forbes "World's Most Powerful People" list, Obama in second
New
York (AFP) - For a second year in a row, Russian President Vladimir
Putin has beaten Barack Obama to the title of world's most powerful
leader as ranked by Forbes.
In
a year in which Russia annexed Crimea, stoked a conflict in Ukraine and
clinched a multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline deal with China that
Forbes called the world's largest construction project, Putin remained
on top.
It
was the third time in Obama's presidency that he has lost top billing
-- twice to Putin and once to Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
"So
who's more powerful: the omnipotent head of (a) corroding but still
feisty power or the handcuffed head of the most dominant country in the
world?" Forbes asked.
"For
the second year running, our votes went with the Russian president as
the world's most powerful person, followed by US President Barack
Obama."
The
2014 list of 72 powerbrokers was chosen to reflect one for every 100
million lesser mortals on Earth and the top five remained unchanged from
last year.
Third
prize went to Jinping, who is expected to rule for a decade in which
China is set to eclipse the United States as the world's largest
economy.
Pope Francis was number four and German Chancellor Angela Merkel number five.
Among
12 newcomers are Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, number 15;
Alibaba founder—and China's richest man Jack Ma, number 30; and Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State group,
number 54.
While
26 on the list come from the United States, Asia Pacific made a strong
showing with 19 from the region, including six from China.
The
list includes 17 heads of state who run nations with a combined GDP of
$48 trillion and 39 CEOs and chairs who control over $3.6 trillion in
annual revenue.
Nine
women made the cut -- but for the first time two women -- Merkel and US
Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen -- reached the top 10.
The entire list can be seen at www.forbes.com/power
Amnesty: Israel committed war crimes in Gaza war
JERUSALEM
(AP) — Amnesty International on Wednesday accused Israel of committing
war crimes during the war in the Gaza Strip this summer, saying it
displayed "callous indifference" in attacks on family homes in the
densely populated coastal area.
The
Gaza war left more than 2,100 Palestinians dead, including many
civilians according to Palestinian and U.N. officials. Israel says the
number of militants killed was much higher and accuses Hamas of using
civilians as human shields. On the Israeli side, 66 soldiers and six
civilians were killed.
Amnesty
said in a report released Wednesday that "Israeli forces killed scores
of Palestinian civilians in attacks targeting houses full of families,
which in some cases have amounted to war crimes."
Israel's foreign
ministry rejected the report's findings, saying the London-based rights
group "ignores documented war crimes perpetrated by Hamas.""The report does not mention the word terror in relation to Hamas or other armed Palestinian groups, nor mentions tunnels built by Hamas to infiltrate Israel and perpetrate terror attacks," the ministry said.
Israel launched the Gaza operation in early July in response to stepped-up rocket attacks on Israeli cities by the coastal area's militant Palestinian Hamas rulers.
Several weeks later, Jewish extremists kidnapped and burned to death a Palestinian teenager in east Jerusalem in an apparent revenge attack.
But the summer war was the fiercest conflict between the two sides in years.
"Israeli forces have brazenly flouted the laws of war by carrying out a series of attacks on civilian homes, displaying callous indifference to the carnage caused," said Philip Luther, Director of Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa program.
During
the 50 days of fighting, Hamas fired thousands of rockets and mortars
at Israeli towns and cities, including Tel Aviv, and used a
sophisticated tunnel network to carry out attacks on Israeli military
encampments in southern Israel, close to the Gaza border. Some of the
tunnels also had exits abutting Israeli civilian communities, giving
Hamas the ability to attack them as well.
For
its part, Israeli forces carried out sustained aerial, artillery and
infantry attacks in Gaza, many of which the Amnesty report found to be
indiscriminate.
Israel says
the military was as careful as possible to avoid civilian casualties
citing its system of providing warning to civilians that strikes on
their buildings were coming when possible.
It
argues that the heavy civilian death toll is Hamas' fault, accusing the
Islamic militant group of launching rockets — and drawing retaliation —
from school yards, residential areas and mosques.
"The
report exposes a pattern of attacks on civilian homes by Israeli forces
which have shown a shocking disregard for the lives of Palestinian
civilians, who were given no warning and had no chance to flee," Luther
said.
Chaos breaks out in London as Russell Brand joins thousands of masked Guy Fawkes protesters in dramatic Bonfire Night demonstration
Russell
Brand and Vivienne Westwood joined thousands of masked anti-capitalist
demonstrators who descended on Westminster for a Bonfire Night protest,
bringing chaos to the capital.
Scores
of riot police were on stand-by amid threats from campaign group
Anonymous that the demonstration would create a blockade throughout
London.
Officers
were forced to draw their batons as missiles, plastic cones and road
signs were launched along the Mall, while fireworks were left off in
Trafalgar Square.
The
masked demonstrators - some as young as 14 - also kicked and dragged
over security railings while chanting 'one solution, revolution', as
others daubed graffiti on riot vans.
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Russell
Brand took part in a protest outside Parliament which was orchestrated
by activists who said they intend to cause chaos throughout London
The
protest, organised in hundreds of cities around the world, saw the
activists wear masks depicting the sinister face of Guy Fawkes - a mask
made famous in the film V for Vendetta
Russell Brand criticises Boris Johnson at Million Mask March
Barricades
erected in anticipation of the protest were lifted by demonstrators as
police attempted to control scenes in Parliament Square
Demonstrators kicked and dragged over security railings while chanting 'one solution, revolution'
Officers were forced to draw their batons as missiles, plastic cones and road signs were launched
before climbing on to the base of Nelson's Column and letting off
fireworks.
They
then moved onto Buckingham Palace before hundreds of protesters made
their way through central London, going to Piccadilly Circus, Regent
Street and Oxford Circus.
They
then marched to the BBC's headquarters at Broadcasting House on nearby
Portland Place and going along Oxford Street to Hyde Park and Park
Lane.
As
of around midnight, ten people had been arrested, including three on
suspicion of assaulting police officers, one of a firework offence,
three for public order crimes and one of attempted GBH.
British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood was also spotted at the march in central London
Police arrested a man on suspicion of headbutting a woman police officer outside Buckingham Palace during the protest
Officers were forced to draw their batons as missiles, plastic cones and road signs were launched along the Mall
The
heightened security measures come as the Metropolitan Police attempted
to contact Anonymous, but no one came forward with any details
Protesters argued with riot police as they formed human barriers against the huge crowd of demonstrators
Riot police were put on high alert after warnings from the protest group that it would cause chaos in London
'WHOSE STREETS? OUR STREETS!' Protestors chant in London
The group said in its manifesto that it fights against mass surveillance, austerity and infringement of human rights.
Russell Brand also joined the London arm of the worldwide Million Mask March last year.
During
that march, energy bills were burned, fireworks were shot at Buckingham
Palace and there were 15 arrests, following scuffles with police.
He
later wrote an article saying that riots are sparked 'when dialogue
fails, when they feel unrepresented and bored by the illusion'.
Today,
it seemed the group were hoping for a similar result. On its website
before the march, one of the group members wrote: 'What I'd like to see
is a MASSIVE Anonymous blockade of London City.
'Complete physical GRIDLOCK. Only thing that gets through are Fire & Rescue and ambulances. NOTHING ELSE MOVES.'
Fireworks and smoke were seen rising out of Trafalgar Square as the protest got underway this evening
The crowd tried its best to carry out the wishes of the organisers, which asked for a massive blockade of London City
The
group - which uses the Guy Fawkes masks as its trademark - said it
fights against mass surveillance, austerity and infringement of human
rights
The
protest was held on the night of Britain's Guy Fawkes Night, and many
of the marchers wore the white masks of the man who plotted to blow up
parliament in 1605
Protesters
chanted anti-establishment slogans as they milled around, while others
climbed on to the base of Nelson's Column let off fireworks
Million Mask March protestors speak about why they get involved
The group also warned it would have 'bigger banners, louder voices, more people and a louder system'.
The London march is part of a day of global demonstrations, which include rallies across Europe, the Americas and Asia.
The
protest has led to officers from the Metropolitan Police, British
Transport Police and the City of London Police Force being on stand-by.
The
heightened security measures came as the Metropolitan Police attempted
to contact Anonymous, but no one came forward with any details.
In a statement, the Metropolitan Police said they had attempted to contact organisers of the event 'without success'.
Graffiti was daubed on a police van, while a masked protester stood nearby waving a placard
Most people protested peacefully, but some ten arrests were made, Metropolitan Police said
The group warned it would have 'bigger banners, louder voices, more people and a louder system' than last year's protest
Writing
on its website before the march, the group said: 'What I'd like to see
is a MASSIVE Anonymous blockade of London City'. Protesters waved
banners and placards during the march
The protesters came up with a number of creative ways to express their messages of discontent
The group said in its manifesto that it fights again mass surveillance, austerity and infringement of human rights
Anti-capitalist protesters held up signs saying 'Expect Us' 'We Are Anonymous' and 'We Are Everyone'
Rather than communicate directly with local authorities, Anonymous sent a message to the government
The protesters made their way through central London, going to Piccadilly Circus, Regent Street and Oxford Circus
And
it added that they have imposed Section 60AA of the Criminal Justice
and Public Order Act 1994 across Westminster between 5pm today and 2am
tomorrow, which provides powers to remove masks when police fear a crime
will be committed.
Scotland
Yard said: 'The Met Police deals with around 4,500 protests and events
every year. These can range from a single protester to hundreds of
thousands of people walking through the capital's streets.
'Officers
work with organisers to ensure that people are able to carry out their
right to peaceful protest whilst ensuring Londoners can go about their
daily business.'
Last
year’s London march saw more than 2,500 protesters take to the streets,
in a rally which saw fireworks thrown at Buckingham Palace and a total
of 15 arrests.
Rather
than communicate directly with local authorities, Anonymous sent a
message to the government, and to global world leaders: 'To oppressive
governments, we say this: we do not expect our campaign to be completed
in a short time frame. However, you will not prevail against the angry
masses of the body politic.'
EXCLUSIVE - Navy SEAL who killed bin Laden revealed: Rob O'Neill named as SEAL Team Six hero who shot 9/11 mastermind three times in head - and has already inspired series of Hollywood films
The Navy SEAL who shot Osama bin Laden dead in the special force's most famous operation can be named today.
The
Navy hero is set to give a full interview to Fox News later this month
and waive his anonymity but MailOnline has established that he is Rob
O'Neill, a highly-decorated veteran who quit after 16 years service.
In
an exclusive interview Rob's father, Tom O'Neill, tells MailOnline,
'People are asking if we are worried that ISIS will come and get us
because Rob is going public. I say I'll paint a big target on my front
door and say come and get us.'
Rob
O'Neill, 38, is a former member of SEAL Team Six who has been portrayed
on screen in Zero Dark Thirty, Captain Phillips and Lone Survivor.
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In
action: A rare picture of O'Neill as a serviceman shows him in uniform
in Liberia, where the Navy was involved in operation to stabilize the
war-torn country
Hometown
boy: Rob O'Neill is a native of Butte, Montana, and joined up after he
was jilted by a sweetheart. He remains proud of his roots in the West
New
role: O'Neill is now a regular motivational speaker and spells out a
message about planning and training meaning it is possible to execute
He
is one of the most distinguished members ever of the elite force - but
now faces being frozen out of its circles for revealing its most
closely-held secrets.
O'Neill
was personally congratulated for killing bin Laden - in his account at
close range with three shots to his forehead - during the SEAL raid on
Abbottobad, in Pakistan, on 2 May 2011.
Questions
have previously been raised over the exact narrative of how bin laden
came to die, although the dispute centers on an alternative account
which claims O'Neill shot him once, leaving him mortally-wounded and the
terrorist was killed by two other SEALs with further shots to the chest
rather than forehead.
O'Neill's
decision to speak out was prompted by losing some of his military
benefits by quitting the SEALs after 16 years rather than staying for a
full 20 years of service.
Today details of his extraordinary military record can be disclosed.
O'Neill grew up in Butte, Montana, a former copper mining boomtown that has now fallen on hard times.
Tom
O'Neill lives in a single story home with a garage full of stuffed
animals — including a bear, moose, caribou, big horn sheep and several
deer — shot by the two men. A full stuffed kodiak bear has place of
pride in his living room.
O'Neill
has said the basic reason he became a SEAL was a teenage romance gone
wrong. At 19 he went to a Navy recruiter's office in an attempt to get
over his lost love.
But
his father gave a different story in his exclusive interview with
MailOnline. 'We were going hunting and a friend asked us to take a guy
who was a Navy SEAL with us,' said Tom O'Neill, 65. 'We were expecting
someone who was 6 ft. 8 in. who could lift a house with his bare hands,
but he was this normal guy. And Rob said if this guy could be a SEAL,
then so could he.'
In
total he was deployed on more than a dozen tours of duty in active
combat, in four different warzones, including Iraq and Afghanistan.
In the course of those tours he undertook more than 400 separate combat missions.
Britain to 'step up' military presence in Iraq with extra troops to help local forces in fight against ISIS
Extra British troops are to be sent to Iraq to help in the battle against ISIS extremists, the government announced today.
Defence
Secretary Michael Fallon said the UK was 'stepping up' its military
presence after a 'small specialist' team was sent to instruct Peshmerga
in the northern city of Erbil last month.
UK
forces will offer further training to Iraqi soldiers and Kurdish
Peshmerga fighters, Mr Fallon said during a visit to Iraq today.
Defence
Secretary Michael Fallon announced UK forces will offer further
training to Iraqi soldiers and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters
The government stressed that combat troops were not being deployed to take on ISIS across large parts of Syria and Iraq.
During
his first visit to Iraq, Mr Fallon told the BBC: 'We are going to be
stepping up our training effort. I can't give you precise numbers. I'm
here to evaluate training needs and there are areas of expertise,
particularly in counter-IED, roadside car bombs, where we can help from
our experience in Afghanistan.
'So
we will be putting in more training people to help at the training
centres across the country, not just in the Kurdish areas.'
Mr
Fallon, who visited British army trainers teaching Peshmerga fighters
how to use heavy machine guns given by the UK, insisted the Government
remains clear that no combat troops will be deployed to Iraq.
Under
the expansion of the training mission, UK troops will teach Kurds
infantry skills such as sharp-shooting and first aid, and more equipment
will be provided. The UK will also send advisory personnel to Iraqi
headquarters.
Pressure
has been growing to provide more assistance to new Iraqi prime minister
Haider al-Abadi as his country's forces struggle to reclaim territory
in the north and west.
The UK troops will teach Kurdish fighters skills such as sharp-shooting and first aid, and more equipment will be provided
Mr
Fallon held talks in Baghdad with the premier as well as Iraqi security
advisers before flying north to Erbil to met the President of the
Kurdistan regional government Masoud Barzani and prime minister
Nechirvan Barzani.
He
added: 'The need is now. It's a very immediate challenge from Isil. As
they start to push Isil back out of the villages and towns that Isil
have gone into they are going to need this kind of assistance with
roadside bombs, particularly to counter the terror tactics that Isil
have been using.
'So, we are looking very urgently now how we can get more training help to them in the next few weeks.'
There
are areas of expertise, particularly in counter-IED, roadside car
bombs, where we can help from our experience in Afghanistan
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon
Asked
about concerns of mission creep, he replied: 'This is a very limited
mission. The Prime Minister's made it very, very clear we are not going
to recommit combat troops to Iraq. We've been there, we've done that.
'What
we are going to do is to help the new government of Iraq and its own
army take the fight to Isil through the aircraft we have deployed in the
sky, through intelligence gathering, and through specialist training.'
British
troops were part of the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 that overthrew
Saddam Hussein, and later took responsibility for Basra and the south of
the country.
The
last combat troops with Operation Telic, as it was called, left in
April 2009, with a small number staying on to train Iraqi forces until
2011.
RAF Tornado fighter-bombers have been taking part in US-led bombing raids on IS.
But
Prime Minister David Cameron has dismissed the prospect of sending in
ground troops to fight the Islamist group, which controls swathes of
Iraq and neighbouring Syria.
Wildlife filmmaker to be EATEN ALIVE by anaconda using snake-proof suit as cameras record it all
- Naturalist Paul Rosolie will document what it's like to be swallowed whole by a serpent for a Discovery Channel special to air December 7
A
naturalist who created a snake-proof suit will allow himself to be
swallowed alive by an anaconda for an upcoming television special.
In
Eaten Alive, filmmaker Paul Rosolie intends to don the bulky suit and
then willingly feed himself the Amazonian serpent, the largest of which
can measure 30 feet long.
The Discovery Channel special,
which won't air until December 7, has already drawn the ire of animal
lovers who call the stunt an act of 'animal abuse to the highest
degree.'
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Belly
of the beast: In Eaten Alive, filmmaker Paul Rosolie intends to don the
bulky suit and then willingly feed himself the Amazonian serpent, the
largest of which can measure 30 feet long
Rosolie's custom snake suit, seen here briefly in a Discovery Channel video, is designed to protect the naturalist as he's
Not surprising, 26-year-old Rosolie disagrees.
'If u know me - I would never hurt a living thing,' Rosolie tweeted. But you'll have to watch to find out how it goes down!'
Rosolie,
who's been dubbed the 'Indiana Jones of the Amazon,' specializes in the
Amazon and his website bio says his experience also covers 'locations
in India, Indonesia, Brazil and Peru.'
Experienced or not, some have called for Discovery to cancel Rosolie's show altogether.
A Change.org petition to that effect sprung up and is close to its goal of 500 signatures.
'This
is animal abuse to the highest degree and absolutely disgusting, and
could kill the snake - an adult green anaconda cannot fit the width of
an adult man's shoulders into it's body,' reads the petition.
One man's mission to be Eaten Alive by an anaconda
New
Jersey native Rosolie, who first ventured into the Amazon jungles of
Peru at just 18, claims he's an advocate of conservation and not, it
appears, just a shill for television ratings
Constrictors
like anacondas and pythons crush their meals to death before swallowing
them. While there are many unverified accounts of the snakes killing
humans, it's unlikely a full-grown man could so easily be swallowed by
one of the snakes
Something to snack on? Anacondas usually eat wild pigs, deer, capybaras and caiman
Anacondas usually eat wild pigs, deer, capybaras and caiman.
Constrictors
like anacondas and pythons crush their meals to death before swallowing
them. While there are many unverified accounts of the snakes killing
humans, it's unlikely a full-grown man could so easily be swallowed by
one of the snakes.
New
Jersey native Rosolie, who first ventured into the Amazon jungles of
Peru at just 18, claims he's an advocate of conservation and not, it
appears, just a shill for television ratings.
'Within
the first five minutes of being in the forest, I realized that all the
hype I had absorbed as a kid about rainforests was nothing compared to
the reality. I knew that the jungle was where I belonged,' he wrote in his memoir.
'Within
the first five minutes of being in the forest, I realized that all the
hype I had absorbed as a kid about rainforests was nothing compared to
the reality. I knew that the jungle was where I belonged,' Rosolie wrote
in his memoir
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