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May 31, 2026 7 min

Ep. 13 No Surprises Here

from The Stillpoint Podcast Hosted by Angelo Coates

Here I break down one of the most common patterns I sees in jiu jitsu — guys getting promoted and immediately posting about how they don't feel ready. It looks like humility. It isn't. In this episode I make the case that performed humility is just ego in a different outfit, that publicly doubting your promotion is a quiet way of calling your coach incompetent, and that the stoic principle of internal versus external validation is the thing most practitioners are missing when they shrink for the room. Direct, no excuses, and grounded in ten years on the mat.

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