By listening

to his ego he lost any real chance of getting out
the situation in tact. Part of the reason the lad had such an
over-developed ego was the fact that he was a high Damned
martial artist. Physically the lad was a phenomenon, but
mentally he was ill-prepared for this kind of confrontation.
As he said to me himself, 'my bottle went'. Actually his
bottle didn't go. I've never met anyone that ever lost their
bottle, just people that were tricked by their lack of adrenal
understanding. It is our instinct as human being to run not to
fight, unless cornered and left no other option. Do you think
our mammalian ancestors would have had any problem
running away from a sabre-toothed tiger? Do you think that
they may have worried about what their friends would have
thought if they didn't defend their honour by standing and
fighting? I don't think so.