WW2 Man Brings Umbrella to Battle (And Somehow Wins)
I need to tell you about this British lunatic from World War II named Major Digby Tatham-Warter, and I swear to The Awesomely Bearded Almighty, none of this is made up.
This magnificent basterd shows up to the Battle of Arnhem (an actual friggin’ BATTLE with bullets and explosions and a Tarantino-amount of dying), carrying an UMBRELLA.
Not a bulletproof gun-umbrella like Colin Firth in the movie Kingsman. I wish!
Not an umbrella with a secret sword inside. Or laser-powered. Or with the tip dipped in some radioactive Amazonian frog juice.
Nope. A regular-ass umbrella.
His explanation? So his own guys could recognize him as Bri’ish.
Because apparently the British accent, uniform, and him yelling “CHEERIO, OLD CHAPS” wasn’t enough.
Seriously, I had to DOUBLE-CHECK this story was true.
He also forgot essential shlit like his helmet and radio. But don’t worry! He remembered to bring some Shakespeare, because apparently a rousing soliloquy from King Lear helps curve Nazi gunfire around you.
At one point, this maniac led a bayonet charge while twirling his umbrella like Mary f*cking Poppins.
THEN he disabled a German armored vehicle by JAMMING HIS UMBRELLA THROUGH THE VIEWING SLIT.
Picture being the German soldier inside: “Hans, I cannot see! There appears to be formal rain protection inserted into our tank! MEIN GOTT!!1”
But here’s the punchline that will make you question everything about how the world works:
Not only did Digby survive this weapons-grade insanity.
THEY ALSO PROMOTED HIM.
Why? Because here’s a rather harsh truth in life...
Leadership, and sometimes even industriousness has below zero to do with competence.
It’s more like being able to see the battlefield in a way that no one else can (and maybe bring a wacky rain-deterring device with you)
Most people are getting played their entire lives because they think persuasion and success is about having the most facts or the best PowerPoint.
They think confidence is something you earn by actually knowing what you’re doing.
Oh, you sweet summer child! lol
You absolutely MUST know what you’re doing, but if we can learn anything from Digby’s story, is that he didn’t need to shout out “I’m in control” like he was at a Tony Robbins event.
And he didn’t have to do that because he was strutting through a warzone with an umbrella like he was late for teatime at Buckingham Palace.
This man had made a complete category for himself, and that’s the only reason why history remembers him.
His body language must have been screaming “I’m so far beyond giving a feck that I’ve circled back around to supreme confidence.”
But that confidence can only come from knowledge.
And as Sun Tzu said...
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
That’s EXACTLY what I built The Knesix Code to do.
Know yourself — your blind spots, your biases, your tells — so no one can use them against you.
Read others — their real emotions, their hidden intentions, their masks — before they even know you’re watching.
And then walk into any room the way Digby walked into Arnhem: like you already own the place.
Over 3,000 people have gone through it. Three modules. Lifetime access. Ten minutes a day.
It has always been at $497. Right now, it’s $197. That ends tomorrow.
This is your chance to learn what crazy bastards like Digby accidentally figured out — except you’ll do it on purpose.
(And without the umbrella. Unless you want to. I won’t judge.)
Much Love and Bliss,
Jesús
P.S. Wednesday it goes back to $497.