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RWBY Chapter 7 Episode 7

Extended Thoughts:

In this episode there is one scene that really stands out to me on a massive level which was Blake's and Yang's choice to tell Robyn sensitive information, information that they weren’t supposed to tell.  On one hand you can see that not telling Robyn was making the situation worse. There is a palpable distrust between Ironwood and Robyn and that secret was the thing that was getting in the way. I understand we're Yang and Blake are coming from.

Although the book that I'm reading currently is called Principles Ray Dalio, it is an audiobook And there are some great nuggets of wisdom inside of that book. One of the lessons that I learned was the order of consequences. There are first-order consequences second-order consequences and third-order consequences.

For example, let's say you want to workout  now. The first order consequence for most people would be discomfort,  the expulsion of energy and  a calculated strain on your body. for most people they just focus on the first order consequence which is negative ( well for most people ) .  The  second-order consequence is actually super positive: you are either losing weight, gaining muscle, and having a more healthy functional body.

The point he makes is that most people focus only on the first order consequences and not the second and even possibly the third order consequences of their actions. Which completely describes what happened with Yang and Blake. The question they might have wanted to ask is if this got out to Ironwood how would that affect their working relationship with Ironwood?

How could we ask Ironwood to trust us if we don't trust his leadership and in fact we undermined it.

Anyway, those are my thoughts over you guys have a great day