he’s one to do it, but in a hopefully non-condescending way or anything. just like “you’re going through some stuff,I get it, but...” so on and so forth with hopes he can maybe focus said impulse and therein x-factor to be even MORE awesome.
i suspect he could’ve! he has been there for quite some time, seen a lot of stuff, and at the time would’ve been both impressed and “slow your roll, man, it was just training” before knowing it an x-factor thing.