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Yoshitoshi and the Faery Queen
Less Is More
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential —- Bruce Lee When I’m asked to prove that accelerated learning combined with stress inoculation holds up in the real world, I never cite studies and I rarely mention all the lives saved by my...
Salt, Great Food, and Revenge Fiction
In my ongoing series THE REVENGERS, the two protagonists are retired Marine Master Gunnery Sergeants from Force Recon, with a few side gigs for the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity. In their EQUALIZER like quest to balance the scales of justice by ridding the world...
Thought For The Day
FAUDA
For a fine example of superior performance under extraordinary stress, check out FAUDA on Netflix. It fictionalizes the operations of the mistavrim, the deep cover counter-terror units of the Israeli Defense Force. Similar to the "pseudo ops" of the SAS in Malaya,...
The Beauty of Aurora
This concert was live-streamed just a few days ago. It is one of the most thoroughly beautiful musical experiences I’ve ever had. Aurora is a young and incredibly gifted artist from Norway. Her music and her humble, thoughtful commentary breathe the spirit of the...
Preconscious Processing and Training Design
From Amazon: Norman Dixon's PRECONSCIOUS PROCESSING integrates data from various research areas concerned with the effects of unconscious perception and the preconscious antecedents of subjective experience. Discusses the possible nature and origin of preconscious...
Intuition, Pattern Recognition, and Cognitive Dominance
One of my favorite films is the Japanese classic YOJIMBO (Bodyguard) by Akira Kurasawa https://archive.org/details/Yojimbo\_201703 The storyline concerns a ronin samurai who wanders into a conflict between two village factions. Using his psychological skills in...
Back In Time, With Time-Pieces
Dennis Martin in Rhodesia My photo yesterday of my recently acquired watch sparked a dialogue between me and Dennis Martin, my dear friend and brother in arms on several continents. Dennis is one of the Grand Masters of WW2 Combatives and High Risk VIP training. He...