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...
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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,...
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...
Elon’s Pigs, and The Old Man and His Knife
Elon and his pigs reminded me of a family story.. My grandfather Eustachio was a renowned Filipino martial artist and fighter. He killed 14 men in consensual duels in the Philippines, not uncommon in the early 1900s. He escaped from tribal police by swimming out to a...