Thinking In Time

What Is Your Life’s Blueprint?Six months before he was assassinated, King spoke to a group of students at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia on October 26, 1967.I want to ask you a question, and that is: What is your life’s blueprint?Whenever a building is constructed, you usually have an architect who draws a blueprint, and that blueprint serves as the pattern, as the guide, and a building is not well erected without a good, solid blueprint.Now each of you is in the process of building the structure of your lives, and the question is whether you have a proper, a solid and a sound blueprint.I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life’s blueprint. Number one in your life’s blueprint, should be a deep belief in your own dignity, your worth and your own somebodiness. Don’t allow anybody to make you fell that you’re nobody. Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.Secondly, in your life’s blueprint you must h

Grow Your Mindset Which mindset do you have (fixed or growth)? Answer these questions about intelligence. Read each statement and decide whether you mostly agree with it or disagree with it. 1. Your intelligence is something very basic about you that you can't change very much. 2. You can learn new things, but you can't really change how intelligent you are. 3. No matter how much intelligence you have, you can always change it quite a bit. 4. You can always substantially change how intelligent you are. Now, look at these statements about personality and character and decide whether you mostly agree or mostly disagree with each one. 1. You are a certain kind of person, and there is not much that can be done to really change that. 2. No matter what kind of person you are, you can always change substantially. 3. You can do things differently, but the important parts of who you are can't really be changed. 4. You can always change basic things about the kind of person you are.

Is your training providing value commensurate with its effort and expense? Challenge homeostasis/comfortability to not just reach your potential but to build it, to make things possible that were not possible before. 50-hours to basic competency.

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Enough with what others get wrong or don't do. Here is what we do and why we do it. This is a broad overview. Functional Movement ScreenPostural AssessmentPerformance TestingKnowledge BaselineTacit -v- Explicit KnowledgeDysfunction -v- CompensationPlayful Reasoning

What is your Grand Strategy? This episode introduces the concept of grand strategy and how it applies to you, and more specifically, to personal protection.

In this episode, we further explore what defines an expert, how to acquire expertise, and the relationship of Boyd's orientation, Robert Greene's Life's Task ("The first move toward mastery is always inward--learning who you really are and reconnecting with that innate force."), and answering the question, Who you are?

Discussion on the altercation between individual and law enforcement officer. Remember, viewing the video, what is visible in the video and excluding all else, what do you observe?VideoExpertise DiscussionDeliberate practice involves two kinds of learning: improving the skills you already have and extending the reach and range of your skills."How can you tell when you're dealing with a genuine expert? Real expertise must pass three tests. First, it must lead to performance that is consistently superior to that of the expert's peers. Second, real expertise produces concrete results. Brain surgeons, for example, not only must be skillful with their scalpels but also must have successful outcomes with their patients. A chess player must be able to win matches in tournaments. Finally, true expertise can be replicated and measured in the lab. As the British scientist Lod Kelvin stated, "If you can not measure it, you can not improve it." Things to Look Out for When Judging ExpertiseIndividual accounts of expertise

In this episode, we provide greater color on the practical application of mental models. In personal protection terms, how it can affect your ability to prevail in a violent encounter. Remember, mental models, are comprised of your Individual Experiences, Cultural Experiences, and Institutional/organizational experiences.

Mental models, like Boyd's Orientation, are informed by who we are. Mental models are comprised of our individual experiences, institutional/organizational experiences, and cultural experiences. Mental models gain sophistication and complexity as we acquire expertise. These are the two defining characteristics of an experts mental models.

The OODA loop is commonly cited as a way to beat an adversary or opponent. From the military to business, completing your OODA loop faster than your adversary is cited as a path to victory. Further, Observation is cited as the key to beginning the OODA loop process and Orientation is defined as orienting towards the critical element identified during observation. This is bullshit. And I'm going to tell you why. Don't just take my word, I will use John Boyd's, creator of the OODA loops own words to destroy this gross misrepresentation. First, Observation is NOT the first part of the loop. In fact, Boyd himself states: "Note how orientation shapes observation, shapes decision, shapes action, and in turn is shaped by the feedback and other phenomena coming into our sensing or observing window. Also note how the entire “loop” (not just orientation) is an ongoing many-sided implicit cross-referencing process of projection, empathy, correlation, and rejection." [Source:  The Essence of Winning and Losing, John B

What is Judgment?Judgment is an expression of a mental activity that may be exercised with greater or less skill.What are the three types of judgment?Action Judgment: What is to be done?Value Judgment: What difference does it make?Reality Judgment: What is going on?Key Considerations:Perfect knowledge of reality is not of much use without criteria for separating the important from the unimportant.Knowing clearly what is important is not much use in practical affairs without capacity for matching knowledge to action.Initial reality judgments can be sharpened by taking care to distinguish clearly what is known from what is presumed to be true.