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 bluepri…

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 intelligen…

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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 Screen Postural Assessment Performance Testing Knowledge Baseline Tacit -v- Explicit Knowledge Dysfunction -v- Compensation Playful ReasoningBy District Combatives

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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? Video Expertise Discussion Deliberate practice involves two kinds of learning: improving the skills you already have and extending the reach and range of your skills. "H…

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. We highlight a recent figh…

Mental models are the stories we construct to understand how things work. They mirror the events or system they are modeling, but they capture only a limited aspect of those events or that system. We form mental models from the way we understand causes. The mental models of experts include more knowledge and also enable the experts to see more conn…

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 duri…

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 cr…