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Neil hit a critical point: “There are so many cognitive biases that I’m pretty convinced humans almost never act based on reason. But then that’s what makes us who we are. Why try to be something we’re not?” Neil is right. Again, from ConCom, we spend most of our time in our Monkey Brains. Being … [Read more…]
I want everyone reading this to hold up their hand. Repeatedly curl your index finger. If you can do this, you have the physical ability to end a human life. That completely removes any contention of what you ‘can’t do.’ Everything from that point on boils down to what you are comfortable in doing and … [Read more…]
Oh the wailing and gnashing of teeth of police brutality — and I quote — “all of this over a noise complaint.” While I normally tell people to watch the video with the sound off for the first time, on this go ahead with the sound. I want you to get the full effect. … [Read more…]
Going to try to capture the thought I woke up with this morning. It was about sacrifice throws, sutemi waza, and how many principles they illustrate. I just thought about linking to a video, but this is kinesthetic, and video doesn’t show the most important stuff. Principle: Balance. The essence of balance is that the … [Read more…]
When we do Logic of Violence it starts with the Violence Dynamics talk. The Maslow perspective. This gives us motivations for violence– fear (Survival level); Stuff (resource predator, Security level on Maslow); the social motivations (status-membership-territory-protocols); or pleasure (process predators, Self-actualized on Maslow.) The next is understanding the violent people have goals and parameters. What … [Read more…]
Words are powerful. The words you use can influence or even control other peoples’ perceptions. And the words you think can influence or even control your comfort level. Changing the words you use to describe a past event can change how you feel about it. Done well, it is processing. Done poorly it is enabling … [Read more…]
Please watch the video first. My first response is I think it’s staged. While it’s possible it’s not, women have different filters on life than men. This creates different actions and reactions to circumstances. First, while it’s not quite out of the question that she’d position herself like that upon walking into the elevator, … [Read more…]
The goal of this Site is to increase your Knowledge/Understanding/Intelligence (SMARTS) of the subject of Violence, Self-Defense, and Conflict Management. Increased SMARTS is directly related to your ability to quickly process and execute the connections and relationships between various concepts, principles, experiences, and pieces of information on relevant subject matter. This Site is not … [Read more…]
Rory Writes: This was just going to be an example for the last article on reframing, but it grew into an article of it’s own. One aspect of self-defense that is rarely addressed are low level predators and creeping victimizations. The low-level predators are the ones who keep their victims uncomfortable, but never cross … [Read more…]
————————————————————————————————————————————- Let’s play a word association game. Up – Down Big – Little Minus – Plus Bad – Good Negative – Positive The opposite of something negative is always a positive, right? If you thought “yes”, then you are in NOT politically correct terms “a sh!th@ad”. See how easy it is call someone names? There … [Read more…]