Sheepdog Tip of the Day

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When your heart is pounding due to physical exertion, your face will
usually be beet red, as every vessel dilates wide open to get blood to the
muscles. But with a fear-induced heart rate increase, your face will
usually turn white, due to vasoconstriction. If there are extreme physical
demands placed upon the body at the same time that the vasoconstriction is
occurring, then these two processes apparently work against each other to
cause a skyrocketing heart rate. Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Combat
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In his 2003 book, Intuition at Work, Klein explored a means of training for
intuitive decision making. He described a process of three key elements
that can aid in training to make decisions intuitively. 1. Identify and
understand the decision requirements of your job. 2. Practice the difficult
decisions in context. 3. Review your decision-making experiences. The
process works through what Klein calls "decision games." The idea is a
simple one: identify the critical decisions you will have to make ahead of
time and practice them. A lot of folks I know call this process "war
gaming." Christopher Brennan, The Combat Position: Achieving Firefighter
Readiness
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Sun Tzu , The Art of War: " The more possibilities you present to the
enemy, the more diffuse he is forced to become. The more diffuse he
becomes, the more difficult it is for him to concentrate sufficiently to
make a successful attack." Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Combat
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The day after a major school shooting, I was in the school explaining the
debriefing process to the teachers who had just survived that horrific
event. I explained that they should not feel guilty about any initial
concern they had for themselves during the tragedy, because such an emotion
was a perfectly normal response to such extraordinary violence. I told them
that it is similar to when the stewardess on an airliner tells them that if
there is a loss of cabin pressure, oxygen masks will drop down, and they
should put on theirs before they help small children. The first response of
the organism is to take care of itself first, and that is okay, because
that is simply the law of nature. After I explained this to those teachers,
several of them laid their heads down on a table and began to sob with
relief. They were relieved and comforted to learn that what they had
experienced was normal. Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Combat
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You must write your goal down, because the more we talk about, hear about,
write about, and read about something happening, the greater the
probability of that thing happening. That's the power of positive
reinforcement in action. Also, by writing your goal down, you're making a
contract with yourself to accomplish that goal, and if you announce your
goal to your training partner, your family, your coach, or anyone else you
respect, it can be an incentive to stick with it. Linda K. Miller and
Keith Cunningham, Secrets of Mental Marksmanship
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The only thing greater than the resistance to killing at close range is the
resistance to being killed at close range. Close range interpersonal
aggression is, indeed, the Universal Human Phobia, which is why the
initiation of midbrain processing is so powerful and intense in these
situations. Thus, one drawback to killing at long range is that greater
distance has a reduced psychological effect on the enemy. This manifests
itself in a constant thwarting of each new generation of air power
advocates and other adherents of sterile, long-range, high tech warfare,
since it is close-range, interpersonal aggression that truly frightens the
enemy and modifies their behavior. Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Combat
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Right now you have to develop the will and the resolve to live. Know that
if you keep going until medical help arrives, you probably will survive, if
you stop your attacker from shooting you again. Understand that with every
passing day our evacuation, communication, and medical technology
progresses by leaps and bounds. Today, warriors survive horrific gunshot
wounds that would have been fatal only 10 years ago. Accept that you might
get hit and know that you will survive it. Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On
Combat
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Understand deep in your being that though you are shot, even in the heart
or the eye, you can still function: You can call for help, shoot the
perpetrator and/or get yourself to safety. Know that with today's
incredible medical technology you have a greater chance of surviving than
at any other time in history. The key is to stop him from putting any more
bullets in you. In most cases that means killing the SOB who just shot
you. Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Combat
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Our enemy uses children as human shields. We are human shields for
children. Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, The Bullet Proof Mind seminar
(paraphrased)
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Many police officers tell me that they did not hear their vehicle's sirens
or the sirens of other emergency vehicles during their deadly force
encounters. One California park officer told me how he tuned out the sounds
of a helicopter hovering overhead during his gunfight. This is probably
happening in the brain, rather than as a mechanical mechanism in the ear,
and is the equivalent of aural tunnel vision as opposed to an aural blink.

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Combat

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