Dave Wood

I need to actually learn how to control this.

Because it was, for me, how that was rippling over as I'd go into these jobs and I'd get tunnel vision.

And having tunnel vision in that job is actually really dangerous.

You have to have good peripheral awareness of what's going on because you're often running a team of people.

And so, yeah, a real light bulb moment for me because I was like, man, not once in university did I learn how to regulate my physical and mental state under pressure.

Not once.

If I think about my whole time at school, not once did I learn about stress control and how to regulate my state.

Crazy.

And so that started a deep dive into understanding this.

What's actually going on in these moments?

And I became really interested in it and started applying it into the job to give me better response flexibility, more control in these situations at work, these tools.

These practical tools that I'd apply in the heat of the moment to intercept or to control psychological stress and physiological stress.

And then, man, after 14 years in that job, I was like, I've achieved where I wanted to go with it.

I feel like I'd kind of hit the ceiling in terms of you can't, unless I wanted to go into management, but I don't think they would have had me in management for a multitude of reasons.

But yeah.

I was just like, right, I'm going to take this and transition it over into what I do now, integrated training.

And...

So, yeah, it's, I guess, a lifetime of practical experience of being in stress and pressure situations and having a background in health science.

And I think my true genius zone is understanding human behavior because there are people, I mean, I was in the bottom class at grammar.

Yeah.