Dr. Nate Zinsser
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first heard Sep 2024
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They serve a minimum of five years.
Some of them go on to serve 10, 20, 30 years and reach very high ranks in the army.
Others leave after five or 10 years and take leadership roles in the private sector and civilian governance.
My work at West Point, 30 years directing
a performance psychology program was to take what we knew from sports science about the intangibles of human performance and take them out of any kind of mysterious or intangible framework and reduce them to learnable, practicable skills.
So we were teaching cadets the how
to remain confident when the crap hits the fan, which it always does, how to be focused on what's important, even though there are a million distractions, and how to retain energy and awareness and enthusiasm despite tons and tons of physical, mental, and emotional stress.
So when there's a curriculum that we established, which
It's been going on in West Point for over 30 years now, and it's been exported to various units outside of West Point, different Army posts around the country and around the world.
What is it that creates confidence in the brain?
Well, the only thing that creates anything in the brain are clusters of neurons that fire together.
Right.
And what we all have in our brains are clusters of neurons that fire as a result of, and as a cause to certain thoughts and memories and experiences.
And if you get your brain continually firing those particular clumps of neurons, it just becomes your brain's default habit.
And so you find yourself engaged rather than hesitant.
You find yourself excited rather than apprehensive.
And it's simply because you have trained yourself to think and think in one way only.
And because you have been thinking in one way,
you have literally done some physical rewiring of the gray matter between your ears and the gray matter that goes down your spinal cord.
Yeah.
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