Erik Holt

driven world i mean you can you know even teaching somebody how to drive lights and sirens is a very dangerous thing because if you floor that thing and you roll it over everybody dies right so there's a there's a million haphazard ways that can harm you and so again take that energy and say this is the right way to do this you know uh going a little slower will actually get you there quicker

Yeah.

I was probably 30 years old and, you know, 10, 15 years in the fire service before I kind of like that light bulb went off.

Yeah.

We have two kind of day one drills, and it's put your mask on while you're walking, right?

And you see young kids just as fast as they can move their hands, and then they end up in a spider's web of mess, and then connect a hydrant.

Very easy operation, right?

Unscrew the cap, put the hose on.

Does it operate off the righty-tighty, lefty-loosey philosophy?

Yeah, it's very basic.

But you can see kids in that stress and that anxiety just trying to impress and trying to rush.

And then somebody like me, who's old and decrepit in the fire service, at 40, that's... Dinosaur.

Yeah.

But I can just kind of go through it nice and smooth without...

invoking any heart rate jump and I beat you on time.

Well, this is why, you know, because I'm not clanking threads and, you know, so I'm sure, uh, you know, for you guys, like in a stack, right.

You got that, you were kidding.

I need to breach something.

I think anything in that hypervigilant state is good, right?

Like you retrain your brain to be calm.