Thinking in Time

By District Combatives

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What's Thinking in Time about?

How to improve the quality of decision-making in very stressful, novel, ambiguous, dynamic, time-pressured situations where potential for loss of life or limb exists.

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Thinking in Time episodes:

02.06.2019
Episode 14: Selflessness & Giving
What Is Your Life’s Blueprint? Six months before he was assassinated, King spoke to a group of students at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia on October 26, 1967. I want to ask you a question, and that is: What...
11.29.2018
Episode 13: Fixed versus Growth Mindset
Grow Your Mindset Which mindset do you have (fixed or growth)? Answer these questions about intelligence. Read each statement and decide whether you mostly agree with it or disagree with it. 1. Your intelligence is something very basic about...
10.13.2018
Episode 12: Comfortability/Homeostasis
Is your training providing value commensurate with its effort and expense? Challenge homeostasis/comfortability to not just reach your potential but to build it, to make things possible that were not possible before. 50-hours to basic competency.
09.27.2018
Episode 11 Part 2: Special Guest Kelly Sayre
How to improve the quality of decision-making in very stressful, novel, ambiguous, dynamic, time-pressured situations where potential for loss of life or limb exists.
09.27.2018
Episode 11 Part 1: Special Guest Kelly Sayre of The Diamond Arrow Group
How to improve the quality of decision-making in very stressful, novel, ambiguous, dynamic, time-pressured situations where potential for loss of life or limb exists.
08.15.2018
Episode 10: 24/7 Situational Awareness
Full show note to follow.
07.27.2018
Episode 9: District Combatives System Introduction
Enough with what others get wrong or don't do. Here is what we do and why we do it. This is a broad overview. Functional Movement Screen Postural Assessment Performance Testing Knowledge Baseline Tacit -v- Explicit Knowledge Dysfunction -v- Compensation...
07.19.2018
Episode 8: Grand Strategy
What is your Grand Strategy? This episode introduces the concept of grand strategy and how it applies to you, and more specifically, to personal protection.
07.05.2018
Episode 6: So you think you're an expert?
In this episode, we further explore what defines an expert, how to acquire expertise, and the relationship of Boyd's orientation, Robert Greene's Life's Task ("The first move toward mastery is always inward--learning who you really are and reconnecting with that...
07.04.2018
Episode 5: General Discussion, Q & A, and more...
Discussion on the altercation between individual and law enforcement officer. Remember, viewing the video, what is visible in the video and excluding all else, what do you observe? Video Expertise DiscussionDeliberate practice involves two kinds of learning: improving the skills...
06.25.2018
Episode 4: Going Mental: Mental Model Application
In this episode, we provide greater color on the practical application of mental models. In personal protection terms, how it can affect your ability to prevail in a violent encounter. Remember, mental models, are comprised of your Individual Experiences, Cultural...
06.20.2018
Episode 3: Mental Models & Orientation
Mental models, like Boyd's Orientation, are informed by who we are. Mental models are comprised of our individual experiences, institutional/organizational experiences, and cultural experiences. Mental models gain sophistication and complexity as we acquire expertise. These are the two defining characteristics...
06.13.2018
Episode 2: Orientation and the OODA Loop
The OODA loop is commonly cited as a way to beat an adversary or opponent. From the military to business, completing your OODA loop faster than your adversary is cited as a path to victory. Further, Observation is cited as...
06.04.2018
Episode 1: What is Judgment?
In the first episode, we establish a working definition of Judgment and explain the three types of judgment. We use the process of analytical discovery of how to match up an understanding of facts, assessment of their relative importance, and...

What's Thinking in Time about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Thinking in Time episodes:

Episode 14: Selflessness & Giving

Episode 13: Fixed versus Growth Mindset

Episode 12: Comfortability/Homeostasis

Episode 11 Part 2: Special Guest Kelly Sayre

Episode 11 Part 1: Special Guest Kelly Sayre of The Diamond Arrow Group

Episode 10: 24/7 Situational Awareness

Episode 9: District Combatives System Introduction

Episode 8: Grand Strategy

Episode 6: So you think you're an expert?

Episode 5: General Discussion, Q & A, and more...

Episode 4: Going Mental: Mental Model Application

Episode 3: Mental Models & Orientation

Episode 2: Orientation and the OODA Loop

Episode 1: What is Judgment?