Great article, thank you.
Jason Bourne goes to a restaurant and scopes out all the dangerous people.
Me, I go to a party and look for drunk chicks.
Bookmark!
After a lifetime of military and LE service and experience, this stuff just comes naturally to me. In fact, my wife knows exactly where to sit when we go out to eat. I’m always scanning my surroundings. A few times I’ve seen individuals who seemed to looking for a victim. But once they know I see them, they lose interest in me. It also helps that I’m tall and broad shouldered and I have “that look”. I can’t count the number of times I’ve been traveling and I’m walking down the street and a hooker asks me if I’m a cop.
Good links at the end of the article for those who didn’t read it. One is an auto download, “Toward a Theory of Situation Awareness” by Dr. Mica Endsley. Dr. Mica Endsley is the Chief Scientist at the U.S. Air Force. While Dr. Endsley’s paper is pretty technical, she does a fantastic job explaining the minutia and nuances of situational awareness that helped clarify a few things for me. I highly recommend you check it out.”
Bookmark for when I’m not drinking!
That really did wonders for my situational and environmental awareness that is still with me today, even more so.
There was a cop who walked a beat outside my office.
He always looked as if he was sleepwalking, staring off into the distance.
One day on afternoon coffee break I came out my office and said ‘Hi’ as I passed him.
Without ever looking directly at me, but still scanning the street over the top of my head, he responded, “Going to get your M&Ms with peanuts?”