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[February 5, 2015] How to Develop the Situational Awareness of Jason Bourne
The Art of Manliness ^ | February 5, 2015 | Brett & Kate McKay

Posted on 07/15/2016 6:24:18 AM PDT by combat_boots

There’s a scene at the beginning of The Bourne Identity where the film’s protagonist is sitting in a diner, trying to figure out who he is and why he has a bunch of passports and a gun stashed in a safety deposit box. Bourne also notices that he, well, notices things that other people don’t.

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That superhuman ability to observe his surroundings and make detailed assessments about his environment? It’s not just a trait of top secret operatives; it’s a skill known as situational awareness, and you can possess it too.

As the names implies, situational awareness is simply knowing what’s going on around you. It sounds easy in principle, but in reality requires much practice. And while it is taught to soldiers, law enforcement officers, and yes, government-trained assassins, it’s an important skill for civilians to learn as well. In a dangerous situation, being aware of a threat even seconds before everyone else can keep you and your loved ones safe.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: awareness; selfdefense; shtf; situational; situationalawareness; survival; wot
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To: combat_boots

Good article. Situational awareness is the first rule of self defense.


21 posted on 07/15/2016 7:07:42 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: FreedomPoster

Thanks.
In the Era of Baraq, we all need to be very careful.


22 posted on 07/15/2016 7:08:35 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: NorthMountain

Ever see Seinfeld say the exact same thing to actors, right to their faces?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsoEJquVrDw

Priceless.


23 posted on 07/15/2016 7:11:06 AM PDT by Claud
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To: combat_boots

I think it was the Chinese philosopher Mencius (a follower of Confucius) who said: “you don’t need to speak (to me). What you are is already screaming at me.”


24 posted on 07/15/2016 7:11:19 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: minnesota_bound

I try not to notice Matt Damon.


25 posted on 07/15/2016 7:13:58 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: wally_bert

If it wasn’t for people mentioning him on FR, I’d have no idea who the guy is LOL


26 posted on 07/15/2016 7:14:46 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: combat_boots
How to Develop the Situational Awareness of Jason Bourne

Have someone throw a bag over your head and throw you in a tank of water. That was his whole training program. $30,000,000

27 posted on 07/15/2016 7:17:13 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft.)
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To: combat_boots
While I cannot claim to have Jason Bourne's SA (situational awareness), I do believe mine is heightened due to having been robbed once in a store where I worked. It was a situation in which everyone was forced to lie face down on the floor while our valuables were taken by the armed thieves (this was over 30 years ago, so they could have been brothers, but not sons of Obama).

Since that time, I look for perps everywhere. Like wild Bill Hickok, I like to sit where I am facing the door. I liken it to that sci-fi movie "They Live", in which the earth had been taken over by aliens who looked normal; but with special glasses, one could see the true alien's face. Being robbed at gunpoint strips a filter off your eyesight and makes things clearer.

28 posted on 07/15/2016 7:20:36 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte ('''Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small''~ Theodore Dallrymple)
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To: minnesota_bound

Matt Damon has well armed bodyguards to take care of situational awareness.

Pray America wakes


29 posted on 07/15/2016 7:23:16 AM PDT by bray (Trump/Palin 2016)
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To: combat_boots
I practice it as much as I can when I am out and about. But usually, my wife is talking and she gets perturbed because she thinks I'm not paying attention to her.

</sarcasm>

30 posted on 07/15/2016 7:27:14 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Blue on Black, match on a fire)
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To: Paulie

Double bookmark


31 posted on 07/15/2016 7:28:40 AM PDT by Dacula (Southern lives matter!)
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To: combat_boots

More like situational awareness of a lefty socialist hypocrite like Matt Demon.


32 posted on 07/15/2016 7:40:13 AM PDT by Cats Pajamas (Any time now Hillary will be bring out the rent-a-dogs and grandbabies for sympathy!)
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To: showme_the_Glory

That’s a must read for everyone.


33 posted on 07/15/2016 8:06:31 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Sans-Culotte

I’m sorry but also glad that happened to you in a way that you survived.

Nothing like bad things happening to you to make you ‘think street.’


34 posted on 07/15/2016 8:17:52 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: Augie; appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...
Prepper Ping

Situational Awareness (learning/ develop the skill )

and overcomming "Normalcy Bias" ( with additional thread hotlinks)

35 posted on 07/15/2016 8:40:43 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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To: combat_boots

Matt Damon is a liberal actor. He has no awareness. It was just a movie.


36 posted on 07/15/2016 8:41:45 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: CodeToad

True, but the actual points on situational awareness, as listed/discussed in the article, are valid.


37 posted on 07/15/2016 8:44:29 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: combat_boots

When you start by using a factional fantasy as a basis for reasoning...


38 posted on 07/15/2016 8:45:57 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: showme_the_Glory

That’s a must read for everyone.


39 posted on 07/15/2016 8:46:20 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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“The Tao of Boyd: How to Master the OODA Loop”
http://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/09/15/ooda-loop/


40 posted on 07/15/2016 8:52:25 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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