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Warrior Mindset: Mental Toughness Skills to Meet Every Challenge Kindle Edition
This practical guide teaches readers to meet stressful or dangerous situations with a combat-ready mentality.
In high-stress situations—especially ones where lives are on the line—mental toughness is essential. But while many agree on the importance of this psychological skill set, few ever provide practical training in how to achieve it. Warrior Mindset explains concrete steps and techniques to develop a survival mindset and hardened focus.
This book offers an in-depth analysis of the subject. Describing the importance of mental toughness and presenting a method for readying the mind for combat, this text can help foster skills that will optimize performance, success, and survival in the field.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherOpen Road Media
- Publication dateSeptember 20, 2022
- File size23398 KB
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- ASIN : B0BG56T5KY
- Publisher : Open Road Media (September 20, 2022)
- Publication date : September 20, 2022
- Language : English
- File size : 23398 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 435 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #102,744 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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- #1,879 in Motivational Self-Help (Books)
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About the authors
As a professional writer since 1978, Mr. Christensen has penned over 70 published books with six publishers, dozens of magazine articles, and edited a police newspaper for seven years. He has written on the martial arts, the paranormal, missing children, street gangs, school shootings, workplace violence, riots, police-involved shootings, nutrition, exercise, prostitution, and various street subcultures. Of late, he has been writing an award-winning police thriller fiction series called Dukkha. His short stories—OLD ED, BOSS, and Parts—are popular among fans of gritty action.
His books have been translated into five languages. Policing Saigon and On Combat are also published as audio books.
The Masters Hall of Fame inductee began training in the martial arts in 1965 and continues to this day. Over the years, he has earned a 1st-degree black belt in arnis, a 2nd-degree black belt in jujitsu, and in 2018, the American Karate Black Belt Association awarded Loren a 10th-degree black belt in karate. As a result of his tour in Vietnam and nearly three decades in law enforcement, Mr. Christensen's focus in the martial arts—writing, teaching, and training—has always been on street survival, not competition. He has starred in seven martial arts training videos.
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LT. COL. DAVE GROSSMAN, U.S. Army (Ret.)
Director, Grossman On Truth
www.GrossmanOnTruth.com
In their description of Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, Slate Magazine said, “Grossman cuts such a heroic, omnicompetent figure, he could have stepped out of a video game.” He has five patents to his name, has published four novels, two children’s books, and six non-fiction books to include “perennial bestsellers” such as:
-ON KILLING (translated into 7 languages, with over half a million copies sold in English, cited in scholarly works over 3,400 times)
-ON COMBAT (US Marine Corps Commandant’s Required Reading list, translated into 5 languages, a quarter-million copies sold in English, cites in scholarly works over 600 times), and
-ON SPIRITUAL COMBAT (a Christian Book Award Finalist).
He is a former buck Sergeant who came up through the ranks from Private to Lt. Colonel. He is a US Army Ranger, a paratrooper, and a former West Point Psychology Professor. He has a Black Belt in Hojutsu, the martial art of the firearm, and has been inducted into the USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame.
Col. Grossman’s research was cited by the President of the United States in a national address, and he has testified before the U.S. Senate, the U.S. Congress, and numerous state legislatures. He has been to the White House on two occasions, to brief the President and the Vice President in his areas of expertise. He has served as an expert witness and consultant in state and Federal courts. And he helped train mental health professionals after the Jonesboro school massacre, and he was also involved in counseling or court cases in the aftermath of the Paducah, Springfield, Littleton and Nickel Mines Amish school massacres.
Col. Grossman has been called upon to write the entry on “Aggression and Violence” in the Oxford Companion to American Military History, three entries in the Academic Press Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict and has presented papers before the national conventions of the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Since his retirement from the US Army in 1998, he continues to be “on the road” over 200 days a year, spanning across four decades, as one of our nation’s leading trainers for military, law enforcement, mental health providers, and school safety organizations.
Through his “Bulletproof Mind Resiliency” presentations, Col. Grossman has been of service to countless thousands of military personnel, law enforcement officers, and first responders. He likes to tell his audiences that, “The Bible says, ‘Greater love has no one than this, that they give their lives for their friends.’ But there are many ways to ‘give’ your life. Sometimes the greatest love is not to sacrifice your life, but to live a life of sacrifice.”
Today Col. Grossman is the director of the Grossman On Truth (www.GrossmanOnTruth.com). In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks he is has written and spoken extensively on the terrorist threat, with articles published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Civil Policy and many leading law enforcement journals, and he has been inducted as a "Life Diplomate" by the American Board for Certification in Homeland Security, and a "Life Member" of the American College of Forensic Examiners Institute.
His hobbies are jigsaw puzzles, canoeing, pistol shooting, and asking questions that no one else is asking. Like, “Why will no one talk about how it felt to kill in combat? Why do we wear neckties? And why do we mow our lawns? A hundred years from now they will say, ‘Were they all crazy? Why did they do that?’” He is a fan of the “Meadowing Movement” (something he made up completely). For all his love of poetry, he is not capable of mustering any such himself. His one bit of doggerel is:
I think that I shall never settle,
In a lawn as nice as any meadow.
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In Thor's Foreword, he quotes General Patton, "If you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do." I agree with Thor, that this is so true. When I taught at the 2nd I.D. Scout Sniper School, we used high fatigue to help train the mind, because when the body gets tired, the mind sometimes quits thinking. This book would have been a great resource back then. I wish it had been available back then, and am glad it is available today.
The book is extremely well researched, and there are numerous pages of references. The authors have taken the best from these sources and condensed it down to make it relevant, practical, and easy to digest for those that want to incorporate mental toughness training into their training regimens. And if you are a soldier or law enforcement officer, you must incorporate mental toughness training into your program. Your life, and the lives of those you work with, may depend on it. If you are in athletics or business, these techniques will also help you perform, even though it might not be life or death.
Some of the information in this book will be new to people, and some such as breathing and imagery will be familiar. (Read the book to see how they differentiate imagery from visualization, something I really liked and shared with my Hapkido class one night to reinforce some of the solo training exercises I tell my students to perform when they don't have training partners available. However, even those topics that are familiar are presented in a refreshing and practical way that is directed toward those in high risk occupations, those positions that really need these techniques and strategies to perform at their highest.
I really can't recommend this book enough. For any law enforcement officer, soldier, or martial artist, this book is a must read. For those of us who teach to the above, this book will enable you to be a better instructor as you incorporate mental toughness lessons with your physical teachings. Highly recommended!
Reviewed by Alain Burrese, J.D., author of Hard Won Wisdom From The School of Hard Knocks and others.
These books target the professional warriors of our society, the police officers who protect the streets and the soldiers who fight for their country and its values. In their own parlance, they are the "sheepdogs," guarding society/civilians/"sheep" against "wolves." The sheepdogs share capabilities of wolves in that they can be powerful and dangerous, but they use their power for the good of society. They are the ones who run towards danger, while the rest of us run from it. A sense of duty and honor pervades their commitment to their profession, but many also live their lives in this way, always aware that one day they may have to make the ultimate sacrifice.
Warrior Mindset discusses the mental toughness required of warriors, and how to attain and maintain it. It is key to develop and train that mindset, so that in the hour of need, one is prepared. As Grossman pointed out in On Combat, "You do not rise to the occasion, you sink to your level of training."
What might surprise you - although it shouldn't - is that the techniques described in Warrior Mindset include meditation, visualization/imagery, affirmations/positive thinking, muscle relaxation techniques, arousal/psyching up, being in "the zone," etc. The terminology comes in military packaging, such as Tactical Arousal Control, Stress Inoculation Training (SIT), OODA loop, etc.
There is nothing necessarily mystical about this stuff, the authors assure their warrior readers; these are proven techniques and methodologies to help you cope with the ultimate stressful situation or "condition black," when your heart is pounding so madly that you may experience tunnel vision, auditory exclusion, memory lapses, etc. At such a time, you better hope your training has built up enough muscle memory that it kicks in and helps you do the right things - within your sphere of control - to get out safely.
There is a lot of wisdom in this compact book. There are ABSOLUTELY lessons in this book for laypersons. As a matter of fact, every single one of the methodolgies also applies in the civilian world. Highly recommended.
This book does not disappoint in that area. Warrior Mindset contains numerous practical exercises for developing a stronger mind and backs each exercise with research for doing so. The book is clearly laid out and easy to follow. Warrior Mindset is directed at the armed forces, so naturally numerous examples are from armed forces or police scenarios. There are also numerous sports examples and occasionally other professions. Despite this, I was pleasantly surprised of the take-aways from each chapter as they are very much relevant to whatever field you are in, specially the practical exercises.
The only downside to this book is it is dry. The research is of huge benefit, but sometimes I craved for a more personal sounding voice to the authors. It reads like a manual. This could be a positive or negative depending on your taste.
Overall, if you have come from a world of lightly backed research books on mindset that make you feel good, but provide little practicality; this book will be refreshing. It is raw, honest, and to the point. But realize this book IS directed towards the armed forces.
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E-book has formatting issues; no spacing between some of the words/spacing where there shouldn’t be.