Category Archive: Mindset

Woods Competency

Recently, a client made the comment that he was a “student of wilderness survival, not a bushcraft type”. This struck me as sort of odd, so I asked him a bit about how… Read More

Awareness Notes: “Satisfaction of Search” & Multiples

In a short 2010 paper in i-Perception, Dr. Daniel Simons noted the following; “[The finding] is consistent with the phenomenon of ‘satisfaction of search’—people are less likely to search for additional targets once… Read More

Observation is Important, M’kay?

There is perhaps no skill, trait, attribute, or ability of more value to survival than simple observation. If you are not aware, and you are not able to grasp the meaning of what… Read More

Will & Skill

Will; noun; (1)The faculty of conscious and especially of deliberate action; the power of control the mind has over its own actions: the freedom of the will. (2)Purpose or determination, often hearty or… Read More

Be More Bad Ass Than Jack Bauer!

It’s been asked, “WWJBD”, or, “What Would Jack Bauer Do?” – Well, after watching tonights premiere of 24 I believe the answer has been found: Jack would carry an empty, but ever so… Read More

Realistic Resiliency

“Solutions for Austerity and Hostility” – That’s what it says at the top of the page. But what does that really mean? Primarily we are interested in, and focused on, situations of immediacy… Read More

The Brave Enemy

I try to avoid rants and random thought-dump type posts preferring to focus on substantial content growing out of actual work and sweat. Typically I like to leave the mental gymnastics and thought… Read More

"Its The Tribes, Stupid"

I posted this via the oft-ignored BFELabs Twitter feed, and managed to screw up the link, so I’ll just put it here and do a proper job of it. Steven Pressfield, author and… Read More

"Women Should Be Dressed in White, Like Other Kitchen Appliances"

I think by now we’ve all heard the line that is this posts title, and know the stink it caused when the honcho of Formula 1 said it about, and to, Danica Patrick… Read More

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