After many years of researching the art and knowledge skill sets of survival, I have noticed that many people overlook one of the most critical tools needed to be able to give them a probabilistic advantage when it comes to survival. The greatest survival tool a person can use in all situations is their mind. A fascinating statistical fact, that I recently learned while studying to complete an essay for a college course, is that only 2% of all college students actually know how to learn. Learning how to learn is probably one of the most important skill sets that a person can use to give them an extreme advantage when it comes to surviving a TEOTWAWKI circumstance. The ability to be able to rapidly and efficiently learn a new knowledge set is critical, in terms of survival. As I would like to see (intelligent, good) people survive the coming catastrophes, I have composed a list of courses that will not only teach you how to learn to the best of your ability but specialized programs that are currently used in the training of intelligence acquisition and analysis students, that can train you to use your mind in ways that are simply unimaginable, putting you in the top 1% in the world of mental skill use, regardless of your educational background or the so-called IQ ratings.
To begin with I must state that to be successful in these programs you must actually study and apply them. Like spiritual and physical health, mental exercise requires discipline and endurance. My experiences have shown me that to increase mental cognitive function, is actually harder than physical training for most people. Once completed, as hard as it is to believe, you will be able to perform the following mental feats:
1. Have the ability to read, learn, and retain a scientific textbook within two weeks with a complete understanding of its contents.
2. Learn how (and when) to speed read up to 2000 words per minute and to be able to use power reading and power writing techniques.
3. Increase your memorization skills close to and even to Eidetic levels.
4. Learn how to correlate these mental feats into physical applications with your body.
5. Learn how to truly multitask by being able to actually do more than four actions simultaneously, including physical actions.
6. Increase your intuitive mental powers by at least 75%
7. Be able to make the best decision in all circumstances, while under pressure.
This is just a small sample of the abilities one can obtain by studying these programs. I have also included my opinions on some of the best physical training programs available as it has been shown that this is also critically important to be able to achieve the best mental capability possible. I have used the philosophy of Jeet kune Do to modify a lot of these programs and what I feel is the most efficient and superior form possible. I have not included my personal modifications, as they are extensive and detailed, but the base programs that I reengineered my programs for our sufficient to be able to take you to levels that you would not believe you could do otherwise.
Of all the “learning how to learn” programs, the person who I have felt has done the best research and gives you a step-by-step simple course in doing so is Brian Tracy’s Accelerated Learning Techniques. This course includes all the refinements of studies done over the years on how to learn and includes excellent techniques from neurolinguistic programming and the best pedagogical training methods. As a side note I wish to mention that Neurolinguistic Programming Techniques will help in all assets of communications and self-improvement; it really does work if applied. The next course that I absolutely recommend comes from a website that I recommend for all those wishing to truly be a step above the herd (as Nietzsche would say). The program is called the Harry Kahne’s Multiple Mentality course. This course, if followed through with, will give you abilities that most people would consider almost superhuman. It is available for free on the website of Rex research.com. I know that once the readers of this blog look on Rex research they will become addicted! This website contains suppressed and unused inventions and ideas that can make the difference when it comes to survival. I encourage people to support this website with donations, along with of course SurvivalBlog.com, simply because these kind of websites are critical when it comes to knowledge sets and ideas to be able to be ahead of the curve. (I am not affiliated with either Rex research.com or SurvivalBlog.com. I simply feel that the people that have created these websites do an incredible amount of research and work, and we must keep these kind of websites going to be able to keep on top of our game.) The other knowledge skills that one should study that will help immensely is our the mathematical hypothesis of game theory and decision theory. You do not need to be a mathematical wizard to be able to understand the basics of these knowledge skill sets. You can learn both in less than a week, with an hour study a day. Finally, I feel that everyone who is serious about being able to survive, should study all of Robert Greene’s books, including The 48 Laws of Power , The 33 Laws of War, and Mastery at a minimum. Of course we should also study the works compiled by Mr. Rawles. By far his research into the art and knowledge skill sets of survival are currently the best and most up-to-date on the market. (Kurt Saxon comes in a very close second.) By simply doing these four things, you will put yourself into a position where you can literally outthink and outperform 99% of the rest of the world and thereby increase your chances of survival immensely.
As for physical health, there is so much on the market that can be used, but it can be a little overwhelming. Of course I recommend martial arts as a primary physical health program. I highly recommend that any physical exercise program be geared toward something useful in survival, such as rock climbing or martial arts. Jogging on a treadmill is not nearly as useful as endurance swim. You get the idea. My particular physical training is based on the philosophy of JKD, which integrates a variety of what I feel are the best of the combative martial arts. This would include a modified form of Bikram yoga for my stretching, the study of ninjutsu, dirty boxing, inside the crucible, and once a week stepping into a ring to apply MMA training. I wish to note that I’m not a big fan of sports martial arts, as I feel that it teaches the body and mind to react in a noncombative way, but MMA training is about as close to actual combat for sport as you can get and gives you the opportunity to actually step in and experience fighting.
To be honest I have so much knowledge that I would love to share and a lot of comments about some of the things I’ve read on SurvivalBlog.com and other places. I find that a lot of people are mistaken, when it comes to actual facts and statistics on a lot of different subjects. I simply do not have the time to be able to correct all of these people in their (sometimes lethal) errors and still be able to study, research, and prepare everything that I need to do in my life. I wish to note, that like James Wesley Rawls, I have throughout my life been involved with the intelligence community. This has given me some advantages when it comes to the actual facts of certain critical issues that are not generally available to the public. (Most of these subjects are still classified, but general knowledge is available publicly, and therefore I am comfortable with speaking about them in general concepts, without compromising national security or getting in trouble.) One of the biggest errors I’ve seen people speak on is electromagnetic pulse and its effects. The majority of information available on the effects of electromagnetic pulse is either outdated and/or publicly-run scientific experiments that do not correlate with actual modern weapon HEMP affects (Cold War era results, etc.). The real data is still classified. Modern research into electromagnetic pulse and ionizing weapons has proceeded at an extraordinary rate by all of the world’s players. These modern weapons have been specifically produced to create affects that are 10 to 3000 times more powerful than a neutron weapon. They have been created to specifically destroy hardened vehicle and electrical systems. Some of these weapons are specialized nuclear explosives with exotic casings to produce their affects. Other weapons in this category are directed energy weapons that can be used from a mobile platform to be able to direct its effects into a particular area circumference. Take from this what you will. While on the subject of these styles of weapons, I wish to state it is possible for the astute prepper to be able to take advantage of the use of electromagnetic pulse weapons for his own defense. These are legally available (for now, though I’d be careful) for scientific research and are moderately priced. Also available (as a combat multiplier) for crowd control are the use of ultra and infrasonic determent devices. For the DIY crowd, who have the scientific and engineering technical skills to do so (I sure hope you have a couple of these in your prepper group!), all of these products can be made fairly cheaply or they can be purchased for moderate price. It’s one thing to fire your machine shop belt fed AA12 (Atchisson Assault Shotgun) into a golden horde of rioting looters. (You do have a machinist/metallurgist in your group with full blueprints right?) It’s quite another to have an absolutely silent infrasonic determent device disguised as a rock or tree to deter them without them knowing it. A lesson from ninjitsu, in most situations silence and invisibility is much better than a direct attack. Of course the next line of defense is superior and cheap homemade smoke grenades with some added cheap chemicals (for informational purposes only) ie: Chloracetophenone and Diphenylcynarsine. You or your chemist can easily produce these highly-effective, yet nonlethal (in open areas), deterrences. (You do have a chemist or chemistry skills in your proper group right?) Then if we really have to, we can open up with conventional weaponry on the Golden horde to protect those we love. I wish you the best. God bless.
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