Be polite but always have a plan to kill everyone in the room.
I (heart) Navy Seals! 8-}
Let’s get that out of the way right away. Is my smile big enough 8-?
Ping.
Our special forces guys are flat out astonishing, in many ways. I'm VERY glad they're on our side.
I (heart) our military!
I don’t know if it is part of their training - but in any dangerous profession, such as police, one learns to carefully analyze body language, facial expressions, pitch of voice, posture, etc...
Gunfighter reflexes.
This is very interesting from the point of view of what has been called the “Telepathic-Empathic” scale. It is not ESP, but in ordinary human communication, it is the difference between “narrow band” and “wide band” communication.
A sort of common “telepathy” is the ability a lot of people have to correctly extrapolate data being given them by another person. Most often, those people who can complete your sentences when you are talking to them. They use some mental tricks to “fill in the blanks” and figure out what you are going to say.
It is very focused on speech alone, and information data in particular, and so can be called “narrow band”. Unfortunately, it has little or no error checking, which lends it to inaccuracy.
On the other side of the scale, and where these SEALs, and other elite forces fit it, is with “empathy” or “wide band” communication. They are simultaneously paying attention to all sorts of things, such as body language, speech inflection, eye movement, possibly their scent (subconsciously); and if there are more than one of them, how they are interacting with each other.
What they are saying is just another element, or part of this. From the point of view of the SEAL, for example, if they are saying that they are friendly, but most everything else is suggesting that they are not, the SEAL is going to be very alert for mischief.
Very wide band. But it would make a great deal of sense for an elite warrior to become very adept at empathy, because his life might depend on it.
Am I correct that to be considered as a candidate to be a SEAL one must also have a very high IQ?
Well?..If high IQ people are quicker on other tasks, doesn’t it make sense that they would also be quicker and more accurate with reading the emotions of the people around them?
Sheep---sheepdogs---wolves. Seals are sheepdogs trained to protect the sheep from the wolves.
"Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, speed dating, choking on the golf course, selling cars, and military maneuvers, he persuades readers to think small and focus on the meaning of "thin slices" of behavior. The key is to rely on our "adaptive unconscious"--a 24/7 mental valet--that provides us with instant and sophisticated information to warn of danger, read a stranger, or react to a new idea."
"Gladwell includes caveats about leaping to conclusions: marketers can manipulate our first impressions, high arousal moments make us "mind blind," focusing on the wrong cue leaves us vulnerable to "the Warren Harding Effect" (i.e., voting for a handsome but hapless president). In a provocative chapter that exposes the "dark side of blink," he illuminates the failure of rapid cognition in the tragic stakeout and murder of Amadou Diallo in the Bronx. He underlines studies about autism, facial reading and cardio uptick to urge training that enhances high-stakes decision-making. In this brilliant, cage-rattling book, one can only wish for a thicker slice of Gladwell's ideas about what Blink Camp might look like." --Barbara Mackoff
So .. When will they be testing the ‘Rangers’!?
“The brains of elite soldiers can respond faster to signs of anger than normal,’
This makes no sense. Is “anger” a misspelling? Did the writer mean “danger?”
I don’t recall any mission where grunts had gone out looking for signs of “anger.”
Maybe he meant “hanger.” After flying around, elite soldiers look for the signs of a “hanger?”
Could it be “manger.” After elite soldiers walked the sheep to pasture and they got a drink at the river, they respond faster to signs showing the way to the “manger.”
Unconfuse me someone.