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Originally Posted by HOLLiS
Maisy let my add some thoughts; to over come ones natural reaction to FEAR, is where training and experience comes in. One reason the military drives a trainee hard, with out sleep, in crappy conditions and under stress is to help that person learn a better way to deal with their FEAR, give them the self confidence to survive, and hopefully to come home.
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Sorry, I'm not Maisy, but:
Lets take this down to the "civilian" aspect. I think that's why someone "bumped" this topic.... to let it morph into the the civilian application.
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Under extreme stress a person can become very cool and deliberate in action, but that is learned response.
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Is it?
I ask this honestly.... because I remember being in a situation when I was 12 years old, where everyone else fell apart, and I instead became pretty rational and focused. No one trained me. It just happened. And it has happened a few times since then.
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BTW there are types of fear, Objective and Subjective.
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This is very important. Can you expand on it more? I think it's the crux of the matter. I also think we (as a society) tend to blur the lines between "anxiety" versus "fear". Anxiety I have found can leave you in a state of non-action. You are apprehensive and still assessing the situation. Fear, I find, promotes action... it's a survival instinct and it MOVES you... in one way or another.
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I don't know if a person can "learn" how to act in that situation, or it is more innate. The desire to survive in not that same in all of us, from my experiences.
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This is the million dollar question. Why is that desire not the same in all of us?
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