Mind Set: The Ultimate Self Defense Skill – Podcast 322

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Mind set is the ultimate self defense skill. Learn it, use it, live it and it will make you and your family safer.

A gun and knife are only tools, your mind is the weapon, train it well.

That has been the closing of the Modern Self Protection Podcast for about eight years now. Everything you learn about self-defense should start with your mindset. Your mindset is the one skill that will enhance all the others.

You can break down your mindset into three easy thoughts.

1. It can happen to you
2. Sometimes violence is the answer / Use enough violence
3. Never give up, never give up NEVER GIVE UP!

It Can Happen to You

Do you ever watch the news at night? How many acts of violence are portrayed nightly? When the reporter talks to witnesses and victims what do most of them say?

“I can’t believe this happened to me.” Or “We live in an area where this doesn’t happen.” Or some variance of those. They never think it will happen to them or in their area.

You have to accept the simple fact that it can happen to you, at any time in any place.

I hear from so many people, “I only carry a gun when I think I’m going to need it.” I’ve got a better idea, if you think you are going to need your gun where you are going, don’t go there!

Violent attacks happen every day to everyday people in places all over the world that are “safe” places to live and work. Predators travel just like you do.

If you think it will not happen to you, you are not prepared and cannot be prepared to take care of what might happen.

Sometimes Violence is the Answer / Use Enough Violence

When violence finds you, and someone is going to kill you or your family, violence is the answer.

Those people that tell you “violence is never the answer” are full of shit. They have no idea what they are talking about and want to live in a world of make-believe.

I wish that violence didn’t exist in our world, but since the time Cain killed Able people have been dying of violence. Only if you decide to accept death at the hands of some monster then “violence is never the answer.”

But if you won’t accept some monster killing you, your family, or innocent people, then violence is the answer.

The monsters using violence on innocent people to get what they want have violence as a way of life. They aren’t like you or me. They don’t feel empathy for someone injured. They don’t care about people they don’t know dying. Even the people they do know they don’t feel empathy for. They accept early and violent death as a way of life.

You have to learn how to use violence as the answer. Learn how the monsters behave and hunt so you can protect yourself from them.

Then you have to use more violence than they are using to keep yourself from getting hurt or killed.

Never give up. Never Give Up. NEVER GIVE UP!

Churchill said it the best, “never give up!”

Once the violence starts you have to keep going no matter what. If you get hit in the face and knocked down, get back up and go after that person. If you get cut, shake it off, and cut them worse. If you get shot, push through the pain and shoot them a lot. Just keep pushing forward.

If you keep going in a fight and don’t give up, you’ll still be there at the end. Keep going. Sooner or later the other person will get tired or make a mistake and that will be your opportunity to save your life and the lives of others.

Once you start, you can’t stop. If you give up after trying to fight back, it will be worse for you than if you rolled over and died. If you fight back and keep going, you will probably be better than if you just rolled over.

Most actual studies prove that statistically in a violent crime you are better off fighting back. But statistics don’t mean a damned thing for you at that moment. There is only life and death. It doesn’t matter if 9 out of 10 people that fight back do better. What if you are that 10th person? That one that you end up dead?

You must learn the skills of violence, how it works, what the other side thinks, and get it into your mind that you will not give up. You will not be the one that is killed. You will be the one that prevails.

I will win a violent encounter.

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Stay Safe,

Ben