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Don’t Freeze in a Crisis: Steal This Special Forces Trick for Instant Courage
Maybe you’re a CEO and your costs just went up 145 percent because of new tariffs. Or you could be a translator or college professor whose job has just been radically remade by AI. Perhaps your job has been restructured out of existence.
The world offers no shortage of crises these days. How do you avoid freezing when you’re faced with one?
There’s no one better to ask than special forces soldiers, who are trained to make high-stakes decisions and keep moving forward in even the most dangerous, uncertain environments. Handily, they have a trick to clear their minds and instantly boost their courage that works just as well in everyday life as it does on the battlefield.
Special Ops soldiers train for courage
For obvious reasons, America’s elite army units haven’t been keen to have their best tricks broadcast to the world. But while they’re strict about not giving away operational secrets, they are apparently happy to share a little of what they’ve learned to help out other leaders.
Over the past four years, Angus Fletcher, a leadership professor at Ohio State University, and his collaborators have worked with the army to mine its curriculum for training Special Ops soldiers for lessons…
