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164: Psychological Attributes For Winning. "Psychology For The Fighting Man"

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The Importance of Habit Formation in Combat

In war games, the soldier gets conditioned to all sights and sounds of battle. Drill is good training for better habits than lecture about a bullet. Men who have never distinguished themselves in training camp may become fired with new spirit when going,. When the going gets tough, astounding themselves and other men with what they can do in extreme emergency. So that's obviously important too. Even though you know someone, you don't even know them. You might have somebody that freaks out when things go sideways. A real bullet forms much more thoroughly drilled habits than lecturing about abullet. That would work for brand new problems but it won't work forBrand new problems. We train our guys how

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