100: 100 Deadly Survival Skills | Clint Emerson
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On this episode of the podcast, former Navy SEAL and New York Times bestselling author Clint Emerson joins us to talk about the importance of self-rescue and self-defense, the 4 Ds of home defense, and how to develop your own personal threat protocol.
Transcript
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Unfortunately, in society today, your ability to survive has become more important than it ever has.
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So whether you're dealing with an active shooter, a natural disaster, or a medical emergency,
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your likelihood of having to think on your feet will likely become a reality.
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the wrong place at the wrong time has now become any place at any time.
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Today, he shares with us some common survival threats,
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the importance of self-rescue and self-reliance,
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and how to develop your own personal threat protocol on this, our 100th interview episode.
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Embrace your fears and boldly chart your own path.
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When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time, every time.
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You are not easily deterred or defeated, rugged, resilient, strong.
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At the end of the day, and after all is said and done,
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My name is Ryan Michler, and I am the host and the founder of Order of Man.
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and after interviewing 100 of the world's most successful men,
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I can tell you that one of my biggest takeaways
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is that I still have a ton to learn about being a better man,
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So if you want to be a better man, you are in the right place.
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Now, I've thought pretty hard about what I wanted to do for episode 100,
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and quite honestly, the thing that I kept coming back to
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and he used to tell us after we scored a touchdown
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I decided to make this show the same as any other show I've done,
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because as excited as I am about hitting this 100th episode,
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on how to mix things up a bit here on the podcast,
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Now, let's just jump right into the show today.
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and there's still a lot of you who have not joined yet.
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and it's coming up April 27th through the 30th,
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So if you're even slightly and remotely interested,
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and consulting for President Trump's inauguration.
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I think we haven't talked about it too much on the show
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and so I'm glad to talk with you about it today.
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the wrong time has quickly become any place at any time.
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And I think that is the piece that people just need to start kind of embracing and understanding that,
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And there's going to be the threat of a lone wolf or,
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want to kill a bunch of innocent people so they can make the headlines.
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So you just have to kind of embrace the mentality that now it can happen anytime,
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I think the media probably sensationalizes a lot of stuff.
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now with social media becoming a main media platform,
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we feel like we're seeing all these bad things happening,
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But the reality is bad things have been happening all the time,
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it's just much easier to kind of televise it and push it out on all the different
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then the other side of that is you have to compete with,
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the quote unquote fake news that we see so much of too.
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but decipher what's actually happening and what is not really happening.
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that's each individual has responsibility to vet the information they read and
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I get a lot of things sent to me and then people say,
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if gang members have this new tactic as part of their initiation.
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a young child on the side of the road needing help and tells you that child says,
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And then you show up to the address and you get,
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you get killed or you get beat by these gang members.
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it actually ends up being maybe more of a positive because if you run into that situation anyways,
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You talk about making sure and the responsibility we have as civilians to vet this type of stuff.
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I think we all know that now we have to give it its legitimate purpose and its,
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in vetting information or seeing what's real and what's not.
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So what I did when that came through is I literally,
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I cut and pasted the entire paragraph and then pasted it right into the Google search bar.
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And then that will automatically pop up every article using all those words and then that,
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And then immediately the first thing was from Dade County,
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And then the next thing you're going to do is you're going to look,
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And then just stopping for a second and probably just thinking for maybe 60 seconds
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Cause I know I've seen on Facebook things like,
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obviously you're talking about a hundred skills.
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This is a completely different set of skills right here and all of them are valid,
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situational awareness and then how many other skills or situations that I could actually
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are there a few baseline type skills that we should be developing that will cover
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the broadest spectrum of something that might happen?
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it really breaks down to three big things that every guy should kind of pay attention
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Then in the non-man-made is going to be your natural disaster.
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we just had that surge of tornadoes at the end of the summer.
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you're going to have hurricanes and we're moving into blizzard and the,
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the Arctic blasts that are going on across the nation.
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and the medical event supports both the man-made non-man-made stuff.
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So the book is broken out really into those three big categories so that if you
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find yourself even lost in the middle of nowhere with zero technology all the
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ransomware all of a sudden pops up on your computer,
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and then obviously prevent it from happening ever again.
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that places the responsibility where it belongs.
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rely upon first responders and the response time might not be what you need it
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of all these different hostage situations and these victims of different crisis and
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The results that came out in the most common answer of what are you going to do?
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I'm either going to be rescued or I'm going to die.
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Most of them didn't think about self-rescue or being self-reliant.
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they barricade down and they hope for the best.
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when the reality is you need to be far more offensive,
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And you've got to take some ownership in your own security posture.
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look at your surroundings and start looking for exits,
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Is this human nature or is this a growing trend that maybe we're not as self-reliant as we once were?
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everyone's seeing when it comes to any kind of event is their protocol.
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but for sure I'm going to film this and I'm going to post it.
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as we just saw in the news with the beating of that kid,
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it was all Facebook live and it was all about the popularity contest of social media
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and how many likes or whatever I can get out of this and pumping it out onto the airways
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then start solving your own problems until they get there.
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to stay alive rather than to get some accolades for what I just posted or I was the first one to break this story,
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The number of people that will put themselves at risk just so they can get the good picture,
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in the video that we had just saw that you're referencing,
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is there anything that you saw that the kid who was,
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was there anything from your perspective that he might've considered doing differently?
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I'm just curious what you have to say about it.
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preventing yourself from being in that situation from,
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What is the third party awareness in the area that you're in?
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me after being a seal for 20 years and traveling this globe,
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whether it's squatters on the side of the road that are watching you drive by,
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or it's the grandma sitting up in her window because she doesn't have TV,
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but she knows what time everybody walks by on her sidewalk every day and paying
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attention to what people are paying attention to,
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or paying attention to the people in your environment and asking yourself,
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am I a potential target where I'm sitting right now and what I'm doing?
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you got to ask yourself these questions as it relates to the people that are
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potentially looking at you without even knowing you and passing nothing but
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Whether that's in your own mind or anyone else in this overly dramatic and
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It starts with looking in the mirror before you walk out the door.
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am I wearing big iconic logos on the front of my shirt that make me stand
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Am I wearing bright colors that make me stand out?
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am I wearing things or am I accessorizing myself with things of high value that
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So it's projection and demeanor management before you walk out the door.
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but does it have to be the Louis Vuitton purse or can it just be a black
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you got to really take a look at yourself before you even put yourself in
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these environments and then prevent people from,
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You want to be the person that if for every guy that travels and sits in
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There's a lot of people that pass by that you never notice and that's who you
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who has the demeanor of don't screw with me or do you want to be completely
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I've got my hair a certain way and I'm wearing this very tight t-shirt and I
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And it's funny is like team guys or seals are notorious for this shit.
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Having something underneath that's building this true confidence versus I'm going
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to put on this persona so I can fake people out.
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you just want to be like the total wolf with the sheep skin on the outside,
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Which I think is obviously the point of the book.
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but how do you not allow this to consume your life?
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Cause we all know the guy who's the prepper or the one who just takes it to
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the absolute extreme and he's no longer functional in the rest of his life
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it's really about adopting some habits over time.
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This isn't something you just turn on overnight.
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there was a time when nobody wore seatbelts and then now you don't even
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And that's kind of what you have to do with anything security related because,
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then it's probably not very convenient to get in and out of.
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I'm going to focus on projection and demeanor management for the next couple
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of months and adopt it to where it becomes like a seatbelt and putting it
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if you slowly incorporate these things and make them all habits,
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far better than 99% of the people that you're walking around.
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another quick reminder to tell you about our live experience.
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which is going to be held April 27th through the 30th of this year,
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I talk with you about it this week as some of the skills,
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We'll be learning at our three and a half day experience in the mountains of
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So make sure you register this week because we are going to sell out.
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So you can learn more about what you're going to be getting yourself into at
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know that this experience is designed to test you.
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It's designed to push you and it's designed to help you break free from the
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working out in some breathtaking outdoor locations,
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and you're going to be leading and competing with 24 other brothers,
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all on the same mission as you to become the best men possible.
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And you're going to be learning from Navy SEALs,
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all designed to help you walk away with some actionable tools and the
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the skills that you need to be a better protector,
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Now let me get back to my interview with Clint.
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I think a lot of people are looking for the quick fix.
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what little tactic or what hack that's a popular term?
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What hack can I implement right now that will immediately produce the
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And I think what you're talking about is adopting a lifestyle as opposed to
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using everyday things around your house or in your environment to get,
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but when you talk about how you carry yourself,
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if you just tried to pay attention to everything all the time,
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What are some of those common habits that you said you,
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you need to start working in situational awareness?
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Your ego is what makes you talk the way you talk.
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It's okay to have all these different strengths,
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and it starts to come out and people start noticing it,
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You don't want your credibility to get ahead of you.
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I think is the first big piece of the equation,
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that branches off into so many lifestyle things that you're probably doing each day.
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How do you know that your ego is getting in the way?
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Cause we put boxes around ourselves and we have these little environments and that we operate.
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So how do you know when it is your ego that's actually becoming a problem for you?
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spending 20 minutes trying to figure out what you're going to wear,
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and you're using entirely too much product in your hair,
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then you're probably a guy that's really worried about your perception and based on looks.
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you got to kind of tamper that shit down a little bit.
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if you're going to the gym because there's mirrors,
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I would say that you're there for the wrong reason.
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You want to build functional strength so that you can handle yourself properly in a crisis.
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You want to be able to carry your own body weight plus someone else's in,
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in order to get out of a dicey situation or a crisis,
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stepping outside yourself and looking back is probably the better way of putting it.
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Like what is your motivation for engaging in whatever exercise you happen to be engaging in
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If you're working out because you just want to look good,
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then you probably need to put your ego in check.
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and then the other side of that is if that's the motivation,
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Like you can't sustain that over a long period or even a lifetime,
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Was there a certain section that you really enjoyed talking about,
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coming up with some of these tactics that you've gone through?
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the home security portion I thought was turned out really good and it's a lot of
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And I enjoyed kind of putting that together because I think it's,
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discussed when we talk about everything from whether it's a,
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a violent act inside your home or burglary or a burglary while you're gone.
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they lock their doors or they think they're going to go buy some really high
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security locks and that makes a difference or something.
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What are some common mistakes that you see most people make when it comes to,
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I think people focus a lot on alarm systems and locks,
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it's a dead bolt that goes into a door frame or a strike plate.
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And people feel like if they've got a really good lock on there,
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The bolts themselves are the same pretty much across the board,
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That chunk of metal that goes in and out is exactly the same.
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And so you can buy one that's very difficult to pick because it's got,
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different kinds of pins inside and bad guys don't pick locks.
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where you need to concentrate is reinforcing the frame of your door,
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two and a half to three inch wood screws and drill those things in all the
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especially on the hinge side and on the deadbolt side,
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that's going to reinforce the strength of your frame.
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that one mule kick to break your door frame and get your door open,
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you just turned into five in order to have your door kicked in.
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So delaying could be anything from how you illuminate your home on the outside to obstacles you put in place.
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And if you can detain them or get them detained,
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So what those four big D's do is create eccentric layers of security.
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you can do that without spending a whole lot of money and breaking the bank.
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but the problem is they're put in by technicians,
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And so sometimes cameras aren't put in the right place.
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Sometimes keypads aren't put in the right place.
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Sometimes panels are put in horrible places and any educated bad guy will
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Keypads are beeping and they're going to the panel.
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The panel is the brains of the system and that should be hidden.
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They're not going to look there with where they're going to look is they're
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They're going to look in the master bedroom for the panel and sometimes even
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And then they're going to go disconnect the backup battery.
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now they can sit in the house all day long and not worry about the cops
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is like these added layers that you're talking about.
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alarm guys will say a dog's not going to do anything.
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So I did some interviews with like straight up professional burglars and the
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two things that kept them away from a home was animals and kids.
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a huffy big wheel or a tricycle in your front yard,
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you want to make that bad guy feel naked if he's standing anywhere near your
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And if you don't want to spend the money on alarm system,
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He's going to have the yard signs and the stickers.
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And if for those females or you guys out there that have a,
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tell her to put a pair of size 12 cowboy boots outside her door and that'll
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This is a lot of cool stuff that you could just think like little minor stuff,
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every bad guy does his own form of reconnaissance.
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cause they're going to go after the easy target,
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and the other piece of this is guys that are coming at night typically are
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coming for you guys that are coming during the day while you're at work
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you break it down to those two kind of those two genres of bad guys.
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your layers so that what works at night works during the day and then you're
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the reason I like the two books is just because it is very consumable.
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but then it gets you thinking creatively about your situation and you could in
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create a new solution that maybe you didn't even know existed before.
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Cause you're thinking in the right mindset now,
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I certainly want everyone to become kind of Martha Stewart's of their
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adapt it to where you live and what you do and,
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you're coming up with probably brand new ideas and you can write your own hundred
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one of the other sections that I really liked was about surviving in the wild.
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And I liked that you broke it up into environments or,
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So I could go straight to that stuff that applies to me.
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Talk to me a little bit about maybe some of the skills that we should be aware of
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So I put that section in there cause I felt like a lot of the,
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the very few survival books that are out there are very repetitive of things that have
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survival books of the SAS and the United States army.
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So I wanted to kind of ramp it up and give it a modern touch.
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surviving in the wild really are applied to the people that it's not really about a
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I took a wrong turn and we hear it all the time where,
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They find themselves all of a sudden on an unpaved road during a blizzard.
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now they are there for the long haul and they have no idea what to do or how to
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if you're going to spend the night in frigid environments,
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seat fabrics and all these things around you that can actually keep you warm.
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and especially the floor mats are made of like,
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basically plastic and you couldn't ask for a better insulator,
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And now you end up in the middle of nowhere lost without a,
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you're talking about just being prepared up front,
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doing the work up front so that you don't get caught with your pants down
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it's 100% about being more proactive and preemptive and taking some
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so I didn't know you could use stars to navigate.
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to kind of bring back skill sets that really are basic,
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but obviously adding a new twist and a new set of education so that people can
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and I told you this last time we had our conversations that my oldest boy,
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We can even do a lot of this stuff together because he's in scouting and a lot
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of this stuff will pass out scouting requirements anyway.
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So it's pretty cool to be able to do it together.
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I could have never predicted when I put these books together is how
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which is great because now you're instilling these things in them,
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One of the things I wanted to ask you about too,
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but I wanted to talk with you about overcoming for maybe not having the right
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our emotions in the spur of the moment and thinking more clearly,
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So how would you suggest somebody maybe deal with a threat that they might be experiencing
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staying in control of your emotions and even physical reactions is,
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This is something that goes with sensitizing yourself to situations before they happen.
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you have to literally think about bad things happening to you,
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think about bad things happening to the people you love.
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And that is going to have a direct line from what you're thinking in your mind to your emotions.
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think about them in the terms of it happening to the people closest to you and sensitizing yourself to this.
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that could become obstacles for you in the moment.
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You've got them calibrated and it'll allow you to react in a more logical,
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I'm at this stop sign and some idiot wants to come up and carjack me,
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or I'm at an ATM machine and somebody wants to carjack me.
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my windows are up except for the one that's in use.
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we tend to get very lax and then we get distracted.
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you're implementing all these little things into your,
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and you're reducing those opportunities of being vulnerable when bad things happen.
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That's that deter phase that you're talking about,
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we're winding down on time and obviously we're not even getting into the full depth.
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I go through them with my boys and we just have a great time going through this stuff.
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you should always take the opportunity to prepare yourself the same way you prepare a meal or you build a fire or you do anything.
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Have a response to any situation already kind of thought out.
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It's much better to have your decision made before crisis than to be making decisions in crisis.
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if someone wants to buy the book or learn more about the work that you're doing,
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because I know you've got a couple of businesses,
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If you want to talk about any of that stuff and direct us where we need to be,
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So anything book related is at 100deadlyskills.com.
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All the social media stuff is there along with links to buy the book.
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If you happen to be a guy working at a company that needs policies,
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any of that stuff updated or any kind of vulnerability stuff done,
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and we'll build out tailored workplace violence,
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crisis management type policies so that the employees are better protected.
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every kind of job you can think of will already be done for half the price of
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what you would do if you went and bought a regular gun and sent it to eight
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different people over eight weeks period of time to get the
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We'll make sure we link all that up because that's a lot,
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I appreciate you and the work that you're doing.
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and I want to thank you for showing up again and having this conversation with
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Navy SEAL and New York Times bestselling author,
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sharing with us a bit about what it takes to be,
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ready for whatever crisis life has to throw at us.
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So go pick up the book and it's first one while you're there.
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just a quick reminder about our second live event,
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three spots left and I want to see you there at the end of the day.
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We're going to be competing in some activities,
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all of those challenges and activities and exercise are going to be exactly what
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you need to get your life to the next level and get you out of the rut that
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You can learn more and claim your spot at order of man.com slash uprising.
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I look forward to talking to you on Friday for our Friday field notes,
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but until then take action and become the man you were meant to be.
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Thank you for listening to the order of man podcast.
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You're ready to take charge of your life and be more of the man you were meant to be.
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