Improving Your Situational Awareness with Tim Larkin
Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik
Jim Kwik, Your Brain Coach, Founder www.KwikLearning.com
4.8 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
How can you improve your situational awareness?
A self-protection advocate, author, self-defense coach and member of the Black Belt Hall of Fame, today’s guest Tim Larkin has over two decades of experience teaching clients how to protect their own safety. On today’s show, he’ll be drawing on his experience in the military and as a self-defense coach to explain how improving our situational awareness will benefit our safety and our brains.
In this conversation, we talk about how situational awareness can benefit your life and your safety. We’ll explain how you can boost your situational awareness through fun practical exercises, and why attention is your most valuable commodity. We’ll leave you with some quick tips on how you can apply situational awareness to your home, travel and everyday life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to QuickBrain, Bites-sized brain hacks for busy people who want to learn faster and achieve more. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm your coach, Jim Quick. |
| 0:08.0 | Free your mind. |
| 0:10.0 | Let's imagine if we could access 100% of our brain's capacity. |
| 0:15.0 | I wasn't high, wasn't wired, just clear. |
| 0:18.0 | I knew what I needed to do and how to do it. |
| 0:20.0 | I know Kung Fu. |
| 0:22.0 | Show me. I know Kung Fu. |
| 0:24.0 | Come food. Show me. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome back Quick Brains. |
| 0:26.0 | Here's your question of the day. |
| 0:28.0 | How do you enhance your situational awareness? And we're going to define what that is to you and I'm |
| 0:37.7 | really excited because we have back on our show personal protection advocate and expert Tim Larkin. |
| 0:45.0 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:46.0 | Yeah, this is great because now if you haven't listened to our previous episode of us talking |
| 0:51.1 | together, it's a must listen to. It is a must listen to because we talked |
| 0:55.7 | about how to learn anything faster by going slower, but that wasn't just it. We talked |
| 1:01.4 | about breaking things down and always having a |
| 1:04.6 | beginner's mind and we talked about giving yourself permission to be able to make |
| 1:10.7 | mistakes and we talked about a little bit about fear and violence and the reason |
| 1:16.7 | why we're having these difficult conversations is just because we people want to ignore it |
| 1:22.4 | doesn't mean it goes away. |
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