The Art of Managing Fear | Tony Blauer

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Dr. Michael Gervais

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🗓️ 22 January 2020

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

This week’s conversation is with Coach Tony Blauer, who’s been in the martial art, self-defense, defensive tactics, and combatives industry for over four decades.

Tony founded Blauer Tactical Systems (BTS) in 1985 and it has grown into one of the world's leading consulting companies specializing in the research and development of performance psychology, personal safety, and close quarter tactics & scenario-based training for law enforcement, military, and professional self-defense instructors.

His research on the neuroscience of fear and the startle-flinch lead to the development of the SPEAR System, a modern personal defense system based on physiology, physics, and psychology.

It has been used by combative trainers all over the world for over 30 years.

After decades of interviewing victims of violent encounters and studying violence, he then created the KNOW FEAR program which focuses on managing fear through self-awareness, resiliency and a 'movement' mindset.

And so this conversation is about managing fear - but it extends far beyond self-defense.

Managing fear is both science and skill and it directly influences the outcome of every event.

In Tony's words: "Fear, impacts everything we do, from who we talk to, to whom we marry, from where we work, to where we live, from how much weight we lift to, whether or not we defend ourself... the ability to recognize, and manage fear directly impacts the quality of our life."

Tony doesn't believe in the idea of "no fear", but by better understanding our fears, we can change our relationship with it and use it as both a signal and a fuel.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	It's just so simple. Fear is a signal and if we used that signal in anything in life, it's our due north.
0:08.0	It's suddenly realizing because nothing happens next. You could have, hey, I want you to use these words,
0:13.9	they'll help in reconciliation or rapport building.
0:17.4	If you're afraid to say something,
0:19.5	it doesn't matter.
0:20.3	The technique is irrelevant.
0:22.0	And so, you know, when I say don't confuse
0:23.8	technical tactical tactical is getting the job done right and so I really believe
0:28.6	that if we taught everybody to look at fear differently we change everyone's
0:32.4	life everybody to look at fear differently we change everyone's life.
0:32.8	All right welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Jervay by
0:47.2	Trade and Training, a Sport and Performance Psychologist, as well as the co-founder of
0:51.0	Compete to Create. And the whole idea behind of Compete to Create.
0:53.0	And the whole idea behind these conversations is to learn.
0:56.0	But not only just to learn like passively,
0:57.6	but to, in an applied way, learn from people
0:59.8	have committed their life efforts towards mastery.
1:02.7	And we want to understand how they work.
1:05.6	And to do that, we want to understand the context.
1:07.4	Like, where did they come from?
1:08.8	How did they make sense of the world?
1:10.1	What is their framework that they explain events and themselves and really how the world works,
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