Predictable Patterns

Taken from Patterns of Behavior, Part 2: Break Your Bad Habits in the Counterinsurgency Series.

Believe this, Predictability gets soldiers killed.

Whether it is hitting snooze or staying in a toxic relationship, complacency is more than just a bad habit. It is a lack of self-leadership.

Poor leadership gets soldiers killed, ruins operations, and leads down a path to tyranny. Avoid it at all costs.

Patterns of Behavior

You may want to review 3 ways to interrupt your programming. But to effectively conduct a Counterinsurgency, you will need to forever break your habits by tracing it back to the inception. Where did it begin, and Why?

Your predictability stems from your values, which may be a distorted Cause you have decided to pick up and take as your own.

Watch a few minutes taken from Joe Rogan’s podcast with Jonathan Haidt. Haidt is a social psychologist and Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business. (Video should start at 22:22, watch through 25:00)

As a society, we are becoming more predictable. If we allow ourselves to follow this trend, we compromise our nations (our bodies), and make them vulnerable.

As discussed in part one of Patterns of Behavior, many physiological imbalances are rooted energetically, or psychologically. Why is that?

From a young age, we are conditioned by society. We are told how to act, how to talk, how to be happy, and how to forget.

Repression and suppression are the subjects we were taught in schools and in our homes.

And, unfortunately, most of us scored an A+.

Trapped in the Ivory Tower

The solution? Establish a perimeter! Set boundaries! Maintain Overwhelming Dominance!

Dominate all areas of highest strategic importance! Specifically, your nutrition. Also dominate i.e. maintain control of your mental health. Utilize stress management tools at your disposal.

Occasionally, Sound the Retreat and drink plenty of water – water provides greater mobility and health for your muscles. Review part one of the Support Elements series, if you have not considered the role water has in your Counterinsurgency strategy.