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S2E1 Developing Mental Agility & Managing Risk in Your Everyday Life | Retired Green Beret, Chris Cypert | Citizens Defense Research
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S2E1 Developing Mental Agility & Managing Risk in Your Everyday Life | Retired Green Beret, Chris Cypert | Citizens Defense Research

In this episode, Lora interviews retired Green Beret & Instructor Chris Cypert of Citizens Defense Research about:

  • How to find good training; what to look for in a trainer/instructor

  • Different tools for different missions

  • Backwards planning and how to apply it in your life

  • CDR's The Armed Parent/Guardian training

  • Managing & assessing risk in your everyday life

  • Looking at problems through the lens of probability & severity

  • What it means to truly be well rounded in self preservation

  • Thinking about the off ramps of verbal agility & de-escalation

  • What is mental agility and how does one develop it?

  • Training under stress: ideas to test your training

  • Why some people more easily stay calm and clear minded under stress

  • What sells isn't always what's needed

  • Why knowing your on demand skills and capabilities is imperative to self preservation

  • A challenge for the 2A community

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