Avoiding "cognitive tunneling"

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I am having a hard time envisioning a person who is not professionally at risk maintaining the kind of continuous, heightened awareness you guys seem to be describing.
When you are all outlining strategies, are you picturing these for all students or are you thinking more in terms of people who are at higher risk for violence?

It depends to what level you use and employ amazing awareness tactics.

So you come home and find your door kicked in. You could go in and check out if your stuff is gone. Mabye running into the robber.

Or use amazing awareness. And just ring the police and let them check.

Now we could just suggest this is common sense. But it is worthwhile learning the cues a bit before hand.

Another example is a mate of mine almost got bashed during some sort of meeting he had that occurred in a quiet back car park.

Now. Meetings in quiet car parks are a general red flag. You don't have to to be sensitive as such to pick these things.

Ambushes and scams have general themes.

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Otherwise you could spar in roda fashion. Which has people yelling from the sidelines that you have to watch for and other guys jumping in all the time.