What Is The Ultimate Motivation
In A Life-Or-Death Fight?
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"We must be eager to kill, to inflict on the enemy --
the hated enemy -- wounds, death, and destruction. If
we die killing, well and good, but if we fight hard
enough, viciously enough, we will kill and live. Live
to return home to our family and our girl as
conquering heroes -- men of Mars"
-- General George Patton
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By this time you probably detect a theme in my
newsletters about the focus you need when faced by a
real life-or-death confrontation.
It's simply this: when faced with a life-or-death
violent confrontation where using violence is your
only option:
1. Don't hesitate.
2. Find your target and strike your target.
3. Keep striking targets until you have destroyed
the other guy.
Many clients come to me from other 'self-defense'
training where they are forced to deal with simulated
attacks. I'll pass on the quality of that training
approach and instead focus on the 'motivation' these
systems use to keep the client from freezing under
attack.
These 'motivators' revolve around fighting for your
life, fighting to go home to loved ones, fighting to
protect loved ones, or some variation of those themes.
But if you take a good look at those reasons they all
fall short for one critical reason: They are NOT what
truly gets the job done to focus yourself like a laser
in order to destroy the other guy. At best, they are
byproducts of the "ultimate motivation".
So what IS the ultimate motivation in a life-and-
death struggle?
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AN ABSOLUTE FOCUS ON INFLICTIING AS MUCH DAMAGE
AS POSSIBLE TO THE OTHER GUY!
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Pretty simple.
What allows you to go home to your loved ones, to
protect them or yourself during a violent attack is --
hurting the other guy.
Imagine this scenario: A mugger puts a knife to your
throat.
Now, two totally different responses...
The person motivated to 'protect' himself/herself
grabs the wrist and tries to wrest control of the
knife.
The person motivated to hurt his/her other guy shifts
their torso, penetrates forward and delivers a closed
fist punch to the other guy's Adam's apple.
Two totally different responses, with totally
different results...
The former runs the risk of losing control of the
knife and getting seriously injured or killed.
The latter, by focusing on hurting the other guy,
neutralizes the knife by punching the Adam's apple and
starts to shut down the other guy's Central Nervous
System.
The byproduct of the latter action is he/she gets to
go home, protect the vulnerable loved one with them,
or whatever other motivation they thought was the
reason they hurt the other guy in the first place.
The General Patton quote is pretty rough, but the
context was motivating his troops for war... literally
the same as what you're facing in a true life-or-
death struggle. He wanted each and every one of them
to come home, and he knew the best chance they had was
if they focused on inflicting as much damage as
possible to their enemy.
You'll notice... he didn't urge them to think of
their loved ones as a motivation to fight.
He told them that if they fought to inflict as much
damage as possible on the enemy, they'd return home to
them.
Take a second to re-read that quote. I think you'll
probably see it in a much different content.
Until next time,
Tim Larkin
Creator of Target-Focus(TM) Training
http://www.targetfocustraining.com
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