The secret benefits of a Navy SEAL sniper mindset?
As a former sniper course manager for the SEAL Teams, I can tell you that I’ve seen firsthand the benefits of a positive mindset.
Victor Frankl talks about mindset and his Nazi prisoner experience in his famous book, Man’s Search for Meaning. Many in the camp he was in just “gave up” mentally and died.
The mind turns off and the body follows.
Afghanistan, 2002
The three of us are picking through the desert hardscrabble, collecting the packs another platoon stashed here earlier, when we hear a sound. We turn and look up the ravine toward the dirt road where we parked our truck a few minutes ago. A crowd of maybe fifty Afghan guys is standing up there, seven or eight yards away, looking down at us. A crowd of Afghan guys with guns. A crowd of Afghan guys with guns, who don’t look happy.
It’s early 2002, just a few months after 9/11, and we are in northeastern Afghanistan on a search-and-seizure operation, looking for bad guys. We wonder if maybe we just found some.
We wonder if maybe some just found us.
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