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Defending Yourself [Monday, Period 1]
"The purpose of last week's little exercise," in case it wasn't obvious, "was to give both you and me a chance to see what your instinctive reactions to surprises were. Because everyone's got those instincts, and a lot of the time they're useful. So recognizing them can help you learn to channel them."
"This is going to be familiar with a lot of you, but in humans instinctive panic reactions tend to be either fight, or flight. Which is to say, you either fight whatever surprised you, or you run away. The trick is to pick the right one. After all, for most people," though certainly not all, especially in Max's class, "running from a tiger is a bad idea. The tiger is faster than you are, and there aren't many places you can go that it can't. On the other hand, most of the time, fighting an avalanche doesn't work out too well."
Max shrugged. "It's all about context."
"Of course, that's all complicated by the fact that these responses are instinctive. You don't have time to think about whether to run or fight, you're already doing one or the other by the time you can think at all."
"There are ways to change instinctive responses, and one of the best ones is practice. That involves both thinking about situations in advance, and then getting involved in them in controlled ways." Which made the Danger Shop pretty dang useful.
"So today's activity involves the thinking part. Everyone partner up. Then take turns suggesting surprising and/or dangerous situations to each other. Talk about instinctive responses. What's the first thing you'd do in that situation? Talk about ideal responses: after some thought, what do you hope you'd do?"
"I'll be walking around and listening in, and any particularly good ideas might just come up again in a later class." And by 'might', he pretty much meant 'definitely will'.
"So let's get to it."
"This is going to be familiar with a lot of you, but in humans instinctive panic reactions tend to be either fight, or flight. Which is to say, you either fight whatever surprised you, or you run away. The trick is to pick the right one. After all, for most people," though certainly not all, especially in Max's class, "running from a tiger is a bad idea. The tiger is faster than you are, and there aren't many places you can go that it can't. On the other hand, most of the time, fighting an avalanche doesn't work out too well."
Max shrugged. "It's all about context."
"Of course, that's all complicated by the fact that these responses are instinctive. You don't have time to think about whether to run or fight, you're already doing one or the other by the time you can think at all."
"There are ways to change instinctive responses, and one of the best ones is practice. That involves both thinking about situations in advance, and then getting involved in them in controlled ways." Which made the Danger Shop pretty dang useful.
"So today's activity involves the thinking part. Everyone partner up. Then take turns suggesting surprising and/or dangerous situations to each other. Talk about instinctive responses. What's the first thing you'd do in that situation? Talk about ideal responses: after some thought, what do you hope you'd do?"
"I'll be walking around and listening in, and any particularly good ideas might just come up again in a later class." And by 'might', he pretty much meant 'definitely will'.
"So let's get to it."
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The lecture
The activity
1) What's your instinctive reaction?
2) What do you think your reaction should be?
and if you like...
3) What's a good way to get (1) to become (2)?
Re: The activity
So he sat there, totally preoccupied, unpartnered up...
Talk to Max
OOC