152: Hyper-Awareness Makes You a Target

By now, most of us are familiar with the trope of the hyper-alert, hyper-aware veteran who's level of situational awareness often looks like a display. In that grey space between the white picket fence and war on an industrial scale, this posture will not only make you a target, but one that is easy to predict.

You will often see people concerned with self defense identify their greatest threat to be the casual opportunist. Nothing like declaring your value with the lowest common denominator. However, an adversary with even the slightest modicum of self awareness will likely start gathering information on you, seeking to know your pattern of life in order to identify weaknesses.

This is where the hyper-alert self-defense guy comes into the picture. Not only is he aware of his surroundings, he's so aware that he has to tell everyone about it. He's so aware that he makes himself out to be a target.

In addition to that, most people who exhibit public displays of self awareness turn out to be compensating for a lack of achievement in their current or prior employment.

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