Critical Thinking at Sonic Speeds
Think Like a Fighter Pilot – Part XXVII: “Adapting the Top Gun training model for use aboard a deployed aircraft carrier was one of the most challenging yet important military operations I have ever done. This is my story,” Captain Smith shares with the audience.
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Think Like a Fighter Pilot – Part XXVI: Join Captain Kevin Smith for the telling of a most compelling story: a first hand account of the experience of commanding the first deployed Top Gun unit, embarked aboard the USS Constellation.
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Think Like a Fighter Pilot – Part XXV: Join us for a deep dive into the life of a Sonic Warrior. Prepare to be amazed!
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Think Like a Fighter Pilot – Part XXIV: Human cognition in the form of innovation, creativity and response to criticality is credited for our ability to turn supersonic flight into a new warfare specialty: Sonic Warfare. Join Captain Smith in the discussion. Find all of his podcasts at ThrottleUpRadio.com.
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Think Like a Fighter Pilot – Part XXIII: This episode is all about “how to think” when traveling at sonic speeds. This newly discovered thinking process, “high velocity reasoning”, is presented and explained. This podcast and all of Captain Smith’s podcasts are available on his website: ThrottleUpRadio.com.
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Think Like a Fighter Pilot – Part XXII: The challenge we all face is how to optimize our thinking process when problems arise and uncertainty prevails. As a group of thought leaders, the Sonic Warrior community can help.
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Think Like a Fighter Pilot – Part XXI: As humans we have not been taught how to think (how one should think) when encountering stressful situations that contain elements of complexity and uncertainty. This is a HUGE problem and accounts for much of what subsequently goes wrong.
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Think Like a Fighter Pilot – Part XX: Fighter pilots trained in ultra high-speed aerial combat are known as Sonic Warriors. This includes, but is not limited to those that have received Topgun instruction. In order to achieve mission success as a Sonic Warrior, expanded consciousness is necessary. This episode discusses the definition of expanded consciousness and how to achieve it.
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Think Like a Fighter Pilot – Part XIX: Captain Smith examines how and why Sonic Warriors think the way that they do; and why this is important, not just for high-velocity combat, but for all operators and managers as well. Look for Captain Kevin Smith’s new book – The Sonic Warrior: Chronicles of a Top Gun Pioneer – where ever books are sold!
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Think Like a Fighter Pilot – Part XVIII: Mission Critical Thinking. Captain Smith continues his discussion of the Top Gun Maverick movie and his new book The Sonic Warrior, in a Q&A format. Importantly he discusses how sonic warfare – the newest warfare specialty to emerge – uncovers and clarifies a completely new way of thinking. This new way of thinking is referred to as mission critical thinking and is how sonic warriors perform high velocity aerial combat – and win!
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