Critical Thinking at Sonic Speeds
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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Think Like a Fighter Pilot – Part XVII: This week’s episode is a Q&A session with Captain Kevin Smith regarding the fighter pilot community, the Sonic Warrior community, and the critical aspects of sonic warfare. You can find all of Captain Smith’s podcasts on his website ThrottleUpRadio.com
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Think Like a Fighter Pilot – Part XVI: We could refer to this as the ultimate challenge in order to defend this nation against airborne enemy forces. A new type of warfare, built from the ground up, was urgently needed. It is called “sonic warfare”. Since reliance on previous knowledge was impossible (because it did not exist) fighter pilots of this era needed to think for themselves.
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Think Like a Fighter Pilot – Part XV: The Sonic Warrior: Chronicles of a Top Gun Pioneer. The new book by Captain Kevin Smith chronicles an era in aviation when supersonic flight was new, Top Gun was emerging, critical challenges were addressed, and a novel war fighting community was established. The book and audio book are now available where ever books are sold.
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