Critical Thinking at Sonic Speeds
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 XIV: The Leadership Imperative. Effective leadership involves, first and foremost, the deliberate optimization of our ability to think critically when engaged in a high stakes operation. Captain Smith employs two clips from Jordan Peterson in making his point.
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Think Like a Fighter Pilot – Part X: Courage, confidence, and a winning attitude combined with the ability to think critically is how fighter pilots think. Captain Smith asserts that we all can learn to think and perform this way as well. Join the discussion! You can find all of Captain Smith’s podcasts on his website ThrottleUpRadio.com.
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Think Like a Fighter Pilot – Part IX: This week Captain Smith discusses the movie Top Gun: Maverick, and his new book The Sonic Warrior: Chronicles of a Top Gun Pioneer. Both provide insight into how to think when conditions are at once dangerous and difficult. All of Captain Smith’s podcasts can be found on his website ThrottleUpRadio.com.
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Think Like a Fighter Pilot – Part VIII: Operating at the tip of the spear – what warriors do!
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Think Like a Fighter Pilot – Part VII: The Problem of Consciousness. Captain Smith challenges us to look at how we detect signals and acquire information; and how we construct an enduring model of reality. He plays 2 clips from Jordan Peterson to enhance the discussion. If you are not reading this description on his website, please visit ThrottleUpRadio.com to find all of Captain Smith’s podcasts.
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Think Like a Fighter Pilot – Part VI: This week’s show is focused on human cognition. Captain Smith discusses the problem of perception and how to think, operate, and perform when encountering hostilities such that survival as a nation is at stake. If not viewing this description on his website, be advised that ALL of Captain Smith’s podcasts can be found on his website TrottleUpRadio.com.
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Think Like a Fighter Pilot – Part II: Fighter pilots have solved the problem of perception. This solution can be useful to all now that we live in a world of deception and propaganda. We all must consider the question: Is our perception valid or corrupted? Listen in to the discussion. Captain Smith plays several clips from the great Jordan Peterson.
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The Truth Algorithm – Part XXV: In this episode Captain Smith discusses how the Theory of Knowledge (TOK) informs a key component of the workings of the Truth Algorithm. The goal of the algorithm is to help us determine, through the power of reason, what is the truth, while living in a world that is “hostile to reason”. Listen each weekend at RedStateTalkRadio.com – 6PM on the Justice channel; 7PM on the Liberty channel. Find our podcasts anytime at ThrottleUpRadio.com.
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