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Attention and Decision-Making

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In Brandon's own words

Every tagged moment, by class. Click a quote to land at the exact moment.

[object Promise] 4 moments

“"when you pay attention to something... you don't pay attention to it to remember it" ... "if we only do it one time" ... "imagine that I'm going to push on you"”
Open at 27:59
“"Give me your attention... I might push on you" ... "if you don't pay attention, other people make decisions for you." ... "Clean that up... Change your behavior."”
Open at 28:34
“... tie your belt ... you need them to be yours, and you don't need anybody ... 00:30:55? (forward roll) ... decide if place/space is enough ... and thinking about decisions you have to make...”
Open at 30:07
““As you’re making decisions about what happens next... If you could stop yourself and let the other person finish their explanation...” / “you’re still responsible for what your body does.””
Open at 52:39
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[object Promise] 3 moments

“"It is never, in fact, a stop... You're not capable of stopping, of freezing and not moving... I lie to somebody else, physically, to convince them you're not moving."”
Open at 13:12
“"Getting your attention for a week." (isolated cue; broader awareness language not consistently present in segment text)”
Open at 20:00
“"you make breath the thing that you’re trying to vary" ... "one more, one more" ... "right ... multiple attacks, and they’re gonna be grabbed, and they’re gonna be punched"”
Open at 52:44
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[object Promise] 3 moments

“"And don’t be distracted" (in response to cardinal noise) ... "there’s things to hear that are beautiful, or just distracting" ... "I've got voices in my head" ... "I go slow ... I have time inside for each of the things."”
Open at 14:23
“That's okay, I can wait. Okay.”
Open at 59:54
“"that's not a thing... it's like fire" ... "The center is kind of like a fire" ... "where is that center?..." ... "act like we know where the center is."”
Open at 15:36
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[object Promise] 4 moments

“You really are going the opposite way around your… you could do that... everything that you do would then be the opposite direction.... Go around the clock.”
Open at 2:23
“"Let's all start with our right foot first." ... "That's your left foot."”
Open at 18:35
“"Are we facing toward the inside, or are we facing toward the outside? ... the rules of the game ... changed... we're all facing together, like, in a circle"”
Open at 20:09
“"We don't need any more steps, we don't need any more steps than we expect." So...we're not gonna do the hand, we're just gonna help the person to fall down."”
Open at 33:44
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[object Promise] 2 moments

“Come back. ... You're right: "important to be able to decide when you ... time is."”
Open at 1:59
“"Did you know that relaxing is part of preparing to be in conflict?" ... "Well, I guess here we go, and start making decisions" ... "Relax and decide."”
Open at 11:17
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[object Promise] 2 moments

“"to find yourself in a circumstance that this makes sense, an actual conflict…" ... "There’s all kinds of ways in which I’m at a disadvantage" ... "So that someone else attacking me would be out of balance, because I'm in good shape."”
Open at 53:34
““If you turn and engage, suddenly you have to deal with all the craziness... Society trains us not to...” through “You have to be able to turn and say, crazy... or could we go back to the social contract, please?””
Open at 1:07:00
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[object Promise] 5 moments

“"One of the things that happens when someone attacks you is you switch on… you switch roles suddenly" through "The tighter I get, the higher the stakes… harder to notice what role I'm in"”
Open at 7:52
“"their identity as martial artists stays in place through other tasks..." and "the thing that I would like to have be my habit is not the inner narrative, you're the boss"”
Open at 28:28
“My fear-based response is to move into a position of confidence and dominance. ... I really don't know ... whether I'm up for this or not, but I'm gonna bring my full attention to it. ... I stop worrying about whether... about outcomes, because I'm not in charge anyway... That feels like humility to me.”
Open at 30:24
“The freeze comes from maybe not being prepared... Clench in the moment, which allows you to be present... another side where ... it's something I know I'm supposed to be good at, and I clench even harder... I go to Knife, even though I really should just say, no, I missed the opportunity, let it go.”
Open at 31:10
“"my brain is associating the Kazushi with the successful technique" ... "I'm not able" ... "not being in the moment"”
Open at 56:37
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[object Promise] 2 moments

“"my fantasy that I know what he's going to do keeps going... I don't adjust my idea of you to fit... because I'm really attached to my fantasy of who you are."”
Open at 40:59
“"when it comes to conflict... when it comes to conflict... decide, yes, I am mom... I am papa... And that's my job... it's appropriate for me to use my authority in that way"”
Open at 41:39
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[object Promise] 1 moment

“"Really? A customer threw a broom at a cashier...." ... "So you're thinking about 360-degree awareness"”
Open at 0:11
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[object Promise] 3 moments

“"If I wake up to the fact that someone's going to attack me... what's the habit... Before I move, even if I have a millisecond to do it."”
Open at 30:31
“"What do I do to bring myself into structure before I commit... And for me ... that's a descriptive phase."”
Open at 31:22
“"when a new person attacks somebody who's been doing martial arts for a long time... And that's on purpose" through "The group changes based on the gravity of that person"”
Open at 59:57
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[object Promise] 2 moments

“"I'm here" / "I'm out" / "Who's there?" / "Excuse me?" / "I'm behind you" / "I'm listening" / "What do you see?" / "Where?"”
Open at 23:22
“"you can get really attached to the daily workings of those wheels" ... "it's A to B with nuance ... it spins, there's a spin to it" ... "we've been controlled by the spin and have lost track of the vector entirely"”
Open at 59:54
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[object Promise] 2 moments

“"So I slowed things down a little bit." / "Try to give myself time to make thoughtful decisions." / "What am I missing?" / "all decisions have to be made as quickly as possible" / "that gets me out of the habit of being thoughtful about it"”
Open at 11:30
“"The more attached I can be, the more aware and present I can be... intuition, I think, is a way to... embodied, felt sense of what's happening that requires and doesn't require a response... bringing a very complex, dynamic system into a moment of decision, and then back out again... under pressure, I tend to shut down and do the obvious thing."”
Open at 58:31

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