This is true for hard wired biological reasons. When your heart rate escalates sharply under life threatening stress, your ability to think creatively goes sharply downhill and your brain searches for "preprogrammed" responses. If it finds some, it executes them. If it doesn't, your heart rate skyrockets further and you become even less capable of getting yourself out of whatever you've gotten into.Dragonfighter wrote:Shorts wrote:Well yes, "you never know" until it happens. But the simple discussion opens up a thought process many might have never considered. Its probably much more pleasant a surprise on an internet forum than in real life
I don't think that the value of running through "what if" scenarios can be over estimated. In fact I would posit that regularly running through these scenarios is a form of "training" and I believe, that if actually faced with the unthinkable, you would revert to your "training" including range work and tactical "imaginings".
Thinking about things beforehand is planning, not training. Tactics have to be physically exercised and repeated to bring them to the point of reliable usability when you need them most.
