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Featured, Manly Skills, Tactical Skills

10 Tests, Exercises, and Games to Heighten Your Senses and Situational Awareness

STOP: BEFORE YOU READ ON, STUDY THE PICTURE ABOVE FOR 60 SECONDS.

THEN, SCROLL DOWN AND SEE IF YOU CAN ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

How many people total were involved in this accident?

How many males and how many females?
What color were the two cars?
What objects were lying on the ground?
What injury did the man on the ground seem to be suffering from?
What was the license plate number of one of the cars?

How did you do on this little test? Not as well as you would have liked? Perhaps it’s time you strengthened your powers of observation and heightened
your situational awareness.

Enhancing one’s observational abilities has numerous benefits: it helps you live more fully in the present, notice interesting and delightful phenomena
you would have otherwise missed, seize opportunities that disappear as quickly as they arrive, and keep you and your loved ones safe.

Today we’re going to offer some games, tests, and exercises that will primarily center on that latter advantage: having the kind of situational awareness
that can help you prevent and handle potentially dangerous and critical situations. But the benefits of practicing them will certainly carry over into all
other aspects of your life as well.

Ready to start heightening your senses and building your powers of observation? Read on.

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Books, Libraries of Famous Men, Travel & Leisure

The Libraries of Famous Men: Henry David Thoreau

Welcome back to our series on the libraries of great men. The eminent men of history were often voracious readers and their own philosophy
represents a distillation of all the great works they fed into their minds. This series seeks to trace the stream of their thinking back to the source. For,
as David Leach, a now retired business executive put it: “Don’t follow your mentors; follow your mentors’ mentors.”

When one pictures Henry David Thoreau, one is apt to think of the famous philosopher tending his bean plants at Walden, or taking one of his daily
4-hour walks in the woods — ever and always out and about in nature.

But Thoreau was equally likely to be found indoors, engaged in intellectual pursuits. Indeed, these two practices constituted the two main chunks of
his daily routine: in the mornings he read and wrote at his desk; in the afternoons he sauntered over hill and dale and got his fill of plants, soil, and
fresh air.

The two parts of his day were not distinct and cordoned off from each other, either, but together created a vital synergy. Thoreau’s morning reading
prepared his mind to observe nature more keenly and draw deeper lessons from the landscape. In turn, the observations he made in the woods allowed
him to understand the books he was reading more fully, as well as furnished him with new questions to investigate and study further.

Thoreau found that books would only resonate with him when they connected to experiences and trains of thought he had already formed himself.
That is, only after Thoreau had begun making discoveries on his own, would he notice and grasp things in books that expanded or confirmed his
observations and theories:

“a man receives only what he is ready to receive, whether physically or intellectually or morally…We hear and apprehend only what we
already half know. If there is something which does not concern me, which is out of my line, which by experience or genius my attention
is not drawn to, however novel and remarkable it may be, if it is spoken, we hear it not, if it is written we read it not, or if we read it, it
does not detain us. Every man thus tracks himself through life, in all his hearing and reading and observation and travelling.”

Or as E. M. Forster put it so well, “the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our
particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.”

Fortunately for Thoreau, so diverse were his intellectual interests, so varied were the paths he was going down at any given time, that a broad spectrum
of books were able to influence him. Robert D. Richardson, a biographer of Thoreau, describes his subject as “a chain reader…He took copious notes
in a variety of subjects all going in different directions.” The author of one book would mention several other authors and works that would pique
Thoreau’s curiosity, and which he then felt compelled to read next. “Every time he came upon a book that stirred him,” Richardson notes, “this process
was repeated.”

These various reading chains became more like webs, as Thoreau found fascinating connections between the subjects he studied. And the more he
learned, the more he was able to find unifying principles that linked man and nature, and the more he was able to understand himself. “For Thoreau,”
Richardson observes, “every bit of knowledge and every perception of identity shared across the ages served to strengthen his own identity.”

Thoreau’s Favorite Genres and Recommended Reading List

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