The CIA

Often I post on changes, beliefs and assumptions and I try to convey how we tend to limit our perceptions and beliefs but advocate an open-mind-set to gain more from knowledge, training and practice. I thought that it might provide more willingness in taking to change if I were able to pose an organization that could be seen as a type of validation and I found the CIA. Interesting, interested?

The following two links were closer to what I am trying to convey. It involves how CIA analysts are to be trained to "see and hear" more than what our human brains tend to use, to go outside the box and beyond a closed-mind.

Take a moment to read through these three URL's. It is ok that they are out of sequence and of course you may end up reading the entire fourteen chapters of the article.

Try to imagine that in place of analyst you use Sensei or Deshi or what ever but remain open-minded as to how this can be related/connected to martial systems and our belief system for MA.

Chapter 3: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/psychology-of-intelligence-analysis/art6.html

Chapter 6: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/psychology-of-intelligence-analysis/art9.html

Chapter 9: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/psychology-of-intelligence-analysis/art12.html