On Mindset.

Mindset: the established set of attitudes held by someone.

I’ve found that mindset is an important component to achieving any goal. When I think about my mindset linguistically, it is in terms like strength, power, determination, suffering and joy. These words are ultimately meaningless and the idea of telling someone to “be strong” seems entirely ridiculous. While I believe mindset is necessary to taking the most secure first step, there are also some who may be able to do without it. They may be able to luckily white knuckle their way through some strife, and ultimately be ok, but there are formulas to circumvent this gamble, and they may be helpful to many.

Enter Tom Kier.

One of my favorite roles was playing D in the Hulu series Chance. The character D was based on Tom Kier. 

Tom has been a combatives instructor for the past 30 years, he is considered a subject matter expert by USSOCOM (The Unites States Special Operations Command), he holds a master instructor/Tuhon rank in Sayoc Kali. Sayoc is a Filipino martial arts system developed by Pamana Tuhon Chris Sayoc. 

Mindset is an integral part of Sayoc, and I thought it would be a good idea to get Tom in to share some of those principles. Coming from the perspective of a combatives instructor, many of these mindset formulas are laid out in terms appropriate to combat, but I have found them easily applied to anything I set out to do.

I have had the privilege and honor to spend a few hundred hours sitting and talking with Tom. There isn’t a subject yet that we have found uninteresting.

I hope you guys enjoy this one.

Sincerely,