This book is a curated compilation of blog posts published between 2009 and 2019. This collection is intended to be a retrospective primer on neural-based training during my early years of research and application. There are works here that first appeared pre-internet, during the 80s and 90s, back when I began my journey into understanding how the brain works in a fight. This introduces my experiments in designing training to maximize benefit to the students by providing learning experiences that worked the way the brain did under stress. While this book addresses much research it's not the most current research that I've done. That will appear in subsequent books in this series. The next book will focus on my work on situational awareness, summaries of the most recent research, and detailed "how-to" on training situational awareness at the neurological/cognitive level via interactive and immersive exercises that immediately change the brain. With that caveat in mind, I think that reviewing this material to see where I've been before will provide the best introduction to the next generation of work. This book is not intended as a textbook, but rather as a working notebook that provides a map one can follow in subsequent books. I want to thank my friend and former student Peter Morgan for his great help in curating the hundreds of thousands of words on my old blog and helping me find the wheat amongst the chaff.
Marcus Wynne is a charter member of The Been There, Done That Club. He's got all the T-shirts and knows all the secret handshakes. He enjoys poetry, ballet, knife fighting, and serial monogamy with fierce feminists. He is the author of multiple best-selling thrillers and urban fantasies. When he's not busy telling lies for money as a fictioneer, he runs a research and development company for the Department of Defense. He's honored to provide training and consultation to the finest warriors in the world.
I have enjoyed Marcus Wynne’s fiction for the past few years. His bios always present him as a man “in the know”, but after reading this book on teaching I find that to be an understatement. I highly recommend this book to everyone who teaches any physical skill set.