{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F673c3509-cf02-42d2-8f2e-fda2e4d65c04","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"#12 Solo Appalachian Trail Thru-Hiker and Combat Veteran, Trey Free on: \"Making decisions and suppressing demons.\"","description":"This is my conversation with combat veteran and Appalachian Trail Thru-Hiker, Trey Free. Among many other things, Trey reminds us in this conversation that \"Quitting is a mindset, not a decision!\"\n\n*A reminder that anything Trey says here are his thoughts, and his thoughts alone. He is not representing his former or current organization.*\n\nTrey is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, then Air Force special operations Combat Controller, a guy I consider an expert in selection, assessment, and training. Trey's a huge part of the MCTI community. He's a dad, a husband, an Appalachian Trail through-hiker, and great American.\n\nIn this conversation, we discuss selecting and training chess players rather than those who play checkers.\n\n- building the race car we need today, rather than fighting the last fight\n\n- when Trey realized he needed to change his thinking around professional development, and how to select and train Tier 1 operators effectively\n\n- we discuss how challenging it is when as instructors and trainers we try to push/progress training when the only experience we have (the only experience anyone has) is our own.\n\n- we talk about moving away from selecting only on tactics and skills, but selecting and training to \"Characteristics\" such as:\n\n- Problem Solving\n\n- Interpersonal Effectiveness\n\n- Communication\n\n- Drive\n\n- Stress Tolerance (cognitive overload)\n\n\n\nWe also discuss why training is for certainty and education is for uncertainty\n\n- we discuss mental toughness and Trey tells us his 15 categories of what he believes you can control, and need to keep front-sight-focused upon\n\n- we talk about peak performance and getting over perceived failures\n\n- as it pertains to quitting hard things, Trey talks about \"quitting\" as a mindset, not a decision.\n\n- we talk about residue and transition from the military\n\nYou can find Trey on YouTube at EarlyRiser71, and see his book release promo at It's Time to Choose.","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/f5f9e24d-df49-4221-8bf6-a0f2107438ba/mcti-teamcast-logo5b.jpg"}