Evolution has geared the human stress response to last about thirty seconds. It's enough time to facilitate fight or flight. Evolution has not adapted our brains or bodies to handle weeks or months of prolonged stress.

David Amerland
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  1. Before you can act you must choose. Before you can choose you must know. Before you can know you must feel. And before you can feel you must be trained.

  2. Fathom your motivation so that you understand what you are prepared to do and why.

  3. Every physical response, every psychological change and every mental transformation starts with the mind.

  4. Leaders lead by example. No leader asks more than he is prepared to give himself.

  5. The moment you establish a line of communication between two points, you subtly change both. That is also true for the way the brain is affected by the mind.

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