Category Situational Awareness

Situational awareness gets talked about a lot in self-defense circles, and it’s accumulated a mythology that doesn’t match how the skill actually works. People picture it as a sixth sense, or an innate talent, or a permanent state of edge-of-your-seat…

Situational awareness is the most important personal safety skill most people never develop. It requires no physical training, no equipment, and no special knowledge. It simply requires paying attention — which, in an era of smartphones and constant distraction, has…