Tenacious Resilience
Building Anti-Fragility Into Peak Performance
BY MICHAEL G. MALPASS, 2022
In this book, TENACIOUS RESILIENCE, Malpass takes 32 years of experience as a cop and a competitive fighter and relates his experiences with modern affective predictive neuroscience. By understanding how the brain creates your sense of reality using prediction, modern neuroscience can explain why most people can only claim to be average in any endeavor. More important, modern neuroscience can offer a better path to training for peak performance.
Written for athletes, first responders, military personnel, or anyone who wants to better manage the effects of fear, anxiety, stress, and pressure in any endeavor, this book applies predictive processing to the design and implementation of training programs. Using training principles that favorably compare with affective predictive processing, this book will show you science-based tools for building an effective training program from the ground up and provide the opportunity to perform at your peak when that performance matters most.
Michael G. Malpass is a retired police officer with 30 years of experience, 11 ½ of those years with the SWAT team in Phoenix, Arizona. Mike is the author of two previous books, Taming the Serpent, and Fall Seven, Rise Eight. Both of those works were geared toward law enforcement training. This is his first work applying lessons from law enforcement, and as a competitive fighter, with his study of neuroscience as it applies to performance. Written for anyone who must make better decisions under the effects of stress and pressure in mission critical time frames.
Written for athletes, first responders, military personnel, or anyone who wants to better manage the effects of fear, anxiety, stress, and pressure in any endeavor, this book applies predictive processing to the design and implementation of training programs. Using training principles that favorably compare with affective predictive processing, this book will show you science-based tools for building an effective training program from the ground up and provide the opportunity to perform at your peak when that performance matters most.
Michael G. Malpass is a retired police officer with 30 years of experience, 11 ½ of those years with the SWAT team in Phoenix, Arizona. Mike is the author of two previous books, Taming the Serpent, and Fall Seven, Rise Eight. Both of those works were geared toward law enforcement training. This is his first work applying lessons from law enforcement, and as a competitive fighter, with his study of neuroscience as it applies to performance. Written for anyone who must make better decisions under the effects of stress and pressure in mission critical time frames.
FALL SEVEN, RISE EIGHT.
A Kaizen Approach to Law Enforcement Training & Life
BY MICHAEL G. MALPASS, 2022
Law enforcement training, which acts as if the human brain is a pure stimulus/response organ, has left police officers with the knowledge of what to do in certain volatile and time compressed situations without the actual ability to do it!
The human brain is predictive. It is constantly predicting what is happening in your external world based on comparisons of what is happening inside of your body to external data coming in through your senses. These predictions are the brain's best guess about what is happening, what to do about it, and a probabilistic evaluation of the likelihood of success based on your relevant past experiences.
Fall Seven, Rise Eight shows how an individual officer, law enforcement trainers, and entire organizations can leverage this information to make training better for tense, uncertain, and time compressed situations. Understanding the brain mechanisms involved in these predictive processes as well as the mind-body communication networks are the keys to unlocking peak performance when performance matters most.
Michael G. Malpass is a recently retired police officer with 30 years of experience as a patrol officer, SWAT operator and defensive tactics instructor. He provides law enforcement training using a combative blend of fighting systems and the neuroscience of sound decision making under stress for real world encounters.
The human brain is predictive. It is constantly predicting what is happening in your external world based on comparisons of what is happening inside of your body to external data coming in through your senses. These predictions are the brain's best guess about what is happening, what to do about it, and a probabilistic evaluation of the likelihood of success based on your relevant past experiences.
Fall Seven, Rise Eight shows how an individual officer, law enforcement trainers, and entire organizations can leverage this information to make training better for tense, uncertain, and time compressed situations. Understanding the brain mechanisms involved in these predictive processes as well as the mind-body communication networks are the keys to unlocking peak performance when performance matters most.
Michael G. Malpass is a recently retired police officer with 30 years of experience as a patrol officer, SWAT operator and defensive tactics instructor. He provides law enforcement training using a combative blend of fighting systems and the neuroscience of sound decision making under stress for real world encounters.
TAMING THE SERPENT:
HOW NEUROSCIENCE CAN REVOLUTIONIZE MODERN LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING
BY MICHAEL G. MALPASS, 2019
Law enforcement has been increasingly under fire in the media for what some believe is unnecessary police violence. But few have suggestions as to what we can do about it.
There is a noticeable gap between the way officers are trained and how the brain processes information in the stressful and risky situations which police work. Training arguably no longer prepares our officers for how to effectively deal with these situations.
But with advancements in neuroscience, we could finally have the answer. We can guide modern training for better decision-making and performance under life-threatening stress and pressure – for the good of police officers and the public.
Taming the Serpent brings the research about neuroscience and law enforcement together, showing how we can revolutionize modern law enforcement.
Michael G. Malpass has been in law enforcement thirty years as a beat cop, tactical training officer, SWAT officer and advanced training officer, teaching defensive tactics. He developed many training programs over his career before penning Taming the Serpent. Available now on:
There is a noticeable gap between the way officers are trained and how the brain processes information in the stressful and risky situations which police work. Training arguably no longer prepares our officers for how to effectively deal with these situations.
But with advancements in neuroscience, we could finally have the answer. We can guide modern training for better decision-making and performance under life-threatening stress and pressure – for the good of police officers and the public.
Taming the Serpent brings the research about neuroscience and law enforcement together, showing how we can revolutionize modern law enforcement.
Michael G. Malpass has been in law enforcement thirty years as a beat cop, tactical training officer, SWAT officer and advanced training officer, teaching defensive tactics. He developed many training programs over his career before penning Taming the Serpent. Available now on:
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