From Charts to Algorithms: How Perception Gets Manipulated
Why Critical Thinking Is the Most Important Self-Defense Skill Today Critical thinking is no longer optional. It is a life skill. In a world shaped by algorithms, automation, and mass messaging, the ability to think clearly determines whether a person acts with agency or drifts with momentum. What rises to the top of our attention […]
Fear and Adrenaline in Self-Defense: What Really Happens Under Stress
Does Fear Help or Hurt You in Self-Defense and Real Life? Fear is a biological response designed to keep us alive. It is not a flaw in human nature, and it is not a weakness to be eliminated. Fear is a signal. It prepares the body to act when something threatens safety, survival, or stability. […]
Sorites Paradox And Its Effects on Krav Maga Training
Why Gradual Change Escapes Detection The paradox of the heap Earlier this month, I was cleaning the windows at the studio. It was ordinary work. The kind you do between classes, without ceremony, without assigning meaning to it. At some point, I stopped and looked at the rag in my hand. It was […]
The Ethics of Self-Defense
Self Defense As a Core Value The Ethics of Self-Defense Under Pressure The ethics of self-defense are not simple. Anyone who claims they are has not spent time around real violence or real people. Force exists. Responsibility exists. The work begins when we stop pretending either can be avoided. I recently read Gillian Russell’s essay […]
Why Do People Resist Change?
Why Do People Resist a Positive Change? The phenomenon of people praying for a positive change in their lives, but when the chance finally presents itself, they refuse it – interests me on a personal level. Why hold keys that can’t open new doors? Why keep looking at the same landscape if you don’t […]
The Holidays Are Not About What You Get
Why the Spirit of Giving Has Been Replaced by Spending The holidays arrive with a loud promise. Family. Warmth. Togetherness. Joy. For some people, that promise lands gently. For others, it lands like a reminder of what never was. Not everyone has a supportive family. Not everyone has a table that feels safe to sit […]
Bondi Beach Attack During Hanukkah
Bondi Beach Hanukkah Attack: Antisemitism, Survival, and the Obligation to Act During a Jewish gathering on Bondi Beach, celebrating Hanukkah, Jews were murdered because of who they are. It was not random. It was not incidental. There were multiple attackers, not a lone individual acting in isolation. To be precise, the attackers were a […]
Time Will Not Make You Stronger. Training Will
You Are Running Out of “Later.” In the future, we all plan on being better. We tell ourselves that soon we’ll train, eat cleaner, save money, learn the skill we’ve been avoiding, and finally show up as the person we imagine. We build entire identities around future intentions. We promise that one day we’ll get […]
Why Time Slows Down in a Fight
The Science Behind Tunnel Vision in a Fight- There is a moment in every real conflict where the world stops behaving the way you expect. Time stretches. Movements look slow. Your awareness narrows until only one thing matters. Later, when the danger passes and the mind tries to replay what happened, the memory is incomplete. […]
Fragility Is Celebrated: So Let’s Redefine Heroism
How a Culture That Fears Discomfort Lost Its Heroes This morning, I overheard a young woman in her twenties say to her friend, “You are such a hero.” I turned to see what she was talking about. Her friend had spoken up during a group project meeting and disagreed with her classmates. Calmly. Confidently. Nothing […]
