The Secrets to Real Year One Training Superhero Training Revealed

Aquaman chewed off his own hand, are you willing to do it too?

Ok, so he didn’t chew it off.  I actually forgot what he did until I started writing, but let me tell you about it.

In Justice League (the cartoon), Aquaman is chained to a rock and basically pushed down a hill attached to this rock, his son is also trapped on it (who is a baby at the time).  Aquaman manages to pull himself free of one side of the chains, but realizes that he cannot remove the other side of the chain fast enough.  He has to make a hideous choice, as they both approach the lava below (I didn’t mention that, but that would have been certain doom even for him).  How can he save his son, get revenge, and remove the chain to make it all possible.  He removes a small knife from his belt buckle (which happened to be a knife for some reason) and begins to peck away at the stone, it’s not working.  So he makes the only choice possible, he hacks his hand off.

Next scene, we see him carrying his baby son and meeting up with his wife and the rest of the leaguers.  It is now that his wife notices that his hand is missing, and she asks him why, and his only reply is…

“Where is my brother?”

The brother was the one who did it to him, and he could now work on the 2^nd half of his plan… Getting revenge.

Yogi Berra (the famed baseball player on which many clichés seem to have spawned from) once was knocked silly while trying to interfere in a throw out.  When he came through, his first words were, “did we win?”

That’s the mindset of a superhero, and if you’re going to do anything in this life, you have to have that mind set.  Sometimes the world doesn’t make sense, and it truly is against you.  You have to make sacrifices just as bad as Aquaman, and the question is if you can really do it.

You need to develop this kind of steadfastness.  And one of the best ways to do this is to borrow from NLP (Neuro Lingustic Programming).  Neuro Lingustic Programming is the study of how successful people think, and believes that there is a code to how they work. The code lies in the way they think, and if you can emulate the code, you can become like them.

One of my favorite tactics is the borrowed head.  In this case, if you got into a situation you couldn’t think yourself out of, you imagine that you put on Aquaman’s head, and then think about what he would do in that situation and do it (obvioiusly this is demonstration, because the best way to open your stuck door, probably is not to hack your arm off).  But, in the right situation, like when you are down and out but you still have a goal, you can borrow Aquaman’s head and say to yourself.  What would Aquaman do in this situation, and the right answer would be, “put his head down and do what it takes to make this goal happen.”