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Jason Jefferies's Blog – July 2012 Archive (1)

The Benefits of Realism in Training

“No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.” Edmund Burke

Fear, as well as the synonymous emotions and actions that accompany it, has no place in the fire service. For us to examine this powerful emotion, you must understand the type of fear that I am discussing. We all have trivial fears, and these are not what I want to focus upon; fear of being late for roll call, fear of not getting a raise in the coming fiscal year,…

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Added by Jason Jefferies on July 4, 2012 at 2:30pm — No Comments

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