Warrior Mindset: Mental Toughness Skills to Meet Every Challenge
Ebook
Overview
This practical guide teaches readers to meet stressful or dangerous situations with a combat-ready mentality.
In high-stress situations—especially ones where lives are on the line—mental toughness is essential. But while many agree on the importance of this psychological skill set, few ever provide practical training in how to achieve it. Warrior Mindset explains concrete steps and techniques to develop a survival mindset and hardened focus.
This book offers an in-depth analysis of the subject. Describing the importance of mental toughness and presenting a method for readying the mind for combat, this text can help foster skills that will optimize performance, success, and survival in the field.
- Title: Warrior Mindset: Mental Toughness Skills to Meet Every Challenge
- Authors: Dave Grossman, Michael Asken, Loren W. Christensen, Brad Thor
- Publisher: Open Road Media
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781504077422, 1504077423
- Resource ID: LLS:9781504077422
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-21T14:50:28Z
Dr. Michael Asken is the retired psychologist for the Pennsylvania State Police, specifically the Special Emergency Response Team. He was involved with the selection and training of troopers, as well as cadet performance issues at the Pennsylvania State Police Academy where he also taught. Asken holds a BA in social & behavioral sciences from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD in clinical psychology at West Virginia University. He was a Division of Sport and Exercise Psychology fellow at the American Psychological Association. Asken has written articles for Police1, SWAT Digest, The Crisis Negotiator, The Tactical Edge, Law Officer, The Bulletin of the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police, and the FireArms Instructor.
A former army Ranger and paratrooper, Lt. Col. Dave Grossman taught psychology at West Point and was a Professor of Military Science at Arkansas State University. The author's website, Grossman On Truth, amplifies and extends the material covered in his books and is regularly updated with new, topical information on the subject.
Loren W. Christensen has published more than fifty books and dozens of magazine articles, and has been an editor for a police newspaper for nearly eight years. He has earned a first-degree black belt in arnis, a second-degree black belt in jujitsu, and an eighth-degree black belt in karate. In 2011, Christensen was inducted into the martial arts Masters Hall of Fame in Anaheim, California, receiving the Golden Life Achievement Award.