Hey guys Chris Sajnog author of Navy SEAL shooting it goes on sale August
31st but you can pre-order it right now on Amazon so make sure you go do that
well today I'm gonna teach you why it is for experienced shooters that sometimes
it's harder for you guys to get better and and learn new things and perfect
your skills so let's go ahead and get started
alright so if you're an experienced shooter you may have noticed that you
you might have got to kind of a plateau or you're you're trying to really get
better and hone your skills and you're finding it a lot harder to do so and
there's some reasons why there's three of them that I want to go over and I
think if you concentrate on them it's really going to help make you a better
shooter so the first one if you've read any of my stuff you know is cognitive
dissonance and what that is is it's your minds natural kind of ability or desire
to fight against anything new so let's say that your dad taught you how to
shoot and you know you love your dad or your grandpa or whoever it was and
you've been training and learning to shoot this one way and then you know
somebody comes along and shows you a different way to shoot and what
cognitive dissonance is is that's your mind naturally fighting against that and
just telling telling you that it's not going to work so you need to fight
against that that kind of bias that your mind has to any new information so you
can't improve the next thing that comes into play is when you learn a skill such
as shooting what you're doing is you're taking all the individual parts of
shooting such as your stance and your grip and your trigger control and
focusing on the front sight all the different parts and you're moving them
from conscious thought into your subconscious thought so when you are
shooting the more things you move into your subconscious the easier it is for
you for you to shoot now if any of those things are not perfect and let's take
your your grip for instance so let's say you weren't gripping the gun you know
perfect for you and but you've engrained it into your subconscious thought well
then you learn a different way to grip the gun and although it's better you are
going to have to now consciously think about how you grip the gun to be able to
use that and when you do that that takes extra effort and in that shooting now
feels cumbersome it doesn't feel right you know you used to shoot so well
you could start shooting and you very well may start shooting
even worse using this new grip even though the grip is better so don't give
up on on learning new things you are going to go through a point or a phase
where you're you know you're gonna have a little dip and you're not going to be
shooting as well but you've got to fight through that instill for instance that
grip into your subconscious and once you do you'll be not just back up to where
you were but you'll now be able to exceed where you were because you're
using better technique so that's the second reason so we've got cognitive
dissonance and then we've got moving things from our subconscious back into
our conscious thought to be able to improve them the third one is it's
really pretty obvious and we may not want to admit it but it's being a new
guy again it's it's when you take something new and and I say hey try this
out it's hard for anybody it's hard for me sometimes for people to say you know
hey Chris you I know you have been shooting for a while but you could do
this technique a little better so you kind of have to take a step back and you
know not be so you know have so much pride to say you know what let me try
that out so you know being a new guy in the teams was not fun so I don't ever
want to go back and do that again but being a new guy is often the only way to
get better at things so don't be afraid to take a step back to move forward in
any of your training remember those three tips fight against cognitive
dissonance remember that when you learn something new you're you could very well
have a dip and not shoot as well but you'll come out the other end better and
then don't be afraid of being the new guy so remember those things if you're
an experienced shooter and you're having problems getting better if you work on
those three things you will get better if you have any questions or comments
make sure you leave them below in the comments area and until next time keep
paving your path to perfect