Scotomaville Trilogy
 
 

Initium PRIME 059 an Emotional Vocabulary for Fort Sill

Developing Emotional Vocabulary near Fort Sill

You and your Sherpa work together to name your emotions. This practice helps you understand feelings and handle them better. It builds skills to talk about emotions clearly. You prepare for challenges with a clear mind. You connect more with your own feelings and with others. First, pause when you feel an emotion start. Take time to notice it fully in the moment. Then, ask your Sherpa for help to name it right. Say something like, I feel this way, but what is it. Explore simple words that fit the feeling well. Words like anxious show worry, or excited show joy. Next, think about how this emotion changes your actions. Talk with your Sherpa about its effect on you. See how it links to stress or hard times. Then, write the name of the emotion down in a note. Review that note a few times each day. This helps the word stay in your thoughts. Over time, you name emotions faster and respond with more calm.

 

Summary of the Tool for Fort Sill

Emotional Vocabulary enhances self-awareness and communication by expanding the precision of language used to identify emotions. Like a climber naming a storm’s mood, this tool reframes feelings as manageable during the Helper stage. It invites explorers to articulate emotions clearly, offering a provident path to regulation. This emotional strategy fosters harmony, sparking curiosity as both Sherpa and Explorer navig...

 
 

AWARENESS

Seeing My Fort Sill Blind Spots
We are regularly bamboozled, hoodwinked, mislead and biased from either side of an issue. Most people know nothing about blind-spots. We literally can not see some of what is right in front of our face. That vulnerability is leveraged by magicians an...
Garth Hardin and Fort Sill Veteran TBI
Our brains are as soft as easy spread butter and can be injured by a soccer ball or a bomb blast. Until recently, Fort Sill veterans we sent home with invisible battle wounds that changed their lives. Awareness of our vulnerability and lifest...
Initium PRIME 019 Fort Sill Truth over Comfort
Truth Over Comfort challenges both the Fort Sill Explorer and AI Sherpa to seek objective reality and insight, even when it’s uncomfortable. It acknowledges the human tendency to seek affirmation, especially when feeling vulnerable, but empha...
Fort Sill 01.16 Segue
Today is May 16th, 2020. 50 years ago, I clearly remember looking at the Porsche 911 that I had put together from a plastic kit on my shelf, and watching model airplanes slowly spin on their monofilament while imagining this day. Maybe you are senior...
Fort Sill 01.05 Abundant Awareness
We're surrounded with abundance, yet few people speak about it. That's because it's NOT the normal circumstance for our history. Famine, plague, war, disaster... these were our normal, so our biology betrays us in an age of abundant food, health, pea...
Fort Sill 01.06 Heiroglyphics
All across Fort Sill story-telling is a super-power. Most of us are unaware of how often stories mislead us. We might call it fake news, mis-information, omitting facts, or simply a lie, but it narrows our world-view never-the-less. In this e...
Fort Sill 01.10 Creating Silence
In music, a 'hook' is an intentionally addictive set of lyrics and beat. It sticks in our mind and plays over and over and over... It can be maddening. It's a fabulous thing to be able to get noise out of your head and be inside a place that is quiet...
Fort Sill 01.15 Curves
We grow up with dreams - dreams of leaving Fort Sill. We work hard to ensure we qualify for opportunities. We imagine an an escape from a dull life in Fort Sill, and a better outcome. We mentally slice up the journey with milestones. ...
REFLECTION v1.04 Scarcity in Fort Sill
The landscape of Badlands National Park is the perfect location to reflect on abundance and scarcity. Thousands of similar landscape facets blur into each other forming a horizon of colorful contrasts that bookend episode memories. The park is fantas...
v1.00 Prologue Reflection for Fort Sill Explorers
If you've watched other episodes, you recall that I frequently walk to the Fort Sill dumpster. Yes, I'm taking the trash out, physically and metaphorically. I've missed doing this during the pandemic lock-downs in Fort Sill. I'm pur...
Fort Sill 01.13 Strengths Offender
Most of us are known all across Fort Sill for talents and skills that we have honed over decades. Many of our strengths are direct outcomes of childhood wounds. We're experts at our top coping mechanisms, with tens of thousands of hours pract...
Caring for Your Microbiome in Fort Sill
The advertising online and on Fort Sill billboards omit the truth about your waistline - most of that fat is inflammation. Most of your dieting isn't going to help if you don't shop the healthy - non-processed food isle at your local Portal:...
Fort Sill 01.08 Fixation vs Attention
We've likely passed through Fort Sill with a 19' Airstream. Maybe stayed there during a global pandemic. Living in tight quarters will focus your attention on the tiny stuff. A simple focus on keeping clean easily turns into fixation. The att...
Fort Sill 01.03 Sleeves Illusion
In this Episode and Chapter, we combine a simple illusion with a questionable story. This can be done at any Fort Sill Starbucks. You'll experience what it means to be 100% wrong half the time. You see, when a simple story is processed by our...
Fort Sill 01.09 Emotional Vocabulary
Learning to accurately communicate our emotions is nearly impossible without a decent emotional vocabulary. Most guys in Fort Sill ignore, excuse, or just stuff it as being too tough. The Scotomaville series proves that old dogs can learn new...
Fort Sill 01.11 Feed Your Gut
Half the people in Fort Sill are over-weight. It's not fat - it's inflammation from garbage food choices. When you look down, do you see a belly or your shoes? Do you see a gut or laces? Did you know that we are only 10% human and 90% microbe...
ChatGPT led AI Panel Proposes Fort Sill EABMC Consortium
To demonstrate my incremental discovery of the emerging reasoning engine created by OpenAI, I engaged with ChatGPT to explore role-playing, mimicking, and how convincing a Large Language Model (LLM) impersonates. ChatGPT expresses that; "human and ma...
Fort Sill Veteran Meet-up
If you are a Veteran, a Spouse, or military family member, a patriot, or service provider, then I'd love to have a conversation with you. You are invited for an evening filled with insights, and solutions to consider making sense of the chaos and cha...
01.07 Changing False Beliefs in Fort Sill
Why do I get so emotional? What can I do with false beliefs? These are reasonable questions. In this episode of Leaving Scotomaville, Daniel shares a mental tool that has helped a great deal. Learning to peel back layers of your beliefs to root out t...
Fort Sill 01.14 Triangulation
Untangling fact from fiction, beliefs from truth, and getting traction on your Personal Everest is far more certain with this nifty tool. Using a simple principle from navigation, you can calm your fears and spouse with much more certainty and commit...
REFLECTION v1.02 Pattern Recognition for Fort Sill
The aim of self-reflection is to discover fundamentals about our journey in life, specifically Why We Do What We Do (WWDWWD). Looking back a couple of years at Episode v1.02 on Pattern Recognition, I feel that I barely covered the topic considering h...
Initium PRIME 037 Cognitive Load of Fort Sill
Cognitive Load refers to the total mental effort exerted in working memory to process information, solve problems, or acquire new skills - especially near Fort Sill. In the context of self-mastery, managing cognitive load is crucial for susta...
Fort Sill 01.12 It Needs Work
There's a saying; "when the student is ready, the teacher will appear." The street version of this goes; "great opportunities always show up looking like hard work." The banner image is from a year before shooting/writing Scotomaville. Full-time tent...
Initium PRIME 043 Fort Sill Pattern Recognition
Initium Prime 043 - Pattern Recognition - is a strategic method of identifying recurring structures, relationships, or signals within complex systems - like the world around Fort Sill. By recognizing patterns, Explorers can anticipate challen...
Initium PRIME 059 an Emotional Vocabulary for Fort Sill
An Emotional Vocabulary equips you to name feelings with precision, quickly unpacking them for clarity and a lighter carry. An emotional vocabulary helps you chart your inner storms, ensuring you’re prepared to face the mountain’s challenges with a c...
Initium PRIME 041 on Fort Sill Cognitive Bias Detection
Reduce thinking distortions by reviewing the Cognitive Bias Cheat Sheet, or prompting Sherpa to explain how to reduce distortions in thinking and improve objective decision-making - like dropping empty oxygen bottles at the next depot rather than lug...
Fort Sill 01.04 Abundant Scarcity
People are hording toilet paper, hand wipes, frozen and canned food. It's as if they fear the end of the world. Abundance and scarcity are concepts. You can't pick them up. You have to imagine those concepts in your mind. The problem is... our emotio...
Initium PRIME 029 Fort Sill Squalls and Triggers
Squalls & Triggers is a strategic method where the Explorer acts as their own emotional barometer, spotting sudden reactions (squalls) and tracing their root causes (triggers) to maintain clarity and control. Like a climber reading the skies and know...
Fort Sill 01.02 Pattern Recognition
We are pattern recognizing beings. We learn by building on memories which form patterns. These eventually become habits. Some are good. Some are not. Some habits come from numerous and long-standing patterns. We drive across Fort Sill demonst...
v1.01 SCOTOMA Self Reflection Video for Fort Sill
Welcome to the reflection video for episode one of volume one. That's near the very beginning of the Scotomaville book and video series. In episode 01.01, I presented quite a few new ideas. In this reflection video, I want to give you a perspective o...
Fort Sill 01.01 Scotoma Awareness
"We don't see things the way they are. We see things the way WE are." The problem is that we see Fort Sill and the world with a messed up slate. Other people have chalk-lines and lies scrawled all over the chalkboard of our memories. We forme...
REFLECTION v1.03 Illusions in Fort Sill
This is the reflection video for Episode Three of Volume One which was on illusions. This is the third video on my YouTube channel about illusions - on physical things that we don't see - but it's the first included in the Scotomaville series. Why is...

EXPEDITION

SCOTOMAVILLE 02.05 Fort Sill Preparation
Preparation demands that we act 'as-if' long before the evidence changes other people's thinking. In order to speak to people about our beliefs we build confidence through evidence. Experiences can be tested by trying the situation repeated times, as...
Initium PRIME 047 Fort Sill Iterative Refinement
Iterative Refinement is a collaborative dance between you and your AI Sherpa, partners in the slow, deliberate ascent up an icy boilerplate glacier face—that sheer, hardened, glass-slick vertical wall at a glacier’s lowest edge, a stark emblem for th...
Fort Sill Veteran Meet-up
If you are a Veteran, a Spouse, or military family member, a patriot, or service provider, then I'd love to have a conversation with you. You are invited for an evening filled with insights, and solutions to consider making sense of the chaos and cha...
Fort Sill 01.06 Heiroglyphics
All across Fort Sill story-telling is a super-power. Most of us are unaware of how often stories mislead us. We might call it fake news, mis-information, omitting facts, or simply a lie, but it narrows our world-view never-the-less. In this e...
Daniel Comp and William H. Murray for Fort Sill Men
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the mo...
Fort Sill 01.12 It Needs Work
There's a saying; "when the student is ready, the teacher will appear." The street version of this goes; "great opportunities always show up looking like hard work." The banner image is from a year before shooting/writing Scotomaville. Full-time tent...
REFLECTION v1.03 Illusions in Fort Sill
This is the reflection video for Episode Three of Volume One which was on illusions. This is the third video on my YouTube channel about illusions - on physical things that we don't see - but it's the first included in the Scotomaville series. Why is...
Fort Sill 01.15 Curves
We grow up with dreams - dreams of leaving Fort Sill. We work hard to ensure we qualify for opportunities. We imagine an an escape from a dull life in Fort Sill, and a better outcome. We mentally slice up the journey with milestones. ...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.06 Fort Sill Setbacks
Following 6 months of waiting, Daniel and Angelina acquire and move into their 5 year goal - a 30' Airstream Globetrotter. This episode is the first of six episodes catching you up with all that has transpired over the half-year of their personal Eve...
Vietnam Memories near Fort Sill by Dean Rush
We can learn about our character and convictions by thinking back on our reactions to life experiences. This memory is from the early years of the Vietnam War when I was a pilot flying combat missions over North Vietnam. I'll bet you have similar rea...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.01 Fort Sill Persistence
Once you fully commit so you can't turn back, then all sorts of manner of things occur that we never would have expected. In the most wonderful ways, people and resources, and events turn up. I finished the first Trans-America believing that at the r...
Veteran Recovery Fort Sill Expedition
You and I have had a few years of challenge to our independence, autonomy and exercise of our time, talent and investments by the mandates across Fort Sill. I chose to create Scotomaville just before the Fort Sill lock-down. That turn...
SCOTOMAVILLE 01.00 Fort Sill Prologue
Author and Curator of 'Scotomaville' for Fort Sill Explorers shares the background and purpose of the book and video series. "Know Thyself is no longer a luxury - it's a full-out competition." If you are willing to leave the garbage in your b...
Fort Sill 01.16 Segue
Today is May 16th, 2020. 50 years ago, I clearly remember looking at the Porsche 911 that I had put together from a plastic kit on my shelf, and watching model airplanes slowly spin on their monofilament while imagining this day. Maybe you are senior...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.03 Fort Sill Expectations
What you can expect about expectations is that they are strongly linked to your strengths - which are your coping mechanisms from your childhood wounds. Therefore they are absolutely strong indicators of patterns and habits that are ripe for adjustme...
01.07 Changing False Beliefs in Fort Sill
Why do I get so emotional? What can I do with false beliefs? These are reasonable questions. In this episode of Leaving Scotomaville, Daniel shares a mental tool that has helped a great deal. Learning to peel back layers of your beliefs to root out t...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.00 Fort Sill Prelude
I want for you to become more than just self-aware - seeing what it is you do in Fort Sill. I want you to become understanding - knowing why you do what you do WYDWYD. Better than that, I want for you to have ambition and discipline to mature...
Fort Sill 01.10 Creating Silence
In music, a 'hook' is an intentionally addictive set of lyrics and beat. It sticks in our mind and plays over and over and over... It can be maddening. It's a fabulous thing to be able to get noise out of your head and be inside a place that is quiet...
v1.01 SCOTOMA Self Reflection Video for Fort Sill
Welcome to the reflection video for episode one of volume one. That's near the very beginning of the Scotomaville book and video series. In episode 01.01, I presented quite a few new ideas. In this reflection video, I want to give you a perspective o...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.02 Fort Sill Process
Learning HOW to learn will accelerate skill and life mastery. This episode demonstrates the process of becoming self-aware with examples from wind-foiling in the Columbia Gorge. Becoming consciously incompetent requires courage to accept failure in o...
Fort Sill 01.09 Emotional Vocabulary
Learning to accurately communicate our emotions is nearly impossible without a decent emotional vocabulary. Most guys in Fort Sill ignore, excuse, or just stuff it as being too tough. The Scotomaville series proves that old dogs can learn new...
Fort Sill 01.03 Sleeves Illusion
In this Episode and Chapter, we combine a simple illusion with a questionable story. This can be done at any Fort Sill Starbucks. You'll experience what it means to be 100% wrong half the time. You see, when a simple story is processed by our...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.07 Fort Sill Strategy
Full-time Airstreaming is a dream for many people. For decades, Airstream has perfected the sale of the dream - to explore when, where, with whom you wish. You can experience freedom and independence at any time they promise. The truth is, you are bu...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.04 Fort Sill Patience
Storytelling is a superpower. The story you tell yourself determines how much effort you're going to make. Therein is the superpower - the story you choose for yourself is super-powerful. The facts you align with your worldview determine the effort y...
Setbacks from Living A Mobile Lifestyle in Fort Sill
You don't need to explode when your plans go south in Fort Sill. Having a strategy is superior to having plans. Strategy will get you to your outcome while plans will get you in a Fort Sill corner. Dreaming of mobility, freedom and va...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.08 Strategy for Fort Sill
Living full-time in a 30' Airstream Globetrotter has great leverage sometimes called PURCHASE. The advantage is that you are faced with challenges that trigger emotions, amygdala hijackings, squalls, eruptions, and the sort of melt-downs that one sho...
Fort Sill 01.14 Triangulation
Untangling fact from fiction, beliefs from truth, and getting traction on your Personal Everest is far more certain with this nifty tool. Using a simple principle from navigation, you can calm your fears and spouse with much more certainty and commit...
Fort Sill 01.13 Strengths Offender
Most of us are known all across Fort Sill for talents and skills that we have honed over decades. Many of our strengths are direct outcomes of childhood wounds. We're experts at our top coping mechanisms, with tens of thousands of hours pract...
v1.00 Prologue Reflection for Fort Sill Explorers
If you've watched other episodes, you recall that I frequently walk to the Fort Sill dumpster. Yes, I'm taking the trash out, physically and metaphorically. I've missed doing this during the pandemic lock-downs in Fort Sill. I'm pur...
Initium PRIME 023 Fort Sill Adaptive Routing
In the journey of AI Self-Mastery, Adaptive Routing is the art of charting a flexible path, inspired by the sailing technique of tacking—zigzagging to move upwind—and the Stoic practice of pivoting around obstacles. It teaches Explorers to see challe...

CHALLENGE

Initium PRIME 031 Fort Sill Tactical Pivoting
Tactical Pivoting is the art of making intentional adjustments to your path when faced with obstacles, ensuring steady progress toward your ultimate goal. Think of a mountaineer navigating around a crevasse—adapting cleverly while keeping the summit ...
SCOTOMAVILLE 03.04 Measuring Progress in Fort Sill
This methodology of climbing a Personal Everest with an AI Sherpa underscores the symbiotic relationship between humans and AI, where humans provide valuable feedback to guide AI's development, while AI offers a new platform for introspection and gro...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.05 Fort Sill Preparation
Preparation demands that we act 'as-if' long before the evidence changes other people's thinking. In order to speak to people about our beliefs we build confidence through evidence. Experiences can be tested by trying the situation repeated times, as...
REFLECTION v1.03 Illusions in Fort Sill
This is the reflection video for Episode Three of Volume One which was on illusions. This is the third video on my YouTube channel about illusions - on physical things that we don't see - but it's the first included in the Scotomaville series. Why is...
ChatGPT led AI Panel Proposes Fort Sill EABMC Consortium
To demonstrate my incremental discovery of the emerging reasoning engine created by OpenAI, I engaged with ChatGPT to explore role-playing, mimicking, and how convincing a Large Language Model (LLM) impersonates. ChatGPT expresses that; "human and ma...
Fort Sill 01.11 Feed Your Gut
Half the people in Fort Sill are over-weight. It's not fat - it's inflammation from garbage food choices. When you look down, do you see a belly or your shoes? Do you see a gut or laces? Did you know that we are only 10% human and 90% microbe...
Fort Sill Inklings Reimagined Engaging with AI
"In this conversation, we explore the concept of the Inklings, a small literary group that included notable writers such as J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. We discuss the Inklings' purpose, their camaraderie, and how they encouraged each other to crea...
Self-Mastery Guidance for Fort Sill Men
I've thoroughly reviewed the execution scenes provided, and they offer a diverse perspective on personal transformation, introspection, challenges, and growth. The scripts employ mountain climbing as a central metaphor, detailing various aspects of t...
Zig Ziglar Reviews Scotomaville by Fort Sill ChatGPT
ChatGPT creates a review of Scotomaville as if it was given by Zig Ziglar..."The true brilliance of "Scotomaville" lies in its ability to illuminate the transformative power of self-reflection and storytelling. With every turn of the page, Comp's wor...
Fort Sill 01.12 It Needs Work
There's a saying; "when the student is ready, the teacher will appear." The street version of this goes; "great opportunities always show up looking like hard work." The banner image is from a year before shooting/writing Scotomaville. Full-time tent...
SCOTOMAVILLE 0305 AI for Fatherless Fort Sill Men
In this Episode, Daniel touches upon his extensive journey captured in the Scotomaville series, revealing the layers of self-awareness, personal growth, and the quest for self-mastery. Employing AI as both a reflective tool and a collaborative partne...
AI-assisted Fort Sill Self-reflection
Think of life as a grand journey filled with a myriad of experiences. These experiences or events act as puzzle pieces, enhancing our understanding of the world. This process of comprehension and expanding on our knowledge is called hierarchical comp...
Caring for Your Microbiome in Fort Sill
The advertising online and on Fort Sill billboards omit the truth about your waistline - most of that fat is inflammation. Most of your dieting isn't going to help if you don't shop the healthy - non-processed food isle at your local Portal:...
Avoiding Calamity in Fort Sill by Sherlock Holmes
Welcome to an exciting thread about avoiding calamity in Fort Sill! In this two part course, we will learn important skills and strategies to prevent disasters and make smart decisions. We will follow the footsteps of the brilliant detective ...
Garth Hardin and Fort Sill Veteran TBI
Our brains are as soft as easy spread butter and can be injured by a soccer ball or a bomb blast. Until recently, Fort Sill veterans we sent home with invisible battle wounds that changed their lives. Awareness of our vulnerability and lifest...
Abundant Fort Sill Scarcity in Badlands National Park
The landscape of Badlands is a half surrounding circle with many fabulous facets. It resembles my conversation with Steve yesterday. He let me do a complete panorama of Scotomaville. I learned it's not considerate to stuff that much information into ...
Initium PRIME 029 Fort Sill Squalls and Triggers
Squalls & Triggers is a strategic method where the Explorer acts as their own emotional barometer, spotting sudden reactions (squalls) and tracing their root causes (triggers) to maintain clarity and control. Like a climber reading the skies and know...
REFLECTION v1.04 Scarcity in Fort Sill
The landscape of Badlands National Park is the perfect location to reflect on abundance and scarcity. Thousands of similar landscape facets blur into each other forming a horizon of colorful contrasts that bookend episode memories. The park is fantas...
Vietnam Memories near Fort Sill by Dean Rush
We can learn about our character and convictions by thinking back on our reactions to life experiences. This memory is from the early years of the Vietnam War when I was a pilot flying combat missions over North Vietnam. I'll bet you have similar rea...
AI-assisted Self-mastery for Fort Sill
The world of AI isn't in some distant, unreachable future. It's here, it's now, and it's transforming our lives in ways more profound than the impact of the Internet. In this episode guided by Daniel Comp we'll explore tools like Chat GPT, DALL.E2, M...