Scotomaville Trilogy
 
 

Initium PRIME 059 an Emotional Vocabulary for Fort Belvoir

Developing Emotional Vocabulary near Fort Belvoir

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 Belvoir

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

Initium PRIME 029 Fort Belvoir 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 Belvoir 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 Belvoir 01.11 Feed Your Gut
Half the people in Fort Belvoir 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...
Initium PRIME 019 Fort Belvoir Truth over Comfort
Truth Over Comfort challenges both the Fort Belvoir 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 Belvoir 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...
Initium PRIME 043 Fort Belvoir 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 Belvoir. By recognizing patterns, Explorers can anticipate challen...
Fort Belvoir 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...
Fort Belvoir 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...
Fort Belvoir 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 Belvoir 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 Belvoir 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...
v1.01 SCOTOMA Self Reflection Video for Fort Belvoir
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...
ChatGPT led AI Panel Proposes Fort Belvoir 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 Belvoir 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 Belvoir demonst...
Initium PRIME 041 on Fort Belvoir 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...
REFLECTION v1.02 Pattern Recognition for Fort Belvoir
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...
Fort Belvoir 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...
01.07 Changing False Beliefs in Fort Belvoir
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...
v1.00 Prologue Reflection for Fort Belvoir Explorers
If you've watched other episodes, you recall that I frequently walk to the Fort Belvoir dumpster. Yes, I'm taking the trash out, physically and metaphorically. I've missed doing this during the pandemic lock-downs in Fort Belvoir. I'm pur...
Fort Belvoir 01.15 Curves
We grow up with dreams - dreams of leaving Fort Belvoir. We work hard to ensure we qualify for opportunities. We imagine an an escape from a dull life in Fort Belvoir, and a better outcome. We mentally slice up the journey with milestones. ...
Fort Belvoir 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 Belvoir 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...
Initium PRIME 059 an Emotional Vocabulary for Fort Belvoir
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...
REFLECTION v1.03 Illusions in Fort Belvoir
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 Belvoir 01.13 Strengths Offender
Most of us are known all across Fort Belvoir 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...
Fort Belvoir 01.08 Fixation vs Attention
We've likely passed through Fort Belvoir 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...
REFLECTION v1.04 Scarcity in Fort Belvoir
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...
Fort Belvoir 01.06 Heiroglyphics
All across Fort Belvoir 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...
Seeing My Fort Belvoir 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...
Fort Belvoir 01.09 Emotional Vocabulary
Learning to accurately communicate our emotions is nearly impossible without a decent emotional vocabulary. Most guys in Fort Belvoir ignore, excuse, or just stuff it as being too tough. The Scotomaville series proves that old dogs can learn new...
Garth Hardin and Fort Belvoir 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 Belvoir veterans we sent home with invisible battle wounds that changed their lives. Awareness of our vulnerability and lifest...
Initium PRIME 037 Cognitive Load of Fort Belvoir
Cognitive Load refers to the total mental effort exerted in working memory to process information, solve problems, or acquire new skills - especially near Fort Belvoir. In the context of self-mastery, managing cognitive load is crucial for susta...
Caring for Your Microbiome in Fort Belvoir
The advertising online and on Fort Belvoir 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 Belvoir 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...

EXPEDITION

SCOTOMAVILLE 02.03 Fort Belvoir 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...
Fort Belvoir 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...
Vietnam Memories near Fort Belvoir 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...
Initium PRIME 047 Fort Belvoir 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 Belvoir 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 Belvoir 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 Belvoir 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...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.08 Strategy for Fort Belvoir
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...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.07 Fort Belvoir 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...
REFLECTION v1.03 Illusions in Fort Belvoir
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...
v1.00 Prologue Reflection for Fort Belvoir Explorers
If you've watched other episodes, you recall that I frequently walk to the Fort Belvoir dumpster. Yes, I'm taking the trash out, physically and metaphorically. I've missed doing this during the pandemic lock-downs in Fort Belvoir. I'm pur...
Fort Belvoir 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 023 Fort Belvoir 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...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.02 Fort Belvoir 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...
v1.01 SCOTOMA Self Reflection Video for Fort Belvoir
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 Belvoir 01.06 Heiroglyphics
All across Fort Belvoir 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...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.05 Fort Belvoir 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...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.04 Fort Belvoir 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...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.01 Fort Belvoir 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...
Fort Belvoir 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...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.06 Fort Belvoir 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...
Setbacks from Living A Mobile Lifestyle in Fort Belvoir
You don't need to explode when your plans go south in Fort Belvoir. Having a strategy is superior to having plans. Strategy will get you to your outcome while plans will get you in a Fort Belvoir corner. Dreaming of mobility, freedom and va...
SCOTOMAVILLE 01.00 Fort Belvoir Prologue
Author and Curator of 'Scotomaville' for Fort Belvoir 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...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.00 Fort Belvoir Prelude
I want for you to become more than just self-aware - seeing what it is you do in Fort Belvoir. 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...
Veteran Recovery Fort Belvoir 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 Belvoir. I chose to create Scotomaville just before the Fort Belvoir lock-down. That turn...
Fort Belvoir 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 Belvoir 01.09 Emotional Vocabulary
Learning to accurately communicate our emotions is nearly impossible without a decent emotional vocabulary. Most guys in Fort Belvoir ignore, excuse, or just stuff it as being too tough. The Scotomaville series proves that old dogs can learn new...
Daniel Comp and William H. Murray for Fort Belvoir 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 Belvoir 01.13 Strengths Offender
Most of us are known all across Fort Belvoir 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...
01.07 Changing False Beliefs in Fort Belvoir
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 Belvoir 01.15 Curves
We grow up with dreams - dreams of leaving Fort Belvoir. We work hard to ensure we qualify for opportunities. We imagine an an escape from a dull life in Fort Belvoir, and a better outcome. We mentally slice up the journey with milestones. ...

CHALLENGE

Self-Mastery Guidance for Fort Belvoir 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 Belvoir 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...
Garth Hardin and Fort Belvoir 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 Belvoir veterans we sent home with invisible battle wounds that changed their lives. Awareness of our vulnerability and lifest...
Avoiding Calamity in Fort Belvoir by Sherlock Holmes
Welcome to an exciting thread about avoiding calamity in Fort Belvoir! 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 ...
REFLECTION v1.03 Illusions in Fort Belvoir
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...
Abundant Fort Belvoir 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 ...
Caring for Your Microbiome in Fort Belvoir
The advertising online and on Fort Belvoir 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:...
SCOTOMAVILLE 0305 AI for Fatherless Fort Belvoir 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...
ChatGPT led AI Panel Proposes Fort Belvoir 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 Belvoir 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...
AI-assisted Fort Belvoir 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...
SCOTOMAVILLE 03.04 Measuring Progress in Fort Belvoir
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...
Initium PRIME 029 Fort Belvoir 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 Belvoir
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...
AI-assisted Self-mastery for Fort Belvoir
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...
Fort Belvoir 01.11 Feed Your Gut
Half the people in Fort Belvoir 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...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.05 Fort Belvoir 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 031 Fort Belvoir 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 ...
Fort Belvoir 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...
Vietnam Memories near Fort Belvoir 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...