Constant Positions Awareness

Positional awareness in STARS Training is a comprehensive, systematic perspective for seeing complex, competitive environments.  A sense of position awareness is the ultimate confidence builder. When you can see the relative strengths and weaknesses of competitive positions and map the relationships among various positions, the future becomes easier to predict. Challenges seem less threatening and situations more controllable. Position awareness is the most basic form of adaptive strategy. It is the conceptual foundation for more advanced forms of competitive awareness.

Seeing and Using What Others Miss

Opportunity development builds up your existing position and helps you explore new areas successfully. In STARS Training, opportunity development is broken down into four skills: 1) Source Development, 2) Opportunity Identification, 3) Opportunity Evaluation and 4) Safe Experimentation. These skills give your life more momentum. While most people feel trapped in rut, as you master these skills, you instantly begin to see new opportunities all around you. You know how to use every openings you are given. Your moves are small, incremental advances that others cannot oppose. By advancing continuously and consistently without opposition, you win little victories every day and eventually build up powerful, winning positions.

Picking the Right Options Instantly

Situation response is the study of the appropriate response to specific challenges. In STARS Training, this area covers four skills,  1) Fast Response, 2) Creative Response, 3) Position Claiming, and 4) Position Security. This is the most detailed and advanced aspect of the science of strategy. Once mastered, you can make the most challenging decisions in a flash. You can see longer term into the future, recognized where various opportunities lead. You can respond appropriately to threats, avoiding unnecessary conflict. You can also identify the best methods for neutralizing an opponent.