Frame as Mental Robustness

Despite /u/Whisper 's excellent post on the subject 8 months ago, there's a lack of understanding about what frame is and why it is important. Frame is the resilience of the signal of your consciousness. It's what prevents external interference - arbitrary or intentional - from disrupting your intended method of internal operation. For tanks and CAS planes, it's armor. For satellites and coaxial cables, it's EMG shielding. For us, it's mental discipline: a learned skill.

If you have enlisted, your training is designed to endow your frame with resistance to overtly hostile environments to ensure you can operate internally as intended & carry out your task regardless of your current external circumstances.

As a civvie, you never got any training designed to endow your frame with resistance to covertly hostile environments & this ensures you won't operate as intended/carry out your purpose. Unless you had a father who did his job, that is.

Tanks, planes & satellites are complex systems that work because at some point all external factors are sterilized from the meaningful input so that the system is in a known state, where it can function properly - for us, this is the process of sensory gating and unfortunately it only covers limbic functions: your job is to develop a higher order version of it.

Develop it as a habit. When surrounded by mental poison so insidious that we don't notice it's gotten inside until we begin to exhibit painful symptoms of its final stages, focusing on noticing symptoms as early as possible by practicing self-awareness is futile. The habit you develop will precede self-awareness - train to catch things as they try to get in.

Prevention & resilience are the essence of frame. Nine times out of ten, know beforehand to not be navigated into a social faux pas, to not respond to a false presupposition, to not react, to ignore bratty attitude, to not forgo proper sleep/nutrition/exercise, to not be diverted from the things that benefit your future in favor of instant gratification.

The tenth time, look at the "pros" handling prevention lapses: socialites pretend their faux pas didn't occur, athletes train even if they didn't sleep well, conversationalists strike back on a different front - this is resilience. Possessing it within to triumph over covert mental interference in the form of Machiavellian tactics & strike back is equally crucial.