Scotomaville Trilogy
 
 

Mentoring for Young Men by Georgetown Military Veterans

As the Author/Curator of Scotomaville, I hold a deep respect for fellow Veterans, their families, businesses, and community. This program will make sense of chaos, the strategies dividing our relationships, and the road ahead for all participants.

If you are a Georgetown military Veteran, a Purple Heart recipient, or feel a deep sense of commitment to God, Country, the Georgetown Community, your Family, and your personal mental health and longevity, then consider the challenge of a Personal Everest. Participate in a small group of young men and supportive veteran men of valor.

Stuart Varney (@stuartvarney) believes history is an excellent teacher - if we are paying attention. The Roman Em...

 
 

AWARENESS

Georgetown 01.06 Heiroglyphics
All across Georgetown 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...
v1.01 SCOTOMA Self Reflection Video for Georgetown
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...
Georgetown 01.09 Emotional Vocabulary
Learning to accurately communicate our emotions is nearly impossible without a decent emotional vocabulary. Most guys in Georgetown ignore, excuse, or just stuff it as being too tough. The Scotomaville series proves that old dogs can learn new...
REFLECTION v1.03 Illusions in Georgetown
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...
Georgetown 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 Georgetown
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...
Georgetown 01.08 Fixation vs Attention
We've likely passed through Georgetown 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...
Georgetown 01.13 Strengths Offender
Most of us are known all across Georgetown 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...
Georgetown 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 Georgetown 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...
Georgetown 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...
Georgetown 01.11 Feed Your Gut
Half the people in Georgetown 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...
Georgetown 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...
Georgetown 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...
v1.00 Prologue Reflection for Georgetown Explorers
If you've watched other episodes, you recall that I frequently walk to the Georgetown dumpster. Yes, I'm taking the trash out, physically and metaphorically. I've missed doing this during the pandemic lock-downs in Georgetown. I'm pur...
Georgetown 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...
Georgetown 01.15 Curves
We grow up with dreams - dreams of leaving Georgetown. We work hard to ensure we qualify for opportunities. We imagine an an escape from a dull life in Georgetown, and a better outcome. We mentally slice up the journey with milestones. ...
Caring for Your Microbiome in Georgetown
The advertising online and on Georgetown 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:...
REFLECTION v1.02 Pattern Recognition for Georgetown
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...
Georgetown 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 Georgetown demonst...
Garth Hardin and Georgetown 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, Georgetown veterans we sent home with invisible battle wounds that changed their lives. Awareness of our vulnerability and lifest...
Georgetown 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...
Georgetown 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...
Seeing My Georgetown 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...
REFLECTION v1.04 Scarcity in Georgetown
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...
Georgetown 01.03 Sleeves Illusion
In this Episode and Chapter, we combine a simple illusion with a questionable story. This can be done at any Georgetown Starbucks. You'll experience what it means to be 100% wrong half the time. You see, when a simple story is processed by our...

EXPEDITION

REFLECTION v1.03 Illusions in Georgetown
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...
Veteran Recovery Georgetown 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 Georgetown. I chose to create Scotomaville just before the Georgetown lock-down. That turn...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.08 Strategy for Georgetown
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...
v1.00 Prologue Reflection for Georgetown Explorers
If you've watched other episodes, you recall that I frequently walk to the Georgetown dumpster. Yes, I'm taking the trash out, physically and metaphorically. I've missed doing this during the pandemic lock-downs in Georgetown. I'm pur...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.02 Georgetown 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...
Georgetown 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...
Georgetown 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...
v1.01 SCOTOMA Self Reflection Video for Georgetown
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...
01.07 Changing False Beliefs in Georgetown
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 01.00 Georgetown Prologue
Author and Curator of 'Scotomaville' for Georgetown 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 Georgetown Prelude
I want for you to become more than just self-aware - seeing what it is you do in Georgetown. 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...
Georgetown 01.15 Curves
We grow up with dreams - dreams of leaving Georgetown. We work hard to ensure we qualify for opportunities. We imagine an an escape from a dull life in Georgetown, and a better outcome. We mentally slice up the journey with milestones. ...
Georgetown 01.13 Strengths Offender
Most of us are known all across Georgetown 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...
Georgetown 01.06 Heiroglyphics
All across Georgetown 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...
Georgetown 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 02.01 Georgetown 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...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.05 Georgetown 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...
Georgetown 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...
Georgetown 01.03 Sleeves Illusion
In this Episode and Chapter, we combine a simple illusion with a questionable story. This can be done at any Georgetown Starbucks. You'll experience what it means to be 100% wrong half the time. You see, when a simple story is processed by our...
Georgetown 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 02.07 Georgetown 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 Georgetown 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...
Vietnam Memories near Georgetown 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 02.03 Georgetown 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...
Georgetown 01.09 Emotional Vocabulary
Learning to accurately communicate our emotions is nearly impossible without a decent emotional vocabulary. Most guys in Georgetown ignore, excuse, or just stuff it as being too tough. The Scotomaville series proves that old dogs can learn new...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.06 Georgetown 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 Georgetown
You don't need to explode when your plans go south in Georgetown. Having a strategy is superior to having plans. Strategy will get you to your outcome while plans will get you in a Georgetown corner. Dreaming of mobility, freedom and va...

CHALLENGE

REFLECTION v1.03 Illusions in Georgetown
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...
Garth Hardin and Georgetown 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, Georgetown veterans we sent home with invisible battle wounds that changed their lives. Awareness of our vulnerability and lifest...
Georgetown 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...
Caring for Your Microbiome in Georgetown
The advertising online and on Georgetown 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:...
Vietnam Memories near Georgetown 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 02.05 Georgetown 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 v1.04 Scarcity in Georgetown
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...
Georgetown 01.11 Feed Your Gut
Half the people in Georgetown 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...
Abundant Georgetown 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 ...