No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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USMMA 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 USMMA 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...


USMMA 01.03 Sleeves Illusion

In this Episode and Chapter, we combine a simple illusion with a questionable story. This can be done at any USMMA Starbucks. You'll experience what it means to be 100% wrong half the time. You see, when a simple story is processed by our...


USMMA 01.09 Emotional Vocabulary

Learning to accurately communicate our emotions is nearly impossible without a decent emotional vocabulary. Most guys in USMMA ignore, excuse, or just stuff it as being too tough. The Scotomaville series proves that old dogs can learn new...


USMMA 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...


USMMA Airstream Self-Help Book

Stuff breaks, and goes missing, even when your Airstream is stored near USMMA. The shower head will freeze and crack. The drain petcock for the fresh water tank will also freeze - even though you drained the tank! USMMA mice w...


USMMA Airstream Self-Help Video Series

The SCOTOMAVILLE Self-Help Video Series demonstrates how we are gamed, hood-winked, and bamboozled by the super-computers pointed at our brains. Our biology and habits can do little to challenge the rapidly accelerating change we're flooded by. It's ...


USMMA Airstream Self-Help Workbook

Why bother? Why make the effort to create a self-help workbook and video series for USMMA Airstreamers? Author and Curator of 'Scotomaville', Daniel Comp shares the background and purpose of the workbook and self-help video series using s...


USMMA Veteran Counselor Training

This USMMA veteran Counselor training is in-person, and highly interactive. It is filled with hands-on exercises, live and video recorded demonstrations that are insightful and thought provoking. You'll see your physical blind-spots, unde...


USMMA Veteran Counselor Workshop

Created for Veteran Counselors near USMMA, this workshop is a very interactive and participatory event. You'll finish each session with unexpected insights from thought provoking experiences. The Scotomaville workshop is in-person, and hi...


USMMA Veteran Staff Training

The Scotomaville USMMA Veteran Staff Training is decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours! It's an in-person introduction to the 336 page book, and 48 video episodes, packed into seven hours of attention grabbing examples, truths, an...


USMMA Veteran Staff Workshop

This USMMA veteran staff workshop is in-person, and highly interactive. This is decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours! It is filled with hands-on exercises to see your physical blind-spots, understand your thinking short-cuts, and...


USMMA Veteran Workshop Syllabus

This is a very interactive and participatory workshop. You'll finish each session with unexpected insights from thought provoking experiences. It is also an introduction to the 336 page book, and 48 video episodes, packed into seven hours of attentio...


USMMA Veterans Self-help Series

We start most adventures with more energy, and far less knowledge. We usually get fired up like a Fiat 500, unaware of the challenges ahead. We think the adventure is all about discovering new lands, unaware that it is all about seeing with new eyes....


AI Sentience by Hierarchical Computation of USMMA Mentors

This conversation is fascinating in that ChatGPT responds to my interaction 'as-if' it is self-aware, expressing gratitude for our conversation. "Indeed, there is a sense of irony and self-reflection in our conversation... Thank you for pointing out ...


My Mind's Wellness for USMMA

This is the Scotomaville feature in the upcoming 365 spot book on mental wellness entitled My Mind's Wellness. Learn about scotomas and a cognitive bias cheat sheet developed by Buster Benson. You can live well in USMMA with an understand...


Personal Development Groups by Daniel Comp for USMMA

Personal development begins with literacy. Learning words helps us to develop awareness because we have a label for the event, idea, experience, and much more. Escaping tyranny demands free speech - starting with our self-talk, and interpersonal comm...


SCOTOMAVILLE 01.00 USMMA Prologue

Author and Curator of 'Scotomaville' for USMMA 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 USMMA Prelude

I want for you to become more than just self-aware - seeing what it is you do in USMMA. 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...


Seeing My USMMA 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...


Self-Reflection Training Certification for USMMA

Self-Reflection combined with video modeling is a promising behavioral intervention that has myriad applications. It is an evidence-based strategy that is effective across ages and populations. The Scotomaville Self-Reflection Training and Certificat...


v1.00 Prologue Reflection for USMMA Explorers

If you've watched other episodes, you recall that I frequently walk to the USMMA dumpster. Yes, I'm taking the trash out, physically and metaphorically. I've missed doing this during the pandemic lock-downs in USMMA. I'm pur...


v1.01 SCOTOMA Self Reflection Video for USMMA

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...


Veteran Recovery USMMA 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 USMMA. I chose to create Scotomaville just before the USMMA lock-down. That turn...


Video Modeling Training Certification for USMMA

The Scotomaville Video Modeling Training and Certification Program for USMMA is a supplemental tool for therapists and service providers to guide highly functioning Asperger adults and USMMA Aspergians. The program also transf...


Why I Created SCOTOMAVILLE for USMMA

The journey out of USMMA starts with knowing how vulnerable you are and how easily you are bamboozled and duped and hoodwinked and long conned and gamed. There are a dozen ways that local USMMA stories and richly tossed emotio...