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Develop the ability to "look down from on top" at your situation.
Whether you are an SF candidate or an SF soldier, in fact, in any job (or sport) try to develop the ability to mentally "step outside your body" and look down on the situation from a high vantage point.
Where are you?
What are you doing?
Why are you doing it?
Who is to your left, your right, in front and behind you?
Are you moving?
If yes, from where, to where, at what speed? Do you see the route "from above" with you and your unit moving along the route? Not just one foot in front of the other foot.
Think of yourself in the third person. Are you tired? Hurt? Lost? Do you know what your LBE & gear looks like as if it were being seen by an outside observer.
You can't "zone out," get tunnel vision, and follow the rucksack of the man in front of you.
The two men who have the least idea about what is going on the the boxing ring are the boxers. Those on the sidelines looking in can see what is happening, who is tired, who is dropping his guard, who is moving with speed. The same applies in a football game (a better example is a soccer game). The best players have the ability to form a mental picture of the field not by simply looking at eye level to the nearest player, but to visualize the entire field as if on high.
Even as a criminal defense attorney in a jury trial I try to "look down" from on top as the trial progresses. Who is testifying, who is out in the waiting room to testify. What has been said, what remains to be said. How is the jury and the judge reacting. What is the District Attorney doing. If I was an impartial commentator watching from a TV control room how would I explain how the trial is going.
I don't know if I've explained it well, but that's the idea.
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