Jeff Cooper covered it pretty well in "Principles of Personal Defense" about 50 years ago.
You can buy it from Amazon for about $15:
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The most important means of surviving a lethal confrontation, according to Cooper, is neither the weapon nor the martial skills. The primary tool is the combat mindset, set forth in his book, Principles of Personal Defense. Considered by many to be one of the greatest books on combat mindset and proper defensive mental conditioning ever written
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http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Per.../dp/1581604955
I believe there's a PDF of it here:
http://www.twistedwiretactical.com/T...lf_Defense.pdf
Cooper's mind set principles:
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Principle One: Alertness
Principle Two: Decisiveness
Principle Three: Aggressiveness
Principle Four: Speed
Principle Five: Coolness
Principle Six: Ruthlessness
Principle Seven: Surprise
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He also developed a useful and popular color code that describes the escalating levels of alertness, which are part of the chapter on Awareness if I remember correctly:
http://www.policeone.com/police-trai...nal-awareness/