They’re deploying these upgrades for a practical purpose: accelerated learning. By using the tanks to eliminate all distraction, entrain specific brainwaves, and regulate heart rate frequency, the SEALs are able to cut the time it takes to learn a foreign language from six months to six weeks. For a specialized unit deployed across five continents, shutting off the self to accelerate learning has become a strategic imperative.
I really wish the book would have dove deeper into this rather than just make a passing reference to it. How do they study in the tanks? What is it about the tank that accelerates learning? Have there been studies on this? Are there takeaways here for the rest of us to build on?
