Can an average person who works a full time job become capable enough to rival a secret agent like James Bond or John Wick on their own ?
Can an average person who works a full time job become capable enough to rival a secret agent like James Bond or John Wick on their own ?
If so what kind of training they would have to go through ? By training I mean the spatial and situational awareness, combat skills (this is kinda unrealistic), enough knowledge to turn any situation to their advantage etc.
Just think of the person as your average joe who financially has nothing to spend on high tech gadgets or state of the art training equipment. And doesn't even have any support from another human being. Basically one has to train from the ground up alone.
Don't limit the answers to just James Bond and John wick, you can even consider any realistically possible superhero or supervillain (like batman or taskmaster) as well.
So what's your take ?
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Well they say its ten thousand hours of practice to master a skill right.
Assuming you already work 8 and sleep 8 travel and maintenance stuff for 2 that leaves you 6 houra a day to dedicate to one aspect of spy craft.
That would take roughly 4 and a half years.
So then you're an expert in firearms
Now you need to learn hand to hand combat so again 10000 hours but you need to maintain currency with firearms so you only have 5 hours a day to practice now it's nearly 5 and a half years to become an expert.
So we're at 10 years to learn gun control and hand to hand combat.
Havent even touched on spatial awareness stuff along with driving flying jet ski riding and seduction.
Okay, so if you start in your early 20s, you might make it by the time you are in your 50s. We can also use some hours over the weekend. This sounds like a totally doable thing
It’s also way more doable if you quit your current job and find another career that will not only encourage training in these areas, but financially compensate you for it, too.
What are we waiting for??!?!
…and just like that, another dickhead cop is created.
I guess joining the military may help. Especially since one can get a lot of training with guns there.
As much as I would like to attempt, my chances are close to none because of low vision.
Now that would be an interesting movie. You have a guy who really loved action hero movies as a kid and spent his life honing those skills. Not because he really wants to kill anyone, but just because it's fun. He spends his professional career as a mundane office worker until one day a group of terrorists take over his office building and plan on killing everyone inside. He has to fight his way through multiple floors of trained killers to get to the top so he can take down the chief bad guy, The Raid/Judge Dredd style. Realistically, he would definitely die within like 2 minutes from getting shot in the back of the head, but it's still a fun setup for an "unlikely hero" action movie.
He's a sysadmin and he doesn't do downtime
This used to be one my daydreams as a teenager. Except in real life, I couldn't consistently train like I wanted.
After reading Atomic Habits by James clear last year - I realized how much I could have improved during those years had I kept at it.
But just like you said everything can be ended anytime with a single gun shot or some quick stabs from the back.