I took the long way to a few simple questions.
I’m Aron. I write, work in executive protection, train Jiu-Jitsu, travel a lot, and have a habit of pulling at an idea until the convenient answer falls apart.
For more than a decade, executive protection has been a large part of my working life. I’m Vice President of On Point Resources. The work has taken me through film productions, public appearances, press tours, international travel and plenty of days where the plan looked perfect right up until the world had another idea.
That work taught me a lot about preparation, pressure and judgment. Life taught me the rest, usually with less warning.
I started writing because I kept seeing the same patterns in very different places. People say one thing matters and build their days around another. Confidence gets mistaken for readiness. We defend identities our own habits keep contradicting. I wanted to understand why.
Protection work is not very interested in how prepared you feel. Eventually something tests the preparation.
I learned to notice before I label, to change the plan without becoming emotionally attached to having been right, and to keep unnecessary drama out of situations that already have enough moving parts.
Most of the useful work is quiet. If nobody needs to know how much went into making the day work, that is usually a good outcome.
Selected film-credit records include Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, Top Gun: Maverick, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, American Made, The Mummy and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back.
Some film databases list my credits under Aronicimo Richotti. IMDb has the full list.
I never had a dramatic moment where I decided to become a writer. I just kept finding questions I could not stop thinking about.
Why do we know what matters and still avoid it? Why does pressure expose things comfort hides? Why can someone be completely sincere about who they want to become while their days keep producing evidence for somebody else?
Writing gives me somewhere to slow those questions down long enough to see what is actually there. The Two Shot Method came out of one of them.
I’ve trained Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for years. It is a remarkably efficient way to discover that the brilliant plan in your head may have some structural problems. I like that about it.
Travel has a similar effect. Change the environment and a lot of assumptions you forgot were assumptions suddenly become visible. You notice more. You get things wrong. You adjust.
I don't want ideas that only work when nobody pushes on them. If better evidence breaks something I believe, good. I'd rather know.