How can someone think like the fictional character Batman?

I mean he is always prepared, like in any situation, he'll have something in his belt, glove, and mask, and just like Sherlock Holmes, he is a really good detective. Part of it is cause of family that he lost, but is it also obsession + being paranoid. I mean how does someone think like a Batman?How can someone think like the fictional character Batman?
Assuming for the moment that he's written by a decent writer, and not as a "Mary Sue" type (read: annoyingly perfect at all times)?



In current DC continuity, Batman has been doing this stuff (no, not the confusing time-travel stuff, I mean _his_ work, protecting Gotham, previously) for ten years straight, every night. He's taken vacations and been injured, yes, but that's still a lot of work being done from sheer force of habit. So with some of this stuff, he is on autopilot. It gets said a lot in the comics too--that the cowl _is_ Batman's real face, that Bruce Wayne is the disguise...basically, he's going to think like Batman first when he wakes up, and last when he finally crashes to his bed. His Hard Knock Life IS his life--everything else that comes with being an adult Bruce Wayne is just Bonus Material. It's optional but hardly necessary.



But how does one _start_ to think like that? Without having the burden of the childhood, the loss, the drivenness, and finally the years of habit, training and experience?



To some degree, it just can't happen. The Batman--either one of them, really--is a moiety. A mix. A blend of things. Take any one away and you lose balance, the center doesn't hold (Jean Paul Valley, anyone?).



But. The thing about Batman (the Bruce Wayne version) is that he's about his duality.



He is Vengeance (the rampaging, masked vigilante), _and_ he is The Knight (still does the detective work, still has honor, still doesn't kill--at least in current continuity).



He's a world-class detective, and an elite martial artist at the same time.



He has perfected his body _and_ his mind, at once. Many people aren't able to do this--either their perfection in one area sabotages another (jocks versus geeks), or their duality isn't well-matched and they just sort of muddle through on instinct (Chess Boxing, much? How do you see moves ahead after being punched repeatedly in the face?).



Honestly....Bruce Wayne is a billionaire, and for all that, he'd be _broke_ tomorrow if it brought his family back. He lost his mom and dad on the night of his _birthday_. He can have everything he wants....but what he wants. This is his hell, and this is what drives him to make sure nobody else goes to that hell.



I'm not saying you can't cultivate that duality, but it's not the healthiest thing. Not exactly sustainable.
Thanks kindly for the Best Answer. I appreciate it. ^__^ I think the thing of it is, it's not just the duality--the perfecting of body and mind. It's that the pair has to be an _inspired_ combination, not just any two will line up right... (more)

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How can someone think like the fictional character Batman?
(continued) like say, wall-crawling and wisecracks would, with Spider-Man, or like chocolate %26amp; peanut butter would for a Reese's. *lol* The pair sort of has to be driven together by real-life necessity, in a way that lets them work.

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He always has the right tool and knows the right answer because he is fictional. He was written by the same person who wrote the problem that he faces.How can someone think like the fictional character Batman?
Concentrate on your objective and say it to yourself with uncomfortable pauses between words.



For example, "MUST ......DEFEAT ......JOKER!"



Now you try...

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