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Two factors that affect your O.O.D.A. loop during the Orient step are Denial and Emotional Filter. Denial is when you refuse to accept or Deny that this is happening to you. Emotional Filter is a lot like Denial except that you wish that this were not happening. “Oh man, please don’t let this be happening”. Both of these things can and will affect your reaction time but fortunately they can be overcome with training as this commonly happens with people who have little or no training.
Boyd’s O.O.D.A Loop and How We Use It
Tracy A. Hightower
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This Is Def My Fave Hack...
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I couldn’t believe I spent literal decades confused about people’s behaviors, and it only now occurred to me that I could get better at it. I had received SO many clues and data points my entire life, but my model. Never. Updated. I watched TV and film with new eyes now. Every [TV show was now a puzzle](https://x.com/DefenderOfBasic/status/1766819164352589852), the question was: why are the characters doing this? what will they do next? (I would literally pause and try to make this prediction and then keep going).
My enjoyment of film skyrocketed, and I became obsessed with what truths I could extract. For the first time in my life, I had strong opinions about what a character “should” have done. **I saw myself and the director on equal footing: both of us are looking out into the world and trying to capture a predictive model of people**.
Geoffrey Hinton on Developing Your Own Framework for Understanding Reality
defenderofthebasic.substack.com
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