OODA ni kansuru nō [OODA に関する脳]
Our sensory systems utilize our consciousness to process data the system receives. This information we allow into said consciousness is extremely important, you can say critical, in determining the content and quality of survival especially involving potential conflicts and possible violence.
Attention, it is our attention that selects relevant bits of stimulus from a potential millions of bits od available data. It takes attention to retrieve appropriate references from memory, to evaluate the references of an event, and then choose (decide) the correct and appropriate thing to do (act). Sound familiar?
Retrieval from memory storage and bringing it into attentive focus of awareness, comparing, evaluating, and deciding, all require the attention of the mind's processing capacity (a very limited capacity).
This is how all brains function and to beat out another's loop say in a violent conflict is about how we learn to use this priceless resource and come from training, understanding, practicing, and experiencing consciousness, attention, decisiveness, and relevant and appropriate actions.
This may seem less automatic as we have been taught when encoding training and practice into so-called instinct automation but the truth is it's all about shortening one's line so we achieve actions a tiny bit faster than our adversary.
As the Colonel explains getting from observation to action is about practice, practice, practice AND training, training, training AND experiences, experiences, experiences!
In short, "The person in control of consciousness has the ability to focus attention at will, to be oblivious to distractions, to concentrate for as long as it taked to achieve a goal, and no longer." - Csikszentmihalyi
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