The first step in the decision cycle is Observing. This is analogous to the “situational awareness” that is often mentioned but rarely defined.
If it’s described at all, it’s with phrases like “Checking one’s six” or “scanning the environment”, but it’s entirely possible to look around and not see, and even seeing isn’t the same as observing. Reducing it to the simplest example, if you are lying on your back in your bed and you wake up and open your eyes, then photons are going to bounce off the ceiling and hit your retinas. You are looking at the ceiling, you are even seeing it, but you are not observing the ceiling, let alone the entirety of your room...
Go RTWT...
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| How many people in this picture are really aware of their surroundings? |
