Order of Man - How to Make Better Decisions Using the OODA Loop ｜ FRIDAY FIELD NOTES

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00:01:32.140 learning to make decisions, because I think part of what being a man is all about is being decisive

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00:03:13.660 about being decisive. I said earlier that I think one of the things that makes a man, a man is his

00:03:18.140 ability to filter all of the information at hand, uh, and then being able to make an accurate and

00:03:25.440 well-researched decision, but to do it in a way that is, is efficient, that is effective. Of course,

00:03:33.500 the effectiveness is important. And also the timing as well. Uh, if you're sitting on the fence and,

00:03:38.220 and collecting all this data and, and never actually putting anything into play and never actually

00:03:43.460 making decisions, uh, you're going to get lapped, you're going to get passed up and you're going to

00:03:47.060 be passed up by those men who are able to be more decisive than you. And I believe that speed of

00:03:52.600 implementation, uh, is a key metric, a key skillset, a key ability in being able to be successful.

00:04:00.300 And I've got a framework that's not mine, uh, but one that I've implemented in my life that has

00:04:05.280 drastically, drastically helped me improve my ability to, uh, make decisions to be decisive and then

00:04:12.580 making the correct decisions. And that's called the OODA loop, which is an acronym OODA loop, uh,

00:04:19.080 created by air force retired, uh, Colonel John Boyd. And, uh, he used this, this framework or this

00:04:26.820 process to be able to, uh, use it better when it came to aerial combat and his operations in the

00:04:33.160 military. And a lot of LEOs and military members have picked up this framework and used it in order to

00:04:40.420 make effective decisions and then crush the enemy or combat the enemy or accomplish the mission at

00:04:45.620 hand. But it's, it's very applicable in our lives as well, whether you're in military combat or you're

00:04:50.960 simply trying to get a promotion at work or, or get yourself a date or reconnect with your wife or

00:04:55.540 connect with your kids. If you want to do that again, your ability to be decisive, to make decisions

00:05:00.760 quickly and to make the right ones is very, very important. So this isn't going to be a long drawn

00:05:05.560 out thing for you today, because it is very, uh, it's succinct, it's clear, it's articulate. And, uh,

00:05:10.900 I think you guys will get it here very, very quickly. And there's only four steps. So the first one

00:05:15.300 again, in OODA loop, OODA is to observe the very first thing you need to do when you're beginning

00:05:20.580 to make decisions or you're find yourself in a situation, maybe it's an unfamiliar or uncomfortable

00:05:25.520 situation is to actually observe what's happening. Uh, Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman talks a little bit

00:05:33.480 about our, uh, physiological response to threats and circumstances and situations. And in a lot of

00:05:40.540 ways, our bodies are designed to hone in on these things that will keep us safe and protected. And

00:05:46.620 yet we lose focus on everything else that's going on around us and not being able to have our head on

00:05:52.020 a swivel and observe everything that's happening poses a whole nother set of risks that you need to be

00:05:58.060 aware of. So when you are trying to decide and make decisions about your family dynamic or your

00:06:03.400 career aspirations, you really need to step out and be objective in, in looking around and seeing

00:06:10.300 what is happening around you. What is going on? What is happening? What is the objective? Who are

00:06:15.900 the people? What are their objectives? What is it they want to accomplish? What do you want to

00:06:19.660 accomplish? What is happening around you? The better that you get at observing objectively. And I say

00:06:26.080 objectively, not subjectively, it's very easy for us to be inside of a situation and get emotionally

00:06:32.840 wrapped up and tied up into this thing, and then make a decision based purely on emotions, which we

00:06:38.900 know is not always going to be in fact, more often than not, if we're doing it that way, it's not going

00:06:43.880 to be in our best interest. So be as objective as possible and observe what's happening, what you want

00:06:50.520 to accomplish, how you want to get this thing done, what direction you're trying to move towards,

00:06:54.980 and you're going to have a more successful time moving through this process. So again, Oh,

00:06:59.020 the first O is observe next to orient. All right. Now you come back to reality, right? You've,

00:07:05.340 you've taken yourself out of the situation. You've given yourself a 30,000 foot view.

00:07:09.940 You've observed everything that's going on around you. And now you're orienting yourself to the

00:07:15.640 situation. So inside of this circumstance that I found myself in, whether it's a dangerous encounter,

00:07:21.060 a natural disaster, uh, an uncomfortable conversation, uh, or maybe not an uncomfortable

00:07:26.440 conversation or a client appointment or whatever, whatever it is that you're trying to do. Now you

00:07:34.140 come back into reality out of consciousness and you put yourself in the scenario. Okay. Now you're

00:07:42.560 starting to orient in order for these things to happen and these little pieces to move and everything

00:07:47.060 to be in the right place. What do I need to have in place? What assets do I need? What resources do I

00:07:54.740 need? Uh, what, what do I have at my disposal? What potential threats are, are, are, are visible

00:08:02.980 and present? And what's the priority of dealing with those threats? If you're dealing with, for example,

00:08:08.760 a new project at work, you know, that you have an objective, your boss has come down. He's given you

00:08:14.460 an objective in the task, you know, what you need to accomplish. Now in the second stage, it's

00:08:20.740 orienting. Okay. In order to accomplish this new task, I'm going to need to enlist, uh, these

00:08:27.080 individuals. I'm going to need these resources. I'm going to need this research and documentation.

00:08:33.420 Uh, the threats that are out there is I have competitors, uh, who, who are there. We we've already

00:08:38.600 poured a lot of money into this. I've got this timeframe that I need to meet. And I don't think that

00:08:43.200 that timeframe is going to work. So now you're just starting to move the pieces of the puzzle.

00:08:47.880 You're looking at this as a chessboard and, and, and, and really putting the objective there and

00:08:53.460 then moving all the pieces or finding out where those pieces go so that you can successfully, uh,

00:08:59.740 accomplish the task at hand. Now, when you're looking at a chessboard and we'll use this analogy

00:09:04.640 as we continue to go on with this thing, the third component of this is to decide. So now you've

00:09:10.340 observed, you've looked around and you figured everything out to the best of your abilities.

00:09:15.620 You've oriented yourself to the situation. You know, which way you're going, you know,

00:09:21.180 from where you're coming, you know, what threats are potentially, uh, going to be present and how

00:09:26.340 you might deal with those. Now you're faced with multiple options, right? You're always faced with

00:09:31.840 multiple options. When you're having a difficult conversation, do I take this route? Do I take this

00:09:36.000 route? Do I appeal to this person, uh, this way? And this other person, this way, you always have

00:09:41.360 multiple paths to choose from. And I think this is where a lot of guys get hung up is they do this

00:09:47.500 loop as the OO loop, right? So it's like constant observation and orientation, then back to observation

00:09:54.600 and orientation, observation, orientation, and they never get onto this third component,

00:09:59.280 which is to decide very simply to decide. And this is an act and it's a habit and it's a skillset.

00:10:07.460 It's something that you can improve and something that you can get better at. And the better that

00:10:12.120 you are at deciding based on the facts that you have and the information you have at hand, the better

00:10:17.100 you are going to be, the more action you're going to take, the further you're going to advance.

00:10:22.340 Now you're not always going to get it right. And you're not always going to have all the information.

00:10:26.380 Even if you go through the OODA loop, which is again, first step, observe second step, orient.

00:10:32.200 Even if you go through that just right, you're not going to have all the facts at hand. And you need

00:10:36.920 to learn to be okay with that. You need to learn because we're not talking about brain surgery here.

00:10:41.940 We're not talking about solving all of humanity's largest crises here in the next two or three days

00:10:49.440 or week or however long it's going to take you to decide. We're talking about a simple strategy.

00:10:54.600 strategy. And by the way, guys, you aren't bound or tied into the strategy. We're going to get to

00:10:59.460 that in a minute. You aren't bound to the strategy that you choose. Let's say that you do decide

00:11:04.020 something, a course of action, course a, we're going to go down this path. Well, a lot of guys

00:11:09.720 won't choose because they're worried that if course a is the wrong route, that they're perpetually stuck

00:11:14.580 on course a, that's not true at all. It's not true at all. You can back, you can come back,

00:11:20.140 you can backtrack a little bit. You can step off that path onto a different path, but frankly,

00:11:24.460 you're not going to know which path is going to be best for you entirely until you start walking

00:11:29.520 that path until you start moving. And that's the fourth component of this. The fourth component is

00:11:35.060 to act is to be bold is to exhibit some, some level of, of courage and decisiveness and take action.

00:11:44.080 Simple. This is not complicated stuff. I mean, I've been talking for what, 10 minutes now, granted,

00:11:51.860 I know this is a lot easier said than done. It's always easier to talk than it is to actually do,

00:11:56.920 but I'd like you to consider in what situations have you struggled to make decisions? Is it having

00:12:03.480 a conversation with your wife? Is it deciding what career you want to pursue? Uh, is it deciding where

00:12:09.480 you want to live or if, and when you want to ask a woman for her hand in marriage, or if, and when you 0.53

00:12:15.520 want to ask for a promotion or where you want to take this project or your list of priorities within

00:12:21.320 business, there's these thousands and thousands and thousands of decisions and choices that we need

00:12:27.460 to make on a daily basis. And your ability to use this OODA loop or some other framework that works

00:12:33.680 for you is going to spell the difference between success and failure between weakness and

00:12:39.200 strength, between those men who get things done. And those who simply talk about getting things

00:12:45.300 done. Don't get stuck. Don't do this paralysis by analysis, use the OODA loop, figure it out,

00:12:53.840 observe what's happening around you, observe what you want to accomplish. Try to be as objective as

00:12:59.260 possible. Don't allow yourself to, or your ego to get in the way or your emotions to cloud your

00:13:04.860 judgment, orient yourself to the situation and what you want to accomplish, decide the course of

00:13:11.360 action. And then lastly, act on it. You can act when you've done this, you can act with, with

00:13:17.360 confidence and boldness because you know, you've done the processes and the steps to get you to that

00:13:23.440 level of action. Now I'm going to throw a bonus at you here. There's one other bonus letter, I guess

00:13:29.260 you'd say is to evaluate, evaluate, right? The decisions that you make are typically not life

00:13:37.160 and death situations. They're not the end all save all. If you make this decision, it doesn't mean

00:13:41.600 that you can't change down the road, but you have to evaluate whether or not your course of action

00:13:47.460 actually worked. So you've observed, you've oriented, you've decided now you've acted. Now through that

00:13:54.680 consistent action, you ask yourself, did the action I take move me in the direction I wanted to go?

00:14:01.440 Did it work? Because we all know and have heard that the definition of insanity is doing the same

00:14:07.420 thing over and over again and expecting a different result. If your actions are producing a result and

00:14:13.140 that's what you want, keep doing it. If it's not what you want, then you have to figure out at some

00:14:18.300 path at some point that this isn't producing the desired effect. So you look at it, you evaluate

00:14:26.060 it. It's working. It's not working. If it's not working, go back to the OODA loop process, observe,

00:14:33.100 orient, decide, act, evaluate, and evaluate might be observe as well because you are observing what's

00:14:40.520 happening, the result that you're producing. And that's why it's called a loop. It's not a linear

00:14:45.680 process. It's a loop and it's constantly going every day, all the time. Observe, orient, decide,

00:14:53.160 act, observe, orient, decide, act. And through that process, you will push yourself and drive

00:14:58.300 yourself to doing more, to taking more action and accomplishing more in your life. So there you go,

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How to Make Better Decisions Using the OODA Loop ｜ FRIDAY FIELD NOTES

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