an obstinate persistence in a given task despite strong contrary evidence obstinate persistence in a given task that’s when you are this is uh i don’t know if you guys have anything like this dave but when you’re parachuting what one of the ways that people die when parachuting is they have a problem with their main parachute and they just keep trying to fix that problem and they get target fixation and they just they just and they never go to the reserve they never go to the reserve yeah can that happen in the cockpit yeah absolutely and maybe a slightly different different version of that is you can have a system that is a you know it’s a critical system that you need but it wouldn’t be the difference between returning home safely and not but you’ll you’ll spend so much time trying to resolve the problem that system is causing that it can lead you to focusing on that so much that you stop paying attention to other things and will lead you to a mishap when even though it could be a real problem it should never lead you down the path of of crashing or losing the airplane and what you really need to do is ignores probably the wrong word but if you can’t solve this move move on to something else and get the airplane back safely and they’ll spit people will devote 100 of their attention to that all the way to the point that they crashed the airplane as a result of it when it would would not have caused a crash it’s kind of crazy and that human element of the fixation i think is the word you use the fixation on that you know i was just talking about this at the muster we are genetically programmed to to fixate yes because if you’re a caveman and you can’t concentrate on the tiger that’s you know prowling up on you and you’re distracted by other things then you’re gonna die right so we’re programmed to focus on what’s right in front of us that’s why people so often lose strategic vision and they can’t detach and they don’t see what else is happening on that’s that’s why you get flanked that’s why you keep trying to fix your parachute until you hit the dirt or why you concentrate on some instrument panel until you run out of fuel or you run into a mountain exactly what’s the term when someone hits a mountain with no like no brakes or whatever yeah we call it see fit controlled flight into terrain which means you’re fully in control of the aircraft as you do it as you hit that mountain because you are so fixated on something else you know it’s not like hey i’m tumbling out of the sky i’m trying to save this airplane i hit the ground it’s like hey i’m flying perfectly normal flying i might be i’m i’m fixated or focusing on something that’s a problem but i’m gonna fully control level flight into the ground or into the mountain that is totally avoidable had it not been for that fixation it’s as far as mishaps go it’s coming it’s not uncommon well the the first time i i remember hearing that was when kobe bryant’s helicopter crashed and i think that was because they couldn’t see right they they couldn’t see but there was nothing wrong with the helicopter at all they were just flying and he obviously i think they were a fog and so got disoriented and just flew just full speed no factor into the into the mountain yeah and like the worst versions of that is um they’re all terrible is i’m i’m going to dive like i’m in a 45 degree dive i’m diving down towards the target which is what you’re supposed to do you’re going to get into an altitude and you’re going to dive down towards the target to help uh refine where you’re going to drop the bomb and i’m going to focus on the display that makes sure that my targeting my reticle the the aiming point is exactly where i want it a little adjustment to keep i’ll keep adjusting that targeting point to be exact where i want it and i’ll go through my minimum altitudes and i will fly straight into the ground all the while just focusing on that targeting point and i’ll never try to pull up i’ll never try to recover i’ll ignore warnings that say your altitude is getting low and pilots will fly directly into the ground working on something else in a perfectly safe effective flying area yeah with no problems at all that is literally the exact same thing that happens a guy skydiving well it’s a little bit different because with a guy skydiving they’re trying to fix a problem usually i’m so i suppose there are some cases you know this is why again referring back to the muster i was talking about the the leadership loop and yeah the the main bullet at the bottom both for the ooda loop and the leadership loop is you can’t get stuck you can’t get stuck focused on one thing and when you do get focused on one thing there’s just there’s just there’s the rest of the world doesn’t stop right whenever you’re focused in one thing in life the rest of the world doesn’t stop the rest of the world is going to keep going if you don’t look around it’s going to be a problem
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