Patterns of Conflict
| The works of |
| Works of John Boyd |
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OODA WIKI Edition
Quantico Transcription
When you begin to examine it—and that’s what this note’s directed to here—you can also say, surprise and shock also can be represented as an overload beyond one’s immediate ability to respond or adapt. In other words, they can't respond or adapt because of that sense of surprise, or shock, or both.
So, what you really want to do is put them in an overload condition, so they can't respond. So just take out surprise and shock on the next chart, and substitute overload.