The Order Of Observation – Situation Awareness

Last update: 8th, Aug, 2023.

Problem

The problem with deducing in real-time is not only the huge amount of information that you need to process, but also the importance of the data you take.

You might want to read: Implementing Stacking For Observation

The Order

This is a list reduced in the importance of what information you should look for first in a real-time situation. Feel free to comment down your opinion.

1. Overview

This is just fundamental.

If you follow my work, I always recommend an overview of everything. Not only in deduction, but also in exams, study courses, etc.

Once again, stacking will help you work out information in the background without exerting a lot of mental work into it.

You might want to read: How to stack Layers to go deeper in deduction.

2. Get away options

The thing that I value is your safety and your comfort or presence of mind.

Safety is for obvious reason, “you live to fight another day”. You don’t want to suddenly be caught in a fight, a shooting, a fire. It might be rare for you, but just once and you’re gone.

Find exits, emergency exist, stairs, bathrooms. It should be easy and quick, no need to panic here.

Example: I am an introvert, and it takes a lot of mental work to talk to others, often leave me “blank”. One of the first thing I find at every revenue is the bathroom, so I can just “take a poop” and reset my head.

3. Dangers

This is another quick glance, you know where to escape, now see where the danger at and stay away from it.

Danger is loosely used here. Besides from what it actually mean, I also use it as someone you don’t want to talk to, some activity people do but you don’t, traffic jams ,etc. Any thing that is not optimal.

4. Opportunities

Everything mentioned earlier probably take you 1 second to do, but it’s essential in warming up and protect you from mindlessness.

Opportunities here mean everything you want to do. You want to talk to someone and try to deduce them, you want to try a game at the fair and try to deduce its safety, etc.