Orientation serves as your cognitive operating system

Mark McGrath:

But in the real world, the right move is worthless if your internal model of the world is wrong.

III. Decisions are hypotheses. Actions are tests.

You never have the full picture. You never will. Every decision is a working theory. Every action is an experiment in real-world complexity.

And here’s the key: you don’t stop and make a decision, then pause again to evaluate it. That’s how you lose. The enemy is trying to make you freeze. Don’t do their job for them. Keep moving. Keep testing. Keep adjusting.

Strategy is not about certainty. It’s about continuous experimentation under fire.

IV. Feedback loops rewire orientation. This is reorientation.

Friction, failure, and surprise don’t loop you back, they change you. All feedback flows directly into Orientation. That’s how you evolve judgment.

If you’re not reorienting, you’re not orienting.

This is not repetition, it’s mutation. Signals, results, and mismatches hit the orientation system directly. Your perception reshapes. Your actions shift. Your predictions improve. And those changes alter the next round of feedback in return. It’s a feedback flow, not a cycle.


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