This is the Jocco Underground Podcast, number 39 sitting here with echo Charlie, as they say.

So getting inundated with a lot of information these days all the time and it made me think about

the fact that one of the things, the lessons that I learned in the military was that the first report

was always wrong. And this, we're going to expand on that. First report is always wrong, meaning

you get a report from the field or you get it, you're in the field and you get a report from one of

your troops and you've got to, you've got to listen to what they say clearly. But you also need to

recognize that what they're saying to you is probably going to be wrong. Why? Why is that? Well,

there's a bunch of reasons. Number one, the perspective that they're giving you is only their

perspective. So whatever they're involved in, whatever this report that they're yelling about

or screaming about or giving you emotionally, it's just their perspective. They can only see

something from their perspective at that time. What are the chances that when you take a look

at a problem, at a situation from one angle that you see the whole thing? What are the chances of that?

Very low. Very low. So they're not wrong, but they're only seeing a small part of whatever is

happening. Second, I already mentioned the word emotional, they're emotional about what's ever

happening. They're scared, they're angry, they're upset, whatever. So those are, those are impacting

the report that they're giving you. Also, there's a decent chance that when you mentioned,

when you mentioned perspective, you also have to think about their proximity to the problem,

which means they're too close to it, which is also a distorted perspective because when you're

standing so close to something, you don't see it. All. So that, what that leads you to learn

in the military is that when somebody tells you something, I shouldn't say that their first report

is always wrong because that's too strong. The first report is not all the information you're

going to need. So what you learn to do is you learn to take a step back, you learn to detach,

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