Week 20: Moxie Cake Becomes Ooda Cake
You are in the river aiming for something on the far side but that feisty current has interrupted you, nearly tipped you as you went for it. Ooda!
Hmm. Fight with a current? Better to float down stream, take the path of least resistance. Keep your bird eye in the sky. To float with the current is still moving, better than clinging to the shore, or losing your reserves in a hasty spillover.
Patience, curiosity & use your OODA. Observe, Orient, Decide, Act.*
Float with that Ooda Cake! Use the rudder if you have one and if not, a paddle or a stick is a steering and stabilizing device, not just for forward propulsion.
Keep it moving and in the water! Play with that current and the path of least resistance can be smart & fun.
The Ooda Cake ride might just show you an unexpected eddy or channel where the mainstream is interrupted with delightful surprises along the way. Maybe you’ll find that aimed for place on the far side or maybe a better point you couldn’t have imagined before your ride on the Ooda Cake.
How did you handle the last time some feisty current interrupted your aimed for destination?
What if you’d been traveling on an Ooda Cake?
What do you think about taking the path of least resistance?
* I learned about OODA from a surprising video of the musician Jeff Baxter (Steely Dan & Doobie Brothers). He learned it from John Boyd its originator.
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