That is a very interesting observation. I had not throught of that before!

Thanks for the warm welcome. I think I am going to like it here!

Great intro, thank you for your insights.

Hey SAFisher, WELCOME!

Mike

Welcome SAFisher

Pull up a rock and join the campfire there is always room for one more.
When you mentioned Thomas Magnum, I shared the snippet with my wife and she drooled over Thomas. (she used to live in Hawaii during the show)

Mike D

Welcome, SAFisher:

You raise a good point. I like to call it "don't just do something, stand there!"

In dealing with emergencies on a professional basis, we call it a "scene size-up." It is always a good idea to take a moment or two to ask yourself three fundamental questions: What is actually happening, or has happened, here, overall? What resources, information, etc. do I have on hand, and what else will I need? What is my plan or objective?

There on endless variations on this basic theme, but they all involve the idea of thinking before acting. Along with that is the idea of getting one's emotions under control. Crisis management is a learnable skill. Practice, pre-planning, and experience help, but the cognitive component is rather durable and often surprisingly transferable across disciplines.

Jeff

As I've said many times at work, "A few minutes of thinking can save you hours worth of working.". One of the best things you can do in any problematic situation is think for a few minutes and formulate a solid game plan for what you need to do.

Oh, and from another relatively new guy, welcome.

I refer to those as the "MacGyver Moments", you know the scene just before the commercial break where they have the shot on him pondering what to do next. He'll be running full tilt bozo through the woods from the bad guys, then he stops, looks around, and when the show comes back from the commercials he starts gathering rubble and building a man trap or flash bang or something using just a flint rock, some lint from his pocket, and a few iron scrapings from an old pipe.