aggression as a playstyle/strategy in sports and games basically means to play in a way that gives the opponent less time to react this is unintuitively the core secret to tempo/flow/ooda
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for racket sports it can be returning the ball right off the bounce for a trading card game like magic or hearthstone it’s filling the deck with cheap fast cards with starcraft, it’s zerg swarming
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this is unintuitive because aggression usually feels “stronger” but in practice is actually “weaker but FASTER” “punching through a defense” relies on speed not strength
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it is also why ooda as a strategy mostly does not work the real time nature of the required aggression means there’s isn’t time to sit back and think like a chess player it’s not an actual strategy. it’s a collection of habits.
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the right habits and “way of being” have to have already been ingrained prior to the confrontation ironically, this makes ooda the least flexible, most simplistic, and luck dependent strategy
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it succeeds primarily in strong bounded domains like fighter jets, tennis, ping pong, dota, etc… because the rules don’t change, all strategic nuance can be stripped from the game if u boil it down to a battle of pace
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e.g. with the modern high spin/speed table tennis game, each champion is predictably a prime-of-life mid twenties from a training farm who beats down the opponent with faster reaction and speed
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instead of a “strategic” game it becomes “overcome everything with large amounts of topspin”
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it is ineffective as a general strategy towards life because life is not a bounded domain with a statically sized table, ball, and set of rules. there’s no way to put in the reps to ingrain the no-think-only-flow habits required for aggression
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aggression in this sense of “nonstop pace” is also intrinsically linked with flow. there is no flow unless reality is engaged in at a pace that gives the thinking mind no time to react
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the “aggressive jock” is better at sex than the “overthinking nerd” because just like sports, breaks in flow and intrusion of thought stand out jarringly
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“sexy” masculine domains are almost always associated with the ability to maintain unbroken flow. pilots, doctors, pianists, athletes. or the ability to act with extreme speed. firefighter, soldier, etc
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even for a nonsexy domain like coding, when dramatized in a sexy way on screen it’s always some sort of coding marathon chugging red bulls
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ooda then is almost spiritual as a strategy. it’s a way of thinking that strives to reduce or eliminate the thinking.
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just like most spirituality is fake, most applications of ooda are fake or hamfisted because the “thinking to not think” becomes fetishized as excessive constant thinking e.g. the nerd who heuristically applies aggression via “be an asshole redpill neg blah blah”
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