Decision-Making in Chaos?
Sirens.
Gunfire.
Heart rate 180 beats per minute.
3-seconds.
That’s all the space between thinking and reacting: between control and chaos.
In that tiny gap, your brain screams for certainty.
But certainty doesn’t live here.
Instinct does.
The paradox:
When time disappears, you don’t rise to the level of your goals;
you fall to the level of your training.
It doesn’t matter if you can handle the pressure if you’re not rehearsing when there is none. Without training you’ll be ok until you’re not.
In field command, there’s a 3-second rule. If you can’t make the call in three seconds, you’ve already lost the initiative.
Hesitation has a body count.
But the secret isn’t speed.
It’s clarity.
The calm repetition that trains your nervous system to trust pattern over panic, principle over noise.
The truth:
You’ll never have perfect info.
You’ll have breath, training, and values.
That’s your compass when time collapses.
3-seconds.
Breathe.
Decide.
Move.
Indecision is still a decision…it just favors the threat.