We had a coaches meeting with all of the coaches at the high school today where we were all trained in on CPR. I had been trained in back in high school, and it turns out that a few things have changed in the forty years since I last took the class! (anyone remember learning to do a precordial thump?)
What struck me during the training is that the first thing you do in a crisis is to assess the situation. For one thing, you want to determine if the environment is safe. For instance, it doesn't do you or the victim any good for you to jump in and start CPR if there are, say, live electrical wires in the area. You get the idea.
It made me think of how often we skip that step in other parts of our lives. We jump right in and try to solve a problem, or interject in a conversation with our solution before we have a good grasp of the situation.
I imagine we can all think of a time we leapt before we looked. Sometimes, after looking, we may realize we don't really need to leap at all.
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