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A Decision/Action Model for Soccer – Pt. 13 
The physiology of decisions, actions, learning and memory 
Deep Stories, enacting a spiral curriculum 
“This is how the remembering self works: it composes stories and keeps them for 
future reference.” [17] 
Daniel Kahneman 
“ Language is a screen through which we express and perceive meaning… English 
is an adjectival language, and for this reason, a difficult language in which to 
portray action happening. This is, in part, why it becomes important to tell the 
story of action, in the story form, permitting the unfolding experience of action.” [24] 
Marianne Paget
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Decision-making is embedded in a story 
You can’t see a decision, only the story that’s left behind 
“Recall that mental models are constructs that represent our understanding of 
classes of situations that are more similar than not. Deep stories, by contrast, 
are enactments that create sui generis mental models applying only to one 
significant new situation. Simple enactments can unfold on the basis of existing 
mental models. Deep stories, however, would be impossible without narrative 
rationality. They require us to continuously improvise the background story 
while acting. This means constructing the mental model as the enactment 
unfolds (learning in the most general sense.) [27] 
“The significance and uniqueness of an enactment depend on your role in it. A 
priest may conduct hundreds of weddings, and to him, wedding might be a 
routine enactment… From the point of view of the bride and groom, the 
wedding may be a deep story…” [27] 
“A story is about significant events and memorable moments… and the ending 
often defines its character.” [17]
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“We will adopt the Double Freytag triangle as our canonical 
example of the structure of a deep story.” [27] 
“The Double Freytag triangle represents a tractable level of complexity. It is 
neither as simple as the basic Freytag triangle, nor as arbitrarily complex as 
models of individual deep stories can get (which need only begin and end with a 
liminal passage.” [27]
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Double Freytag – Liminal Passages 
The bookends to change 
“The bookend liminal passages… are the most important elements of the Double Freytag 
Triangle… Between the initial and final liminal passages, doctrines and self-archetypes 
evolve.” [27] 
“During liminal passages, we are caught in the situational emptiness between rich 
narrative contexts, so the only thing we can do is indulge in existential musing. The 
musing can be either pleasurable or painful, and you can engage in it in either self-aware 
or self-indulgent ways.” [27] 
Liminal passages are the safe, comfortable stillness of personal narratives. The area 
where being in a groove can become stuck in a rut. While life goes on around us nothing 
new engages us. Routines dominate and 
normalcy dictates our lives. 
The difference between the liminal 
passages are what’s between them, how 
it’s used and retained. These become 
the stories and heuristics kept for 
future reference.
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Double Freytag – Opening Liminal Passage 
Giving way to suspicion, getting out of the rut 
“When this orderly (and pleasant) state is reached the concept becomes a coherent 
pattern of ideas and interactions that can be used to describe some aspect of observed 
reality. As a consequence, there is little or no further appeal to alternative ideas and 
interactions in an effort to either expand, complete, or modify the concept . Instead, the 
effort turned inward towards fine tuning the ideas and interactions in order to improve 
generality and produce a more precise match of the conceptual pattern with reality. 
Toward this end, the concept—and its internal workings—is tested and against observed 
phenomena over and over again in many different and subtle ways. [7] 
Such a repeated and inward-oriented effort to explain increasingly more subtle aspects 
of reality suggests the disturbing idea that 
perhaps, at some point, ambiguities, 
uncertainties, anomalies, or apparent 
inconsistencies may emerge to stifle a more 
general and precise match-up of concept 
with observed reality.” [7] 
Suspicion, an emotional gut feeling initiates 
the decision to begin searching the 
environment for ‘something else, something 
new.’ Exploration begins when we sense 
that our goals will be soon be violated.
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Double Freytag – Exploration 
Climbing a hill in search of something 
“We’ve identified learning, in the most general sense, as the process of constructing a 
mental model from scratch. This process is open-ended and has no goals beyond 
hardwired biological ones. It is unsupervised, uncertain, unbounded, unstructured and 
mostly unrewarding.” [27] 
“Given these characteristics, it should not be surprising that it is a very disorienting and 
stressful phase in a deep story… This is the ‘blooming buzzing confusion’ that William 
James speculated.” [27] 
“All such natural exploration behaviors are varieties of random behaviors… The inherent 
open-ended randomness of all exploratory behaviors leads to randomness in what is 
discovered.” [27] 
Exploration is a response to a feeling of 
unease or curiosity, the ‘blooming 
buzzing confusion’ has our attention. 
It’s leads to a myriad of decisions and 
actions about what to search for and 
where to look. But this constant 
searching can’t go on for long. 
Exploration needs a stopping rule.
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Double Freytag – The Cheap Trick 
Finding the leverage point – something to work with 
“The moment occurs when you recognize an exploitable pattern in the raw material you 
have collected in your exploration. The immediate consequence of this recognition is 
drawing of a relevance boundary. Things that conform to the pattern are deemed 
relevant and included in the mental model. Things that don’t conform are excluded. 
The unexplained chaos in your head separates into exploitable meaning and ignorable 
noise… This information is necessarily local in space and time… There is no known 
systemic method for triggering a cheap trick.” [27] 
“Every such insight is flawed, since it is based on excluding some part of reality as 
noise. This will eventually catch up with you, so the insight merely buys you a certain 
amount of time.” [27] The danger, “For every complex problem there is an answer that 
is clear, simple, and wrong.” H.L. Mencken 
The cheap trick is the ‘ah-ha’ or ‘oh sh_t’ 
moment when the data becomes 
information, you found the difference 
that makes a difference, an idea is born. 
But “Timing is critical.” [27] If you stop 
exploration too early or too late “you 
will fall victim to either expediency or 
perfectionism… the narrative-rational 
decision-maker looks for steals and 
bargains.” [27] Close enough will do.
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Double Freytag – Sense-making 
At last there’s something that makes sense 
“A cheap trick is not just an exploitable insight, it is an organizing insight. It serves as a 
speck of dust… It allows you to make sense of what you’ve learned.” [27] 
“This is why ‘most compelling (comprehensive) and elegant (compact) story’ is the guiding 
heuristic in narrative-rational decision-making. This compression and compaction creates a 
mental model where the pieces fit together in a meaningful way…” [27] It’s a starting point, 
“a cleavage term.” [25] 
“Sensemaking involves the ongoing retrospective development of plausible images that 
rationalize what people are doing. Viewed as a significant process of organizing, sense-making 
unfolds as a sequence in which people concerned with identity in the social context 
of other actors engage ongoing 
circumstances from which they extract 
cues and make plausible sense 
retrospectively, while enacting more or 
less order into those ongoing 
circumstances.” [33, 34] 
“Elegant and compelling, however, do not 
add up to real… Your mental model has 
not yet weathered an encounter with new 
realities” [27]
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Double Freytag – The Valley 
“Charging ahead in the dark.” [27] 
“In the valley, you encounter diminishing returns from the organizing capacity of the 
cheap trick. As the leverage provided by the cheap trick is exhausted, the enactment 
requires increasing amounts of raw energy. You are sustained only by the belief that 
you are cheating nature on a grander scale.” [27] 
“The characteristic feature of the valley is decisive action without either reward or 
validation.” [27] 
“The valley is the longest and most difficult phase of a deep story, but curiously, it is 
hard to say anything about it… In movies about underdogs winning sporting contests, 
this is the part that screenwriters skip over lightly, with the help of a montage set to 
inspirational music.” [27] 
The plan is coming together but has 
yet to be tested against the world. 
Optimism and ignorance keep the 
project going. The past is based on 
the cheap trick and the future on timing 
and opportunity. All this is played out 
against a running clock, declining energy 
and increased waste.
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Double Freytag – The Heavy Lift 
“We exit the valley with a massive effort of will: the heavy lift” [27] 
“If you’ve ever pulled an all-nighter to finish a major project… despite doubts, to launch 
the product of your efforts into the wider world, you’ve experienced the heavy lift.” [27] 
“A heavy lift is always required in a deep story… the do or die of the effort is what 
makes it a deadline. In any consequential situation, the decision to start a heavy lift is 
deliberate, not forced.” [27] 
“Like all mental models, the mental model created by the deep story is unstable. It 
starts to disintegrate in the absence of a continuous stream of reinforcement through 
situational feedback.” [27] 
The model is finally exposed to the 
environment. Friction modifies it from 
its pure, theoretical tenets to a 
constrained reality. Optimism and 
ignorance are tempered by experience 
and feedback. The opponents 
opposition and teammates buy in play 
a large role in the finished product. 
Finally, as you pay more attention to 
what you’re doing serial processing 
increases the demand for energy. [12,23]
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Double Freytag – The Separation Event 
“The externalized mental model is an organic entity…” [27] 
“The separation event is the moment when a significant proportion of the newly created 
mental model, along with its momentum, is externalized into the environment, as your 
act of creative destruction.” [7,27] 
“It is no longer entirely within your control… This moment is commonly referred to as 
the moment of truth, since it typically either validates or invalidates the assumptions 
underlying… the valley and heavy lift.” [27] 
“Besides being a major and irreversible encounter with reality, the separation event 
involves a parting of ways… Through externalization, a part of the mental model… 
becomes codified and embedded into a reality upon which others will… imbue with their 
own meanings. Beyond the separation 
event, we can only choose to participate 
in the construction of shared mental 
models.” [27] 
The action is now a part others 
experience and new information. Your 
private thoughts become part of the 
public domain. Your control over 
your own creation rapidly fades
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Double Freytag – The Retrospective 
The road from participation to reification 
“In this phase, the decision-maker’s doctrine is… revised, to reflect the morals of the 
deep story just experienced. The deep story itself, as a memory, is cast into its final 
stable form, in a way that validates the revised doctrine.” [27] 
“Since we rewrite history to support this expedient doctrine, retrospectives can lead to 
delusions as easily as… to wisdom.” [27] 
“The retrospective is not the same as a… debrief or assessment that might follow the 
accomplishment of (an)… objective. It is the psychological consequence of either 
success or failure…” [27] 
At last the action has been vetted 
against the environment. It’s now 
ready to become a new memory, one 
that carries what Rinus Michels calls 
“emotional ballast”. It sinks into 
history and becomes one more stored 
mental model that you have to draw 
from for future efforts. Participation 
passes into reification.
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Double Freytag – Closing Liminal Passage 
“As the retrospective tapers off, once again we enter a liminal passage” [27] 
“With the benefit of hindsight, the stable memory of the deep story, as well as a 
revised doctrine and self-archetype take shape during the retrospective. Whether 
your reconstructed memories are delusions or critical histories depends on your 
capacity for honest introspection.” [27] 
 “Talk is intrinsically problematic because the reconstruction of… activity in retrospect… 
begins with the result that is now known, and it is shaped by that knowing.” [24] 
The difference between the opening and closing liminal passages of the deep story 
represent a “sui generis mental model.” [27] The change in elevation between the 
liminal passages (double arrow) is due largely to the value of the deep story. Stress and 
tension play a role in the value. Not enough, it’s boring. Too much, it’s overwhelming. 
Managing this part of player 
education is a coaching art. It 
requires good fingerspitzengefühl 
i.e. expertise in leadership and 
management.
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Freytag Staircase, accumulating experience 
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end” Dan Wilson, Closing Time 
“Freytag Staircase: A view [of] a life narrative as a string of deep stories, with each 
successive liminal passage being, on average, a little higher than the previous one. The 
difference between the initial and final liminal passages in a deep story embedded 
within the staircase can be interpreted equally well as doctrinal growth, or decay.” 
[http://www.tempobook.com/glossary/#freytag-staircase]
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Freytag Staircase, accumulating experience 
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end” Dan Wilson, Closing Time 
Some deep stories contribute to a broadening of experience (learning) while others 
invalidate previous convictions and doctrines (unlearning). The later is usually disturbing 
because it creates a conceptual hole where a model once was. That loss may not be 
filled until a new deep story has been enacted. 
The Freytag staircase handles the many personal identities that contribute to experience 
and memory. Calculative developmental, i.e. closed system models, ignore these or treat 
them as little more than inconveniences. The straight line to an optimized goal reflects 
the path that teaching curriculums imagine the student will take. The messy path and 
uncertain end of the Freytag staircase reflects life as it actually unfolds. Friction, chance 
and luck produce anomalies in both the process and product of growth and 
development.
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The older you get, the fewer Deep Stories you write 
Fatigue sets in and doctrine becomes dogma 
“In open worlds, understanding is a live, ongoing battle… this ongoing understanding of 
the world… weakens over time for any decision-maker with finite capabilities. As we 
age, we become more doctrinaire and less capable of open-world learning. Narrative-rational 
decision-makers necessarily age over time.” [27] 
The older we get the more we come to rely on routines. We can begin to live our lives 
in a liminal passage rut. Anomalies outside of the norm are missed or dismissed. The 
energy to explore the “blooming buzzing confusion” isn’t available or we rationalize the 
need away through some previous bias. We’ve ‘seen it all’ and become prisoners of 
either System 1, peer pressure - the moral/social system, lethergy or apathy. 
The construction of Deep Stories requires hard work from System 2. If it’s not engaged, 
we may stay stuck in a liminal passage. When that happens growth, learning and 
development are stifled, even stopped. Even in a short run this can have disastrous 
consequences. [17]
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How long does it take to live a Deep Story? 
Wag Dodge and twelve minutes [22,28,32,33] 
“The Freytag staircase helps us to think about cradle-to-grave life narratives.” [27] But for the 
practical purposes of learning we need shorter time-scales. The 1949 Mann Gulch Fire provides a 
lesson in how rapidly deep stories can be enacted. [22,28,32,33] 
At 5:45 Dodge turns the crew around and they start back up the gulch. He is still in his opening 
liminal passage. We have a problem and routine procedure is the best option at this time. 
As he moves back up the gulch he becomes suspicious, the fire is gaining and the current 
procedure might not get the desired result, safety for himself and his crew. As he walks he begins 
to explore other conceptual and environmental options. 
At 5:53 Dodge departs from procedure, orders the crew to drop their packs, tools and to pick up 
the pace. Suspicion begins to overwhelm the opening liminal passage. Exploration takes on 
greater urgency, for some it becomes desperation and panic. A false cheap trick is enacted. 
At 5:55 Dodge finds another cheap trick, the fire triangle and makes sense of the situation, 
remove a corner. It’s a gamble but the environment is right. He sets the escape fire, a novel 
semi-autonomous action. He has less then sixty seconds in the valley before the heavy lift when 
he enters the ‘black,’ and the fire reaches his position. 
AT 5:57 the fire has passed Dodge but caught thirteen members of his crew, the separation 
event. Dodge never fully gets through the retrospective. The Forest Service however, quickly 
realizes the product of Dodge’s deep story at the global level. They institutionalize “escape 
fires/create the black” as a matter of procedure. 
Deep stories help to explain how new archetypes are created but do little to shed light on how, 
when or where decisions have been rendered. Furthermore, they require time-scales long enough 
to enact the story, something incompatible with adversarial decision-making i.e. 1v1. These 
aspects are covered by the shorter time-scales of OODA, LIDA cycles and loops.
OODA’s and LIDA’s, the circulatory system in Deep Stories 
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Blood, OODA’s, LIDA’s – connective tissues for feed forward and feedback 
The OODA and LIDA models are based on models of human cognition. The quotes concern the 
LIDA model and the comparisons are mine. Concerning input, time-scales and output I consider 
the OODA and LIDA models to be identical due to the genetic constraints of both. 
“We propose that human cognition consists of cascading cycles of recurring brain events. Each 
cognitive cycle senses the current situation, interprets it with reference to ongoing goals, and then 
selects an internal or external action in response… One cognitive cycle would therefore take 260– 
390 ms.” [2,12,23] 
“Conscious events occur as a sequence of discrete, coherent episodes separated by quite short 
periods of no conscious content.” “In the LIDA model, single conscious episodes are discrete but… 
not necessarily distinct – a current conscious ‘moment’ can contain percepts from a previous 
moment.” [2,12,23] 
The carry over of percepts allows two or more cycles to combine into a coherent idea over longer 
times; continuity is maintained. [2,12,23] This allows more robust conceptual models to be built by 
combining cycles and loops together. 
This model does have its upper temporal and information carrying limits. Entropy incurred in the 
processing of these cycles and loops, new information and feedback continually degrades/alters 
the concept as its being constructed. Mismatches with reality grow. When a loop becomes fatigued 
or outdated new cycles/loops can join during the “quite short periods of no conscious content.” 
Like breaking into an on-going conversation the model is updated, repaired or replaced on the fly.
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OODA’s/LIDA’s are the control systems which never rest 
The Deep Story is in command 
Every phase of a deep story runs on a longer time-scale than OODA’s/LIDA’s. “Against 
such a background, actions and decisions become critically important. Actions must be 
taken over and over again and in many different ways. Decisions must be rendered to 
monitor and determine the precise nature of the actions needed that will be compatible 
with the goal.” [7] OODA’s/LIDA’s work as the lookouts for the lazy System 2 keeping it 
updated as needed. Their shorter time-scale allows them greater sensitivity to changes. It 
also allows these short-term “working memories” to be easily disposed of keeping valuable 
computational space available for real problems. 
Deep stories face two major challenges, changing goals and entropy. For the former the 
goals of survive, survive on our own terms, thrive and grow are constrained and influenced 
by changing environments, internal and external. A threat one moment/cycle can become 
an opportunity the next. This can reverse the course of an action in milliseconds. Entropy 
means that each phase of a deep story faces decay without introducing new energy in the 
form of work, i.e. new information. Even in quiet times updating needs to be done to 
match a changing environment. 
Simply doing more of the same thing, or doing it better works for awhile. In the short run 
the desireable steady state maybe maintained. This is often the view within an organization 
or an internally focused system, don’t fix what ain’t broke. These systems exist in a bubble 
and are resistant to change.
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Working with time scales 
OODA’s-fast and short-lived; Deep Stories-slow and long lasting 
OODA’s are sensitive to anything that “engages the spotlight of attention.” [31] A short list 
includes; novelty, relevancy (to the norm or an anomaly), informativeness, problems, 
inconsistency (a break in the patterns necessary to maintain the current state), violated 
expectations and whatever can’t be dealt with by System 1 (we maybe in over our head). 
[31] Once something new has “engaged the spotlight of attention” System 2 can begin 
work. 
The difference in time scales between OODA’s and Deep Stories makes this marriage 
possible. The shorter time scales of the former allow for quick observation, faster 
reorientation, rapid decision-making and action at a small energy cost. These rapid cycles 
and loops are rendered at every stage of the deep story. It’s their short time-scale that 
makes them invisible when viewed against the longer time-scale of the story itself. We 
know that a computer is composed of atoms, but we can’t see them, just the hardware 
they make up. This is a short-coming in language. 
 “Action is seen, as it were, through the prism of ‘a decision…’ It is not a decision but a 
sequence of acts of deciding being described as though it were a single decision. Language 
is always reducing complexities.” [24]
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Deep Stories, conflict and OODA’s 
"War is… an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will.” 
Carl von Clausewitz 
“In making the final cut of ideas to include in the book, I decided to leave out adversarial 
decision-making, so I limited my explicit discussion of the OODA loop to a few passages. 
I was surprised to discover just how deeply the ideas in Tempo resonated with OODA. 
Though I was using a different vocabulary and exploring decision-making phenomena in 
non-adversarial settings, I seemed to have converged on many of the same core 
foundational themes, such as entropy, mental models, narratives and of course, tempo 
itself.” [26] 
We cannot understand decision-making in soccer without considering an active, hostile 
and capable opponent. The opponent will not willing submit to our will. He or she must be 
compelled to do our bidding. At the same time they will attempt to compel us to do theirs. 
Decision-making resembles a rapid (OODA time-scales) negative feedback loop between 
efforts to isolate the opponent and to interact with teammates physically, mentally or 
morally against the background of the on-going enactment. Both parties have a say in 
how the story unfolds and ends. 
Whoever can get the jump on their opponent and operate at a higher tempo (shorter 
time-scale) has an advantage. They will be able to shape the deep story as it’s being 
enacted. Players who think “what effect can I have on the opponent” will have a 
significant mental edge over those who think “what can I do.” The former starts with an 
external target, the later with internal capabilities and constraints.
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Thank you 
“I’ll live or die by my own ideas.” Johan Cruyff 
Presentation created January 2014 by Larry Paul, Peoria Arizona. 
All references are available as stated. 
All content is the responsibility of the author. 
For questions or to inquire how to arrange a consultation or workshop on this 
topic you can contact me at larry4v4@hotmail.com, subject line; decision/action 
model. 
For more information visit the bettersoccermorefun channel on YouTube, 
http://www.youtube.com/user/bettersoccermorefun?feature=watch or Street 
soccer, a guide to using small sided games at Udemy, 
https://www.udemy.com/street-soccer-a-guide-to-using-small-sidedgames/? 
sl=E0IZeFxSVw%3D%3D

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Deep Stories

  • 1. 1 A Decision/Action Model for Soccer – Pt. 13 The physiology of decisions, actions, learning and memory Deep Stories, enacting a spiral curriculum “This is how the remembering self works: it composes stories and keeps them for future reference.” [17] Daniel Kahneman “ Language is a screen through which we express and perceive meaning… English is an adjectival language, and for this reason, a difficult language in which to portray action happening. This is, in part, why it becomes important to tell the story of action, in the story form, permitting the unfolding experience of action.” [24] Marianne Paget
  • 2. 2 Decision-making is embedded in a story You can’t see a decision, only the story that’s left behind “Recall that mental models are constructs that represent our understanding of classes of situations that are more similar than not. Deep stories, by contrast, are enactments that create sui generis mental models applying only to one significant new situation. Simple enactments can unfold on the basis of existing mental models. Deep stories, however, would be impossible without narrative rationality. They require us to continuously improvise the background story while acting. This means constructing the mental model as the enactment unfolds (learning in the most general sense.) [27] “The significance and uniqueness of an enactment depend on your role in it. A priest may conduct hundreds of weddings, and to him, wedding might be a routine enactment… From the point of view of the bride and groom, the wedding may be a deep story…” [27] “A story is about significant events and memorable moments… and the ending often defines its character.” [17]
  • 3. 3 “We will adopt the Double Freytag triangle as our canonical example of the structure of a deep story.” [27] “The Double Freytag triangle represents a tractable level of complexity. It is neither as simple as the basic Freytag triangle, nor as arbitrarily complex as models of individual deep stories can get (which need only begin and end with a liminal passage.” [27]
  • 4. 4 Double Freytag – Liminal Passages The bookends to change “The bookend liminal passages… are the most important elements of the Double Freytag Triangle… Between the initial and final liminal passages, doctrines and self-archetypes evolve.” [27] “During liminal passages, we are caught in the situational emptiness between rich narrative contexts, so the only thing we can do is indulge in existential musing. The musing can be either pleasurable or painful, and you can engage in it in either self-aware or self-indulgent ways.” [27] Liminal passages are the safe, comfortable stillness of personal narratives. The area where being in a groove can become stuck in a rut. While life goes on around us nothing new engages us. Routines dominate and normalcy dictates our lives. The difference between the liminal passages are what’s between them, how it’s used and retained. These become the stories and heuristics kept for future reference.
  • 5. 5 Double Freytag – Opening Liminal Passage Giving way to suspicion, getting out of the rut “When this orderly (and pleasant) state is reached the concept becomes a coherent pattern of ideas and interactions that can be used to describe some aspect of observed reality. As a consequence, there is little or no further appeal to alternative ideas and interactions in an effort to either expand, complete, or modify the concept . Instead, the effort turned inward towards fine tuning the ideas and interactions in order to improve generality and produce a more precise match of the conceptual pattern with reality. Toward this end, the concept—and its internal workings—is tested and against observed phenomena over and over again in many different and subtle ways. [7] Such a repeated and inward-oriented effort to explain increasingly more subtle aspects of reality suggests the disturbing idea that perhaps, at some point, ambiguities, uncertainties, anomalies, or apparent inconsistencies may emerge to stifle a more general and precise match-up of concept with observed reality.” [7] Suspicion, an emotional gut feeling initiates the decision to begin searching the environment for ‘something else, something new.’ Exploration begins when we sense that our goals will be soon be violated.
  • 6. 6 Double Freytag – Exploration Climbing a hill in search of something “We’ve identified learning, in the most general sense, as the process of constructing a mental model from scratch. This process is open-ended and has no goals beyond hardwired biological ones. It is unsupervised, uncertain, unbounded, unstructured and mostly unrewarding.” [27] “Given these characteristics, it should not be surprising that it is a very disorienting and stressful phase in a deep story… This is the ‘blooming buzzing confusion’ that William James speculated.” [27] “All such natural exploration behaviors are varieties of random behaviors… The inherent open-ended randomness of all exploratory behaviors leads to randomness in what is discovered.” [27] Exploration is a response to a feeling of unease or curiosity, the ‘blooming buzzing confusion’ has our attention. It’s leads to a myriad of decisions and actions about what to search for and where to look. But this constant searching can’t go on for long. Exploration needs a stopping rule.
  • 7. 7 Double Freytag – The Cheap Trick Finding the leverage point – something to work with “The moment occurs when you recognize an exploitable pattern in the raw material you have collected in your exploration. The immediate consequence of this recognition is drawing of a relevance boundary. Things that conform to the pattern are deemed relevant and included in the mental model. Things that don’t conform are excluded. The unexplained chaos in your head separates into exploitable meaning and ignorable noise… This information is necessarily local in space and time… There is no known systemic method for triggering a cheap trick.” [27] “Every such insight is flawed, since it is based on excluding some part of reality as noise. This will eventually catch up with you, so the insight merely buys you a certain amount of time.” [27] The danger, “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” H.L. Mencken The cheap trick is the ‘ah-ha’ or ‘oh sh_t’ moment when the data becomes information, you found the difference that makes a difference, an idea is born. But “Timing is critical.” [27] If you stop exploration too early or too late “you will fall victim to either expediency or perfectionism… the narrative-rational decision-maker looks for steals and bargains.” [27] Close enough will do.
  • 8. 8 Double Freytag – Sense-making At last there’s something that makes sense “A cheap trick is not just an exploitable insight, it is an organizing insight. It serves as a speck of dust… It allows you to make sense of what you’ve learned.” [27] “This is why ‘most compelling (comprehensive) and elegant (compact) story’ is the guiding heuristic in narrative-rational decision-making. This compression and compaction creates a mental model where the pieces fit together in a meaningful way…” [27] It’s a starting point, “a cleavage term.” [25] “Sensemaking involves the ongoing retrospective development of plausible images that rationalize what people are doing. Viewed as a significant process of organizing, sense-making unfolds as a sequence in which people concerned with identity in the social context of other actors engage ongoing circumstances from which they extract cues and make plausible sense retrospectively, while enacting more or less order into those ongoing circumstances.” [33, 34] “Elegant and compelling, however, do not add up to real… Your mental model has not yet weathered an encounter with new realities” [27]
  • 9. 9 Double Freytag – The Valley “Charging ahead in the dark.” [27] “In the valley, you encounter diminishing returns from the organizing capacity of the cheap trick. As the leverage provided by the cheap trick is exhausted, the enactment requires increasing amounts of raw energy. You are sustained only by the belief that you are cheating nature on a grander scale.” [27] “The characteristic feature of the valley is decisive action without either reward or validation.” [27] “The valley is the longest and most difficult phase of a deep story, but curiously, it is hard to say anything about it… In movies about underdogs winning sporting contests, this is the part that screenwriters skip over lightly, with the help of a montage set to inspirational music.” [27] The plan is coming together but has yet to be tested against the world. Optimism and ignorance keep the project going. The past is based on the cheap trick and the future on timing and opportunity. All this is played out against a running clock, declining energy and increased waste.
  • 10. 10 Double Freytag – The Heavy Lift “We exit the valley with a massive effort of will: the heavy lift” [27] “If you’ve ever pulled an all-nighter to finish a major project… despite doubts, to launch the product of your efforts into the wider world, you’ve experienced the heavy lift.” [27] “A heavy lift is always required in a deep story… the do or die of the effort is what makes it a deadline. In any consequential situation, the decision to start a heavy lift is deliberate, not forced.” [27] “Like all mental models, the mental model created by the deep story is unstable. It starts to disintegrate in the absence of a continuous stream of reinforcement through situational feedback.” [27] The model is finally exposed to the environment. Friction modifies it from its pure, theoretical tenets to a constrained reality. Optimism and ignorance are tempered by experience and feedback. The opponents opposition and teammates buy in play a large role in the finished product. Finally, as you pay more attention to what you’re doing serial processing increases the demand for energy. [12,23]
  • 11. 11 Double Freytag – The Separation Event “The externalized mental model is an organic entity…” [27] “The separation event is the moment when a significant proportion of the newly created mental model, along with its momentum, is externalized into the environment, as your act of creative destruction.” [7,27] “It is no longer entirely within your control… This moment is commonly referred to as the moment of truth, since it typically either validates or invalidates the assumptions underlying… the valley and heavy lift.” [27] “Besides being a major and irreversible encounter with reality, the separation event involves a parting of ways… Through externalization, a part of the mental model… becomes codified and embedded into a reality upon which others will… imbue with their own meanings. Beyond the separation event, we can only choose to participate in the construction of shared mental models.” [27] The action is now a part others experience and new information. Your private thoughts become part of the public domain. Your control over your own creation rapidly fades
  • 12. 12 Double Freytag – The Retrospective The road from participation to reification “In this phase, the decision-maker’s doctrine is… revised, to reflect the morals of the deep story just experienced. The deep story itself, as a memory, is cast into its final stable form, in a way that validates the revised doctrine.” [27] “Since we rewrite history to support this expedient doctrine, retrospectives can lead to delusions as easily as… to wisdom.” [27] “The retrospective is not the same as a… debrief or assessment that might follow the accomplishment of (an)… objective. It is the psychological consequence of either success or failure…” [27] At last the action has been vetted against the environment. It’s now ready to become a new memory, one that carries what Rinus Michels calls “emotional ballast”. It sinks into history and becomes one more stored mental model that you have to draw from for future efforts. Participation passes into reification.
  • 13. 13 Double Freytag – Closing Liminal Passage “As the retrospective tapers off, once again we enter a liminal passage” [27] “With the benefit of hindsight, the stable memory of the deep story, as well as a revised doctrine and self-archetype take shape during the retrospective. Whether your reconstructed memories are delusions or critical histories depends on your capacity for honest introspection.” [27]  “Talk is intrinsically problematic because the reconstruction of… activity in retrospect… begins with the result that is now known, and it is shaped by that knowing.” [24] The difference between the opening and closing liminal passages of the deep story represent a “sui generis mental model.” [27] The change in elevation between the liminal passages (double arrow) is due largely to the value of the deep story. Stress and tension play a role in the value. Not enough, it’s boring. Too much, it’s overwhelming. Managing this part of player education is a coaching art. It requires good fingerspitzengefühl i.e. expertise in leadership and management.
  • 14. 14 Freytag Staircase, accumulating experience “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end” Dan Wilson, Closing Time “Freytag Staircase: A view [of] a life narrative as a string of deep stories, with each successive liminal passage being, on average, a little higher than the previous one. The difference between the initial and final liminal passages in a deep story embedded within the staircase can be interpreted equally well as doctrinal growth, or decay.” [http://www.tempobook.com/glossary/#freytag-staircase]
  • 15. 15 Freytag Staircase, accumulating experience “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end” Dan Wilson, Closing Time Some deep stories contribute to a broadening of experience (learning) while others invalidate previous convictions and doctrines (unlearning). The later is usually disturbing because it creates a conceptual hole where a model once was. That loss may not be filled until a new deep story has been enacted. The Freytag staircase handles the many personal identities that contribute to experience and memory. Calculative developmental, i.e. closed system models, ignore these or treat them as little more than inconveniences. The straight line to an optimized goal reflects the path that teaching curriculums imagine the student will take. The messy path and uncertain end of the Freytag staircase reflects life as it actually unfolds. Friction, chance and luck produce anomalies in both the process and product of growth and development.
  • 16. 16 The older you get, the fewer Deep Stories you write Fatigue sets in and doctrine becomes dogma “In open worlds, understanding is a live, ongoing battle… this ongoing understanding of the world… weakens over time for any decision-maker with finite capabilities. As we age, we become more doctrinaire and less capable of open-world learning. Narrative-rational decision-makers necessarily age over time.” [27] The older we get the more we come to rely on routines. We can begin to live our lives in a liminal passage rut. Anomalies outside of the norm are missed or dismissed. The energy to explore the “blooming buzzing confusion” isn’t available or we rationalize the need away through some previous bias. We’ve ‘seen it all’ and become prisoners of either System 1, peer pressure - the moral/social system, lethergy or apathy. The construction of Deep Stories requires hard work from System 2. If it’s not engaged, we may stay stuck in a liminal passage. When that happens growth, learning and development are stifled, even stopped. Even in a short run this can have disastrous consequences. [17]
  • 17. 17 How long does it take to live a Deep Story? Wag Dodge and twelve minutes [22,28,32,33] “The Freytag staircase helps us to think about cradle-to-grave life narratives.” [27] But for the practical purposes of learning we need shorter time-scales. The 1949 Mann Gulch Fire provides a lesson in how rapidly deep stories can be enacted. [22,28,32,33] At 5:45 Dodge turns the crew around and they start back up the gulch. He is still in his opening liminal passage. We have a problem and routine procedure is the best option at this time. As he moves back up the gulch he becomes suspicious, the fire is gaining and the current procedure might not get the desired result, safety for himself and his crew. As he walks he begins to explore other conceptual and environmental options. At 5:53 Dodge departs from procedure, orders the crew to drop their packs, tools and to pick up the pace. Suspicion begins to overwhelm the opening liminal passage. Exploration takes on greater urgency, for some it becomes desperation and panic. A false cheap trick is enacted. At 5:55 Dodge finds another cheap trick, the fire triangle and makes sense of the situation, remove a corner. It’s a gamble but the environment is right. He sets the escape fire, a novel semi-autonomous action. He has less then sixty seconds in the valley before the heavy lift when he enters the ‘black,’ and the fire reaches his position. AT 5:57 the fire has passed Dodge but caught thirteen members of his crew, the separation event. Dodge never fully gets through the retrospective. The Forest Service however, quickly realizes the product of Dodge’s deep story at the global level. They institutionalize “escape fires/create the black” as a matter of procedure. Deep stories help to explain how new archetypes are created but do little to shed light on how, when or where decisions have been rendered. Furthermore, they require time-scales long enough to enact the story, something incompatible with adversarial decision-making i.e. 1v1. These aspects are covered by the shorter time-scales of OODA, LIDA cycles and loops.
  • 18. OODA’s and LIDA’s, the circulatory system in Deep Stories 18 Blood, OODA’s, LIDA’s – connective tissues for feed forward and feedback The OODA and LIDA models are based on models of human cognition. The quotes concern the LIDA model and the comparisons are mine. Concerning input, time-scales and output I consider the OODA and LIDA models to be identical due to the genetic constraints of both. “We propose that human cognition consists of cascading cycles of recurring brain events. Each cognitive cycle senses the current situation, interprets it with reference to ongoing goals, and then selects an internal or external action in response… One cognitive cycle would therefore take 260– 390 ms.” [2,12,23] “Conscious events occur as a sequence of discrete, coherent episodes separated by quite short periods of no conscious content.” “In the LIDA model, single conscious episodes are discrete but… not necessarily distinct – a current conscious ‘moment’ can contain percepts from a previous moment.” [2,12,23] The carry over of percepts allows two or more cycles to combine into a coherent idea over longer times; continuity is maintained. [2,12,23] This allows more robust conceptual models to be built by combining cycles and loops together. This model does have its upper temporal and information carrying limits. Entropy incurred in the processing of these cycles and loops, new information and feedback continually degrades/alters the concept as its being constructed. Mismatches with reality grow. When a loop becomes fatigued or outdated new cycles/loops can join during the “quite short periods of no conscious content.” Like breaking into an on-going conversation the model is updated, repaired or replaced on the fly.
  • 19. 19 OODA’s/LIDA’s are the control systems which never rest The Deep Story is in command Every phase of a deep story runs on a longer time-scale than OODA’s/LIDA’s. “Against such a background, actions and decisions become critically important. Actions must be taken over and over again and in many different ways. Decisions must be rendered to monitor and determine the precise nature of the actions needed that will be compatible with the goal.” [7] OODA’s/LIDA’s work as the lookouts for the lazy System 2 keeping it updated as needed. Their shorter time-scale allows them greater sensitivity to changes. It also allows these short-term “working memories” to be easily disposed of keeping valuable computational space available for real problems. Deep stories face two major challenges, changing goals and entropy. For the former the goals of survive, survive on our own terms, thrive and grow are constrained and influenced by changing environments, internal and external. A threat one moment/cycle can become an opportunity the next. This can reverse the course of an action in milliseconds. Entropy means that each phase of a deep story faces decay without introducing new energy in the form of work, i.e. new information. Even in quiet times updating needs to be done to match a changing environment. Simply doing more of the same thing, or doing it better works for awhile. In the short run the desireable steady state maybe maintained. This is often the view within an organization or an internally focused system, don’t fix what ain’t broke. These systems exist in a bubble and are resistant to change.
  • 20. 20 Working with time scales OODA’s-fast and short-lived; Deep Stories-slow and long lasting OODA’s are sensitive to anything that “engages the spotlight of attention.” [31] A short list includes; novelty, relevancy (to the norm or an anomaly), informativeness, problems, inconsistency (a break in the patterns necessary to maintain the current state), violated expectations and whatever can’t be dealt with by System 1 (we maybe in over our head). [31] Once something new has “engaged the spotlight of attention” System 2 can begin work. The difference in time scales between OODA’s and Deep Stories makes this marriage possible. The shorter time scales of the former allow for quick observation, faster reorientation, rapid decision-making and action at a small energy cost. These rapid cycles and loops are rendered at every stage of the deep story. It’s their short time-scale that makes them invisible when viewed against the longer time-scale of the story itself. We know that a computer is composed of atoms, but we can’t see them, just the hardware they make up. This is a short-coming in language.  “Action is seen, as it were, through the prism of ‘a decision…’ It is not a decision but a sequence of acts of deciding being described as though it were a single decision. Language is always reducing complexities.” [24]
  • 21. 21 Deep Stories, conflict and OODA’s "War is… an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will.” Carl von Clausewitz “In making the final cut of ideas to include in the book, I decided to leave out adversarial decision-making, so I limited my explicit discussion of the OODA loop to a few passages. I was surprised to discover just how deeply the ideas in Tempo resonated with OODA. Though I was using a different vocabulary and exploring decision-making phenomena in non-adversarial settings, I seemed to have converged on many of the same core foundational themes, such as entropy, mental models, narratives and of course, tempo itself.” [26] We cannot understand decision-making in soccer without considering an active, hostile and capable opponent. The opponent will not willing submit to our will. He or she must be compelled to do our bidding. At the same time they will attempt to compel us to do theirs. Decision-making resembles a rapid (OODA time-scales) negative feedback loop between efforts to isolate the opponent and to interact with teammates physically, mentally or morally against the background of the on-going enactment. Both parties have a say in how the story unfolds and ends. Whoever can get the jump on their opponent and operate at a higher tempo (shorter time-scale) has an advantage. They will be able to shape the deep story as it’s being enacted. Players who think “what effect can I have on the opponent” will have a significant mental edge over those who think “what can I do.” The former starts with an external target, the later with internal capabilities and constraints.
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  • 25. 25 Thank you “I’ll live or die by my own ideas.” Johan Cruyff Presentation created January 2014 by Larry Paul, Peoria Arizona. All references are available as stated. All content is the responsibility of the author. For questions or to inquire how to arrange a consultation or workshop on this topic you can contact me at larry4v4@hotmail.com, subject line; decision/action model. For more information visit the bettersoccermorefun channel on YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/user/bettersoccermorefun?feature=watch or Street soccer, a guide to using small sided games at Udemy, https://www.udemy.com/street-soccer-a-guide-to-using-small-sidedgames/? sl=E0IZeFxSVw%3D%3D