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Most of the points seem to be 'Do I have situational awareness of how what I'm doing fits into the bigger picture.' Generally a good thing to have.


Not just that, but also "am I in the habit of doing things that are conducive to situational awareness" which is perhaps the even more important bit! You can have all the situational awareness in the world now, but when it really matters is when the context changes.


No disagreement, but I'd suggest that situational awareness is an ongoing thing, so if you don't notice when context changes, you never really had situational awareness.


One funny thing about situational awareness is that when you lose it, you don't always know, because, well, you've lost your SA.

Put differently, something you consistently find when you postmortem incidents where people have lost their SA is that they thought at the time they had full SA. They only notice they've lost it when things are clearly going downhill.

So it's important to regularly re-ground yourself with reality even if you think you don't need it. That's a critical component of maintaining SA.




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