For a moment there, I thought Lloyd *actually* heard a rat in his room.

I finally understand why my teammates rush B with me until they suddenly don't.

Military Commander: “Why are our troops doing nothing?” Soldier: “because the guy playing civilization 6 IS FUCKING AFK”

“War is a bore, interrupted by moments of terror when men die.” - U.S. Army grunt in Vietnam

Lindybeige: "A member of a species rarely kills another member of the same species" Humans: *Laughs in homo sapien*

Commander: You are going to storm the enemy base. Got it? Soldiers: OH SHIIIIIIT! A RAT!

Lindybeige is the only KZfaqr to make a 47 minute long video on men doing nothing, and make it interesting.

I am a male and have memories of being a child, this guy is crazy smart

My psychology teacher in school did a test where for 10 minutes he would ring a bell (every minute) and turn the lights off for a second after be rang the bell. The 10th time he rang the bell he did not turn off the light, but about 80% of the class reported that they "saw the lights go off for a second" even though the were still on. Seeing what you expect is pretty incredible

Lindybeige realized he needed to organize the paint tins but decided to do a 47 minute video instead.

"Why do Soldiers do NOTHING?!" Reasons- Watching something. Taking a break. Thinking about not being there. Thinking about home/family. Waiting for someone or something. Shamming. Security. Bored to tears. Hating THAT guy. Taking a personal moment. BSing. Aaaaaaannnnnnddd everything this guy just explained.

"Your rifle, is only a tool. It is a hard heart that kills. When your killer instincts, are not clean, and strong, you will HESITATE at the moment of truth. You will not kill..." - Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. That hesitation is the 'cognitive blink'.

My supervisor: What do you mean you were just sitting there for 45 minutes not doing anything? Me: You see, this guy called Lloyd uploaded a video. Supervisor: What video? Me: A video explaining why people sit there doing nothing.

75% of a soldier's time is basically him counting on his fingers, 20% of said time is dedicated to checking if they're still here and the 5 remaining percents are spent actually losing them.

With all the modern content creators making 7 cuts in one sentence it's such a joy to see you go for a straight hour monologue presentation with next to no cuts. What a legend

“But imagine if, having trained for this war, another war starts with the Russians, for instance.” Thanks, Lindy.

On the muscle memory thing, my father once told a story of having to do fire drills on the commerce ship he was working on. When it came to the real deal, the one in charge ordered them to go look for the key to the cabinet where the extinguisher was kept, even though it says "break glass in case of emergency" right on top of it. Luckily, someone did snap out of habit and broke the glass anyway. During training, they had always unlocked the cabinet with the key, rather than breaking and replacing the glass pane with every exercise and so that's what they initially tried to do when the fire broke out.

* hand to hand combat rages across the battlefield * Random officer: look at Hans over there that madlad is still digging the trench!

Being a serial fusser, this struck a chord. Neatly arranged grenades are good for the morale.

When I was 7 or so, I was walking behind a truck with a couple friends, just as the backup beeper started. My friends jumped out of the way. I froze so badly, the driver, who'd seen us walk behind the truck or saw my friends yelling at me, got out and walked back to find me still frozen. He yelled at me to move out of the way. I could not move. He had to physically move me. As soon as he started moving me, I could move again. I hated that. I really felt completely helpless. I thought about it a LOT. I have spent a lot of time thinking about how to respond to different situations. I think that is why now I am the one who keeps moving when others around me freeze.

Stories from Iraq; Squad that was trained to call for air strikes hesitated when facing a machine gun nest. They didn't want to bother the air force or such. Another group hesitated to use their anti-tank missiles against firing enemy tanks because they were horribly expensive.

If I move from cover I might get shot. *move soldier!* "no... I don't think I will."

Re: changing orders: "A plan is only good until contact with the enemy." This is also why the fragmentary/warning orders exist: a good plan executed late is worse than a mediocre plan executed early.

I have personally witnessed something like this when I was in Ukraine when my fire team conducted an "ambush" on a Ukrainian platoon. Our NCO who was with them told them their officers and NCOs were dead and the privates just sat there not knowing what to do

"He's just standing there... MENACINGLY!!!"

Having spent 24 years in the Canadian Army I only too well know the phrase "Hurry up and wait" " On the APC or off the APC" or "Prepare to move in 10" and waited a half hour while senior NCOs and officers milled about like cattle trying to think about what to do next.

"What color was the snake's tongue?" Me, who is colorblind: My life couldn't prepare me for this.

To Loyd @ Lindybeige You have no idea of how helpful this has been in helping me in understanding an error I made recently as a nurse and coming to terms with it as both a professional and as a person Thank you so much .

One eyed Simon still remembers the day he cut in on the lunch line.

That awkward moment when you realize that this is how you react to every slightly stressful situation.

"To be in the presence of a dangerous predator is very dangerous." Much learning being learned

I'm a newly qualified nurse working in a very busy receiving ward during a worldwide pandemic. This talk is actually really helpful in evaluating ways that I have responded to stress and medical emergencies.

Prince Edmund: I mean, everything seems to be going very well, doesn’t it? Everyone’s fighting - clearly having the time of their lives. Wait a moment; some of them over there aren’t fighting! They’re… they’re just lying down! Baldrick: They’re dead, My Lord.

As a former infantryman I can tell you that many soldiers prefer to do nothing (goldbrick) until made to move. This is why butt-kicking sargents are the backbone of all armies,

The "fussing" can be also observed in video games players... I can't give an example but I KNOW that I've experienced that, probably in some kind of competetive multiplayer game

I've worked with a SWAT team before, and its amazing how they train out this cognitive blink. They call it target acquisition. The drill is basically they will have a number of colored balloons, maybe 6 different colors and 15 balloons. They will take all the balloons on a bus (or wherever they are training), and tape them around head height. Sometimes they will even tape a balloon on the shoulder of an actor. The as the SWAT team are rolling up in their APC, or sometimes even moments before getting on the bus, the team leader will radio them what color balloon is the "bad guy." In this scenario they are instructed to use lethal force from the start. The SWAT guys do their thing and board the bus, while INSTANTLY shooting all of the bad guy balloons with literally no hesitation. To make sure they also get human targets, an actor will randomly be selected to be a bad guy as well, and that actor gets some padding and a huge face shield because the sim rounds hurt lol. My point being, these guys basically train like this constantly, and they really do train out any hesitation whatsoever before they shoot. I could see the newer guys were a bit slower too, especially when it can to lighting up an actor. and sometimes actors were given the extra gear without being a bad guy too, so the team couldn't just keep that actor covered in particular. Its also conforting to know that if i'm ever held hostage and the bad guy puts his arm around my neck to hold me, the SWAT team will just instantly shoot him in the face the moment they see him. And they don't miss. They ran that drill over and over and over and never a single time did any of the guys miss any balloons, or hit the wrong target. The only missed a target once or twice

“I fear no man..” “But that thing..” *rat* “It scares me.”

I was also wondering why everyone went afk once the comander said we needed to charge the enemy base

In Phoenix, AZ in the summer, daytime, excellent visibility. I was walking up a sidestreet towards a busy main road. I saw a big biker on a huge Harley stop and wait to make a left turn. Traffic was heavy, so he was there for a while. I watched as a lady pulled up from the other side of the main road (and so facing me). She looked left, right, looked right at the bike, and hit the gas. Slammed right into him. I hung around as a witness. Police showed up, she kept repeating what she'd said when she first got out of the car. Said the bike came out of nowhere. I've seen this even more up close and personal, riding my 10 speed. Numerous times I'd be riding on the main road, someone would pull up a side road, look left, right, look right at me and hit the gas. So many times I was nearly hit and probably killed, but I was paying attention and barely got out of the way. Many would speed away. The few that stopped all said the same thing, that I came out of nowhere. Somehow, on a sunny day with little traffic, they did not see me because they are looking for cars. I've had it happen when on foot, too. I look very closely at cars coming up sidestreets to see if they see me. I've had a number of times where I've ended up jumping on someone's hood to avoid getting run over. And I'd often see them look right at me before hitting the gas, then claim that I must have come running from behind a building.

The maverick thing reminds me of the story of the Aquilifer at Julius Caesars invasion of Britain, the soldiers were reluctant to hop off because the britons were throwing missiles, so the aquilifer (Eagle bearer) yelled for them to follow me and jumped off the ship.

The multi-loaded muskets blows my mind. That's so interesting, it makes perfect sense, but who would have expected that?

Telling the men to stop fussing and get on with it. Yup, he's English.

They're called Simunition. They hurt like a mother. You will only flub about and get hit ONCE max, then you'll know why you need to take the training deadly seriously.

I do enjoy your videos, they are so real and accurate. I hope those who have never been in battle pay attention. I recall a time in 1971 in Vietnam. I was a communicator, it was my mission to keep the rear area advised on the progress of a mission into enemy territory in an attempt to slow down the infiltration of arms and men into the area from the North. We came under ground attack of our small firebase located near the border where the attacks were aimed. I ended up in a bunker on the parameter, now I was a farm boy, I grew up with a rifle in my hands. My cousins and I used to practice with our .22's lighting farmers matches at a distance where only the red was visible, and we got quite good at that. The 5.56 ammo that we had in the M-16 was, in fact a very fast .22. The rifle had no recoil and was very accurate if you knew how to use it. In the same bunker was a member of the infantry unit that was supposed to be keeping our little base secure, attacking were some damn good soldiers out of North Vietnam, regulars, not the VC that we were used to seeing. There were three soldiers running full on toward our area of the fence, which had been blown down by rocket fire earlier in the day. The infantry man beside me had his rifle on full auto, and was trying to hit those enemy soldiers. I looked out the slit in our bunker and saw his ammo hitting the ground some 6 feet in front of our bunker. So for some reason I still had my head about me, I took quick aim, much like I had when I was a boy with my .22, and killed the three enemy. When things had settled down, the infantry man who was with me was jumping up and down proclaiming himself the "king of the bunker!" claiming 3 kills. Personally I didn't give a shit about counts, and let him go with his claim to fame. I was just happy to have survived the attack, and to get back to my radio teletype rig and some peace and quiet.

An extended 47 minutes of why squaddies do nothing. It's marvelous.

I saw the snake, but I’m more hung up on the fact that the “orange” circles looked yellow to me.

Lindybeige has me hooked. I love history. Being a Homeboy from L.A., I often think how it would playout if Lindy was a L.A. gang member explaining his experiences and war stories. Planning a driveby and looking for those other "chaps". Shooting projectiles from their conveyance.

*holding uzi's at the window* "Move Trinity, move!" ... *shaking with anticipation.* ... Gets up and runs.

That's why as corpsmen we were drilled again and again and again on 2 maxims. 1 - The best battlefield medicine is fire superiority 2 - Recover the patient to safe cover

"The worst thing you can do about something , is tell an officer about it." There is a really warped logic in the military.

Freezing when faced by a predator is often the smartest thing to do. Most predators have a strong impulse to chase anything that runs from them, It's basically a clear sign of fear in the prey. If you stand your ground you can sow the seed of doubt in the mind of the predator. This also play an important role within species social interactions. However in family group species the tribe comes first so many members will wait to see the majority reaction. You cannot have a group of leaders.

"Hardly any paint in that one so you're gonn- oop" Rat: ○_○

Lindybeige i love how you focus more on psychology now it’s great. I love history and stories but psychological observations or phenomena are as interesting and that knowledge is applicable in real life, that’s cool

You are in cover, you are safe, go away from that safety soldier!!! Gee i wonder why they do nothing.

I felt real smart when i noticed the snake and im now disappointed that i didnt see the tongue colour :(

Its kind of amazing how captivating your are sir. A man stands in front of a camera with no tricks (save a ghost snake) and just talks. I don't feel without in the way of graphics, video demonstrations, animations. Its all just you talking, and I've been listening for years. Thank you Lindybeige

Oddly specific examples of childhood violence.

I remember reading about Gettysburg muskets with multiple loads in them, I know that the U.S Army did a study on that and they came to the conclusion that it was simply due to the fact that people were trained on circular targets and did not want to kill subconsciously.They vividly remember pulling the trigger and firing, but as it turns out they did not. I know that the soldiers the interviewed spoke of this years later about how they almost blew their shoulder/face off from recoil or explosions.I also know some of them who survived the battle while cleaning and maintaining their muskets, realized what they did. This led to the U.S Army switching to human shaped silhouettes to get soldiers used to shooting at similar shaped silhouettes in real battle. Ill edit this as soon as i can find this article. Its pretty dated.

Ah yes, the “...” option on the action/speech wheel.

My dad was a company commander in Vietnam and he said the lieutenants and platoon sergeants did most of the fighting while the privates mostly provided cover fire.

“So you can autopilot your breathing”. My lungs-fuck off, do it yourself now.

So gratifying being called hard as nails by uncle Lindy

I think one form of freezing up that i encounter everyday is when a light turns green at a traffic light. Often times people will hesitate for a few seconds if nobody else moves but as soon as one car starts to go everybody else realizes it’s safe and snaps back into reality. It’s interesting because I’ve been in both mindsets I’ve had times where I just wait for another car to go and then afterwards wonder why I hesitated despite it being safe but then I’ve had many times where I check to see it’s safe and confirm the lights green and start to go and wonder why everyone else didn’t start to drive before me then oftentimes the cars that hesitated will almost speed past me as if they realized their supposed to go now and wanted to catch up.

This is literally Csgo when you hear a scope click

Wait. Hold on... Is that wild looking man rambling? Better watch it, might go on for 47 minutes.

I was going to skip the ad, but the man picked up a ukulele

I really enjoyed how illustrative and captivating these explanations were. You have a great ability to hammer down the point and make sense of all these theories with examples!

You have a similar phenomenon in riots. It depends on each persons threshold for freaking out. There might be one maverick who will be the first one to throw a brick or Molotov, but there might also be ten people who will throw bricks if one other person. Then there are those with a threshold of 10, 20, 30. By the time you get to 100 people rioting, even your grandmother would join in because everyone has a threshold below 100.

i had this moment when i was about 13, i saw everyone staring at this bum passed out or something in the middle of the road as cars pass right past him,.i look at him, i look at the people around me, none was moving, stand around for a few more seconds until i decide to try and help, i take a few steps and multiple people rush past me to help him. i see he'l get help so i do a 180 and carry on with my day.

You can see a 'cognitive blink' in Band of Brothers in an encounter with the red-haired US paratrooper and the German 'boy' soldier.

This man needs to be an actor or one of the guys in the history documentaries that get incredibly passionate about the subject. I was actually worried about Denis, no lie.

Speaking of psychology, this whole lecture is stressing me out.

It was you! I remember that pencil! Won't catch me blindsided this time, Lindy!

For a second I actually thought there was a rat in Lloyd's apartment.

One eye Simon and broken legs Johnathan are my new favourite characters

Your discussion of this is very informative, and useful to me. I now have a better understanding of some things that happened around me when I was in Vietnam. In particular, there was one night when my base had incoming heavy mortar fire starting about midnight. I have absolutely no memory of what happened the rest of the night, until a couple of hours after daylight the next day. I now see how that can be very possible. But I got through it, and apparently performed in a way that was acceptable to my officers.

Best order ever given: Churchill to Montgomery, 'Take Africa'. Best response to an order: 3 years later: Montgomery to Churchill: "Africa taken.'

"what color was the snakes" Me: EIGHT IT WAS EIGHT TIMES wait what the hell

"there's a shart crap" Bugger. There goes my sphincter control again. Bloody adrenaline.

8:55 interesting. i've actually experienced this. i was going to the subway and at the entrance there was a guy pulling on a woman's purse, people were watching and doing nothing. the moment i confronted the guy, suddenly loads of people started to close around and call security or a subway stations police. but she was a good 5-10 seconds asking for help and no one stepped forward

Cognitive wink 😉

This is why in emergency/military medicine you always make sure "scene is safe" before treatment. Otherwise you've added casualties.

This is why I love this channel he talks about the real gloom and darkness, reality of war , our weaknesses

I love how your advert breaks aren't soulless plugs, but a genuine review. it's refreshing on youtube.

Me watching the dots: Oh, hey, I see that snake. I'm on to you. I've been through psych 101. Lindybeige: What color was the snake's tongue? Me: ...

That's why commisars and other mad loyal commanders existed. That's why king charging forward was followed by his men because they knew what to do in that moment. They need to charge and this is the only thing hat matters.

your presentation style is so entertaining and explanations so simple and easy to grasp! Every video ive watched so far has taught me so so much! luv it!!

This was amazing. Brilliant work.

"Hurry up and wait" The credo of every army throughout time.

professional armies spend an enormous amount of time and money on training infantrymen to have specific reactions to circumstances. eg: gunshot... hit the deck, determine the direction and distance, give a callout, attack. run, down, crawl, observe, aim, fire. 15 years out of the service and i will never forget it

Wow, this is an awesome video!! So well done!!

Great video! being a serving soldier, this explains a lot and I can relate to how you describe conditions of a soldier in the field. Really informative.

Blessed with a 47 minute video. Kettle's on lads!

"there's a sharp crap" Lloyd 2019

Love the personality and presentation style. Subscribed

Amazing reflection. Thanks.

Lindy: How many people did you very severely injure, put in hospitol or kill? Me: Oh well let's see here ther was- Liny: None Me: oh yes of course that's what i was going to say....

A very good piece. Almost as good as the one about soldiers not shooting enemy soldiers. This kind of show is why I almost compulsively visit your channel. Great job, Lloyd!

This is probably not very acceptable thing to say, but, when it's over and that perfect clarity remains for a short period of time afterwards, it's really beautiful. It's like seeing a world for the first time, everything is brighter and colours are so vibrant and everything is so crisp and clear. Part of the feeling is, probably, also that it's over and you are not dead and you can feel your hearth pounding in your throat and they are gone and you are safe again, but it's one of the best feelings I ever felt and I tried to replicate it by cliff diving, bungee jumping, bungee catapulting and motorcycling and never could. Do not get me wrong, I wouldn't want to live through another round of entire experience, I had more then enough, but I miss that feeling.

I love you lindybeige thanks for everything you've taught us