Why do we get sunk?

[Sockeye]

Originally Posted by meduza

I was so confident

I believe it was Spitfire pilot Raymond Munro who defined confidence as "that warm fuzzy feeling you get just before you slip on the banana peel!" in his autobiography The Sky's No Limit.

That's what I think usually sinks me: getting into something that hasn't been fully thought out, throwing caution to the wind, underestimating an opponent, however you choose. The underestimating is probably the biggest factor for me; as long as I treat every destroyer as a possible fanatic Sockeye-killing zealot, things seem to turn out okay or are at least manageable. Right now, my mind is focusing on "aggressive caution" as how I'd describe... my personality in general, maybe (one of them, anyways).

Along those lines, I think that the best advice comes from Dick O'Kane's Clear the Bridge!:

"Be on either the offensive or the defensive, never in-between."