All Navy aircraft train at NAS Fallon — where Top Gun really is. For months we train every mission. The whole air wing in the air at once. 20 to 30 aircraft, each flying its piece of the plan. Usually a strike package going in-country to hit a target and come home. Simulated enemy aircraft. Real bombs.

The real training is the debrief. Every pilot who flew, in one room, for three hours. Sometimes until 1 AM. Often times over a beer or two.

There's a giant screen showing every airplane and missile in the sky. The replay runs minute by minute.

"Stop frame. Eagle 13, what was the call you made here? What did you see?"

The pilot stands up in front of everybody and repeats the call. Even if it was wrong. Even if it got a plane killed. He says what he saw. Then the weapons tactic instructor walks through what he saw. No judgment, just the expert explaining what he was looking at.

It's brutal. Every mistake, every missed recognition, every bomb dropped is critiqued in front of all your best friends.

But this is what learning from expertise actually requires.

State what you saw. See the outcome. See what an expert saw that you missed. Update your model.

I'm looking for ways to teach this to my kids. It's applicable to investing, business, art, music, science. Our education system offers no opportunities to learn it.

Which sees like a miss.