The next step in McDaniel's basic training program was to teach the student's subconscious mind to solve the various guidance and control problems involved in hitting the aerial target by computing the varying parallax between his direct line-of-sight and the trajectory of the BB fired from the gun held alongside his head as a function of time, and also to identify and extrapolate the trajectory of the lofted flat-washer and its ever-decreasing rate of climb, and then to compute the time-to-target of the fired BB, so as to direct the arms and hands to point and shoot the gun so the fired BB will hit the washer at the washer's location in space at the end of that time-to-target period. McDaniel would swiftly teach the student's subconscious mind to solve those guidance problems and then use those solutions to direct the muscles to aim and shoot the BB gun simply by having the student shoot the BB gun at the target and observe the results, and then compensate for his miss on the next shot. Several critically important factors were involved in that process. The key factor here was that the student was not expected to hit the target and was instead told to bracket it: to stare at the target, note how far and in which direction his BB missed it, and to believe that with his next shot he was going to miss the target by the same distance but in the opposite direction. If he did that faithfully, he would soon end up hitting the target regularly. There were two reasons for that; first, this procedure was one of the basic means for training the subconscious very swiftly to solve the guidance-and-control problems; second, it removed the fear of failure from the equation, making the student no longer feel pressured to hit the target each time.