![]() The strategist starts with a goal in the distant future and works backward to the present.As you jump from one new thing to the next, you will be pulled off course, caught up in what’s right in front of you instead of what you need to achieve. The lesson here is that if you play without long-term goals your decisions will become purely reactive and you’ll be playing your opponent’s game, not your own.Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” As Sun Tzu wrote centuries ago, “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. No matter what pursuit you’re engaged in-chess, business, the military, managing a sports team-it takes both good tactics and wise strategy to be successful. Tactics are conditional and opportunistic, all about threat and defense. Whereas strategy is abstract and based on long-term goals, tactics are concrete and based on finding the best move right now.You must also become intimately aware of the methods you use to reach your decisions. It’s not enough to work hard and to study late into the night. There, inside each of us, is our unique secret of success. You must become conscious of your decision-making processes, and with practice they will improve your intuitive-unconscious- performance. Developing your personal blueprint allows you to make better decisions, to have the confidence to trust your instincts, and to know that no matter the result, you will come out stronger. Better Decision-Making Cannot Be Taught, but It Can Be Self-Taught.This is what my questioners should really have been asking me about instead of my trivial habits: How did I push myself? What questions did I ask myself? How did I investigate and understand my strengths and weaknesses? And how did I use what I learned to get better and further define and hone my method? To begin, ask yourself, What am I lacking? What are my strengths? What type of challenges do I tend to avoid and why? The method you employ to achieve success is a secret because it can be discovered only by you analyzing your own decisions. You must instead recognize what works best for you and then, through challenge and trial, develop your own method-your own map. Personal style is not generic software you can download and install. We cannot pick and choose which style we would prefer for ourselves.We must all look higher and dig deeper, move beyond the basic and universal. There is no advantage in trying to identify the common denominator that links you to your friends or colleagues or opponents. ![]() Most important, you must look to develop your own map. ![]() It reveals your strengths, weaknesses, and areas as yet untested. The map tells you which areas of your mind are well-known to you and which are still uncharted. Having a personalized map of your decision-making process is essential, and this book can only roughly chart the stages of observation and analysis that go into drawing that map. But before we go exploring, we’ll need a map.
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