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Being a successful strategic thinker (What is stratgic thinking? (7…

- - - - to learn the principles of proper strategy
  - - - Invest time in sending spies, meet with them, get reports to get what's actually going on, uses intel to make decisions
      - Prepares strategic resource: food, war planes, alterar
    - - Then backward enginner every battle: will winning this battle actualy get me to winning the war
- - - - ON LIFE
        
        On mastery process
        
        Relationships
        
        Love
        
        Finances
        
        Self-knowledge
        
        How do I work?
        
        study the machine that is the mind and human being?
- - - - So we must study ourselves
        
        How do I go to war with myself? Sabatage myself?
        
        Most people never do this: It should be what we do with all of our spare time, it should be the most important thing we do.
        
        Common PLunders
        
        Getting married in 20s
        
        drinking and partying in college
        
        not devleoping mastery
        
        eating unk food
        
        chasing money rather than passion
        
        chasing achievement and status in life rather than passion
        
        staying loyal to a dysfuncational family matter
        
        thinking you can get something for nothing
        
        going into debt, credit cards
        
        working in a boss: in a giant company
        
        working 80 hours a week
        
        too cheap to buy books, or invest in an online course or information product, too cheap to go to a therapist or life coach, too cheap to go to a seminar
        
        living in the wrong place
        
        chasing sex or love
        
        neglecting meditation and enlightment work
        
        taking religion too seriously
        
        Basically a blunder is come from: not doing the right thing at the right time
        
        NEed to think Macro and also think Micro. Need to jump back and forth from macro to micro, every single day
        
        Macro: stuck in airy fairy dreamer land
        
        Skill that needs to be developed
        
        Micro: stuck in the minutiea
        
        Being able to think Macro and Micro
        
        Getting caught in the mind
        
        people cant delay gratification
        
        chasing for pleasure: for the immediate gain
        
        THERE CANNOT BE A STRATEGY IS YOUR STRATEGY IS IMMEDIATE GAIN = disasterous military campaign
        
        Everything promised to you is instant, fast, flashy: I get use to it, so I chase it and forget that all the really important stuff in life
        
        The CUL-DE-SACS in life: things you shouldn't do, the things that are traps, dangerous, things that are risky, costly, dont take it seriously
        
        sleeping around
        
        Chase the small prize vs the big prize
        
        Judge: "this is nice, but there a bigger prize, maybe theres a factor that renders the third thing not even wortht it compared to this thing
        
        What are the cultural and business traps?
        
        in religion, education, politics, social circle, media, advertis
        
        No Strategic intent: NO BIG VISION: SEE 10, 20, 30 years down the road
        
        =lack of motivation, lack of results,
        
        More than just applying some little "techniques" here or there
  - - - "a compelling vision of the future that motivates action,"
      - Ultimate thing that you're going for. The ultimate outcome that you want. It needs to inform all the steps.
      - a road trip with a desitination. You know which way you want to turn, which roads to take.
      - EVERYDAY: IS THIS ACTION MOVING me toward getting me where I want to go?"
    - - Using charismisa