Strategy and Tactics: Two Essential Keys to Success

I recently read Outlive by Peter Attia. It’s a book about longevity that I found insightful. It contains many lessons about different aspects of health. However, what I’d like to share with you here isn’t the health lessons from the book. Instead, it’s a quote by Sun Tzu that I found there: Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. Interesting quote, isn’t it? Strategy without tactics might lead you to victory, but it’s the slowest route to get there. You will waste a lot of resources along the way. On the other hand, tactics without strategy is even worse. You might do a lot of things, but there is no coherence in your effort. As a result, it’s simply noise before defeat. So, you need both strategy and tactics. You need to know what you want to accomplish and how to do that efficiently. It’s easier said than done, of course. But here are two simple tips: To plan your strategy, study your opponent.To plan your tactics, simplify and experiment. Let’s dive into them one by one. 1. To Plan Your Strategy, Study Your Opponent In Outlive, the author plans his strategy by first studying the opponents. Because the book is about longevity, the opponents are the four chronic diseases of aging: heart disease, cancer, neurodegenerative disease, and type 2 diabetes. The author examined them to learn how they work, and then formed a strategy based on that. Similarly, you sho...
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