Dave Lorenzo talks about learning how to think strategically and how it is similar to learning a new foreign language.
- Perfection is simply unattainable when you are learning. Strategic thinking is developed over time, and isn’t an on/off switch you can flip at a whim
- You evaluate, choose, and act, leveraging your experience, and then evaluate the outcome, refining your ability for future decision making. You don’t need to make the perfect decision—you only need to keep making active choices and striving for excellence
- Practice. Keep making better decision over and over, until making best strategic decisions until it becomes second nature.
For the more technically inclined (e.g. programmers), this reminds me a lot of the rule of writing recursive functions.
- The result of each successive computation has to be closer towards the ultimate result, no matter how small of a leap
- Just keep running it as many times as needed (just assume until infinity)
* I’ve ommited the last rule of recursive functions, which is to stop when the result is achieved. Learning how to think strategically should be a life-long learning process. There’s no such thing as too much of it. We just don’t want computations on computers to run forever.
