Name: Become a great strategic thinker | Ian Bremmer
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- Thinking strategically is meta thinking.

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to me about on any given day, or Fox News.

It is instead trying to think about, for me,

lots of different macro themes at the country level,

at the company level, at the individual level,

in leaders that are affected frequently by many of them,

but have very different priorities, needs, and timeframes.

It's very easy to say, okay, I just saw this headline,

and I have a large amount of personal history

and data, and that will allow me to immediately

where I should place it in my existing worldview,

and is there any information there that's dissonant?

That is completely un-strategic thinking?

Strategic thinking is, what goes on outside of that?

What are the ones that aren't so important?

What's changed in the last 10 years or 20 years?

and yet people don't revisit their worldview nearly

And yet, of course, you should revisit your worldview

on a continual basis, not because you were wrong,

but much more likely is, you had some level of rightness.

and if you are not moving, you're gonna become wrong.

I mean, one thing, any analytic view will become wrong

over time, and strategic thinking, I think,

at its base is an effort to prevent that from happening.

Great strategic thinkers are curious and open.

talking about what that means, and moving on.

They're also people that are very curious

and opinions, and analysis that are dramatically different

from their own, and that engage with them,

those are people who tend to be good strategic thinkers.

I don't necessarily say opposing worldviews,

because worldviews don't need to be opposing.

I happen to be born in the United States,

and that of necessity gives me a worldview of that context.

But if I same human being happen to be born in China,

would that give me an opposing worldview?

simply following folks that confirm their priors

but you have to actually build up that training,

and it takes time because your brain doesn't like it

But if you do it enough, and you start breaking down

It's just that they come from a different story.

or Palestinian doesn't make the other person wrong,

they're both heroes of their own stories,

If you are prepared to understand, accept,

then you tend to be a better strategic thinker.

Nelson Mandela would probably be at the top of my list

He is not only someone of extraordinary moral courage

and personal conviction, he also is someone that recognizes

for the long future of his country that he needed

and even the desire to meet out immediate justice