If you keep changing your strategy, you really don’t have any strategy at all!
This is one of the best lessons that I have learnt from my chess experience. But putting it to action is the difficult part.
What is a vision? How is it different from “strategy” ?
“Vision” is a futuristic dream, the gold at the end of the rainbow. A strategy begins with a vision but a vision itself is not a strategy. That being said what is strategy? A plan to reach the vision? I guess so. Strategy is the big picture. A set of long term plans and objectives, a holistic plan to reach a desired outcome. You may not reach the vision, but the vision will show you the right path.
Now, what about tactics?
Tactics is all the actions you take to kick start or implement the strategy. They are like patterns or techniques for effectively executing your strategy.
Well… all this may sound basic, or even right out of the text book if you are quite familiar with the application and practical implication of these terms. But would you still be able to stick to your sense of judgement after taking a blow in life? How about after a dozen blows? How about a year full of blows?
The process of learning is critical. It helps us thrive. Repeated blows, psychological ones or practical defeats are testing points in our journey.
Tenacity is rare. Even the rubber band breaks!
A lot of people lose their grip on reality, their sense of strategy, the vision they have and even their own collective wisdom arising through experience, when faced with extreme distress. One might feel as if a part of the brain disconnected itself, and failed to connect with the rest of the brain. Actions become reactive, tactics would become predictable, the path ahead becomes hazy or confused and so are the decisions. Fear and anxiety starts to invade the mind, putting the person in constant pressure to make some decision, any decision, at least to get out of the situation. The cycle of worry on the other hand, starts to ensnare the person in a delusion of thoughts and self-analysis.
Sounds too fictitious to be true?
Not to the person who has experienced such situations; and such situations are common place in our busy lives. Some even perish. But most come out of it with loads of wisdom and strength.
When a person is under the influence of such extreme distress of any kind, it maybe difficult to stick or focus his attention towards any life strategy. What do you do at such times?
The inference that I like to make is that it isn’t your fault that life is messed up. Realize it. Be easy with yourself.
~The Fish
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