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📫 Strategy & Tactics – Weekend Words #063

📫 Strategy & Tactics – Weekend Words #063

Powerful reminders for a smarter weekend

December 06, 2025

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Happy Saturday. Your weekend words are: strategy and tactics.

“Take another look at the Sun Tzu quote that opens this chapter: ‘Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.’ He was talking about war, but it applies here as well. To achieve our objectives, we first need to have a strategy: an overall approach, a conceptual scaffolding or mental model that is informed by science, is tailored to our goals, and gives us options.”

—Peter Attia, MD, Outlive

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“All things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.”

—Elizabeth Edwards, Resilience: The New Afterword

More from the author in our word of the week: Resilience

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