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Matchers tend to wait until others do something nice before they respond in kind. This passive attitude drastically reduces the number of interactions they have.

Strategic thinking, in its purest form, is the process of considering “what could be true.” Strategy is the art of the possible. What new mental model would have to be invented for this to work? What if people moved from the way it is, to a new, different way? What if a new outcome (an outcome we haven’t considered before) was possible?

You can also start to look at coverage. Is there an intervention that will work for only a portion of the population? That can be created only under very specific circumstances? That is available only at certain times?

How do we teach it? By answering these questions and using them in the different prompt templates. The answers to these questions are the variables you’ll use in the prompt templates. Questions to answer: What is the main topic of the content? Who is the ideal reader/target audience/avatar? What is the purpose and tone of the content, written in

It all depends on how well organized my attic is—how I encoded the memory to begin with, what cues are prompting its retrieval now, how methodical and organized my thought process is from start to finish.

Feedback loops are not only crucial for the dynamics of motivation, but also the key element to any learning process. Nothing motivates us more than the experience of becoming better at what we do. And the only chance to improve in something is getting timely and concrete feedback.

4. HAVE YOU MADE IT A GAME?

Finally, some important notes about dualities. It is fundamentally true that any pressure that can be used to make behavior more likely can also be used to make it less likely; in the same way that stronger promoting or weaker inhibiting pressures make a behavior more likely, weaker promoting or stronger inhibiting pressures make it less likely.

What’s different now is the size of the global economy, which increases the sample size of potential crazy things that might happen. When eight billion people interact, the odds of a fraudster, a genius, a terrorist, an idiot, a savant, a jerk, or a visionary moving the needle in a significant way on any given day is nearly guaranteed.