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Yesterday, I saw a movie called The Whale. It focuses on a man who compulsively overeats (with a fine performance by Brendan Fraser). Because I have been working on this series of articles, I couldn’t help seeing the man completely at the mercy of his brain’s dopamine addiction…
So far, we have discussed how our mental models work, the strategies based on how habits are formed, and a “know your enemy” article about how lazy our brains are. In this article, we are going to cover the most successful strategies for breaking bad habits, but we must start by…
Welcome to Practical Strategy written by me, Gary Gagliardi, the founder of the Science of Strategy Institute and multiple award-winning author of dozens of books explaining Sun Tzu’s strategy. I am also the founder of an Inc. 500 software company, who spent a couple of decades…
In the previous article in this series, we discussed an example of forming the powerful strategic habit of better listening, and we used it to illustrate methods for developing good habits more generally. In future articles, we will be expanding our mind hacks for forming good…
‘Tis the season to make resolutions. It seems like a fun time to write about habits and how they can work for us and against us. In the last article, we discussed how we improve the progress in our lives by creating mental models and prime ourselves for quick decisions

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Practical Strategy Based on Sun Tzu's Art of War

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Practical Strategy Based on Sun Tzu's Art of War

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