"Each of the following seven approaches provides a strategic lens for how to engineer success for a long-term goal, whether it's personal or professional. They offer different paths and show you where to focus your efforts to achieve the success you want. They fall into three categories: forward-looking (building improvements from your current position), backward-looking (working backward from a desired outcome or from observed success), or responsive (adapting to obstacles and information as they arise)."
"Backcasting involves imagining a hypothetical future and working backward to figure out the present-day requirements to achieve it. For example, Dr. Peter Attia uses this idea when discussing healthspan. If the average 60-year-old has organs that will last 20 more years, and you want to live 20 years longer than average, then at 60 you might aim for the strength, fitness, and health markers of a typical 40-year-old, whose organs would be expected to last the 40 more years you desire."
Seven approaches provide strategic lenses for engineering success toward long-term personal or professional goals, grouped as forward-looking, backward-looking, and responsive. Forward-looking strategies build improvements from the current position and favor incremental gains and fundamentals. Backward-looking strategies start with a desired future outcome or observed success and work backward to define present-day requirements. Responsive strategies adapt to obstacles and new information as they arise. All approaches require an execution layer of systems and habits to convert strategy into measurable achievements. Examples illustrate strategies but do not constitute recommendations. Choosing among approaches depends on goal type, timeframe, uncertainty, and available data.
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