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Guidepost Five: The Power of Strategy

Mastering Strategy
A curated collection of articles, stories, and exercises to deepen your understanding of Guidepost Five: The Power of Strategy
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Lynn Marie Sager
A Whackadoodle Story: Two Near-Disasters—and the Training That Averted Them
Two fires—one sparked by oil, the other by carelessness—both stopped by knowledge and training. A reflection on parenting, preparation, and intentional…
Navigating a Whackadoodle World: Episode 62, The Power of Strategy, or What to do when what you've been doing isn't working as you'd hoped
A Whackadoodle lesson in which my student takes on my mopey-mopey mood and admonishes me for forgetting my own advice regarding strategy, along with a…
A Whackadoodle World Tidbit: How to find your ikigai (The Finale)
For those of you who have been following my student's example for discovering your ikigai, we bring you: Pulling it all together, or what the heck do I…
A Whackadoodle World Tidbit: How to find your ikigai (Part Four)
For those of you who want to follow my student's example and discover your ikigai, here are the prompts for the fourth major ikigai question: What does…
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A Whackadoodle World Tidbit: How to find your ikigai (Part Three)
For those of you who want to follow my student's example and discover your ikigai, here are the prompts for the third major ikigai question: What can…
A Whackadoodle World Tidbit: How to find your ikigai (Part Two)
For those of you who want to follow my student's example and discover your ikigai. You do know that you have an ikigai, don't you?
Guidepost Fourteen: The Power of Indirect Effort (Aka Episode 57)
Three new Whackadoodle words, one family recipe, and a skookum exercise to find your ikigai. You didn't even know that you had an ikigai, did you? (Part…
Guidepost Five: The Power of Strategy (Aka Episode 48)
In which my student and I dissect a strategy known as the Two Santa Claus Theory in order to help her write her economics paper, and are reminded that…
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Navigating a Whackadoodle World: Guidepost Five, or the Power of Strategy
Past and present links to our episodes on Guidepost Five: The Power of Strategy
A Whackadoodle Exercise for Your Creative Mind
In his essay on Self-Reliance, Emerson once wrote, “We recognize in every act of genius, our own disregarded thoughts...”
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Lynn Marie Sager
Navigating a Whackadoodle World: Episode 34, or Why the creative mind is the first step in strategy
A Whackadoodle lesson in which my student demonstrates how much she hates Guidepost Five: The Power of Strategy, but I talk her through it anyway.
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