Peter Attia, a physician and a renowned expert on human longevity, is a master at distinguishing between strategy and tactics. I asked him what he does when patients come to him looking for the “right answers.” What diet should I follow? Should I take statins if I have high cholesterol? “I generally do not let patients fixate on tactics,” he told me, “and instead try to refocus them on strategy. When people are looking for the ‘right answers,’ they are almost always asking tactical questions. By focusing on the strategy, this allows you to be much more malleable with the tactics.”
