Strategy is BIG

“In the book I was promoting I write about the tendency of politicians to use data not to devise thought-through policy and challenge their own opinions, but for confirmation bias. The climate change deniers in the U.S. have this confirmation bias down to a fine, and dangerous, art.

But seriously, who takes the time to think things through – ever? And isn’t honing your talents just the thing to which all Americans aspire? Isn’t it naturally the next step in the truth war discussion seems to be about?

“One of my favorite quotes that I came across in my book research comes from an Irish missionary, Colm O’Connell, who became coach to Kenya’s brilliant athletics squad. “The winner,” he says, “is the loser who evaluates defeat properly.

The winner doesn’t have to evaluate at all.

Source: Alastair Campbell – http://www.politico.eu/article/us-presidential-campaign-is-nuts-campbell-trump-blair-media-spin/ 19 oktober 15