# Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform

<https://fs.blog/2016/04/second-order-thinking/>

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## What Jamie wrote

In general, think through decisions to the longer impact.

> A lot of extraordinary things in life are the result of things that are first-order negative, second order positive. So just because things look like they have no immediate payoff, doesn’t mean that’s the case. All it means is that you’ll have less competition if the second and third order consequences are positive because everyone who thinks at the first order won’t think things through.


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## Facts

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- [WT101: Weekly Thing #101 / Apr 13, 2019](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/101/), Notable Links 📌

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