The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World

We’re always rushing, trying to get more done and work more efficiently, but still there’s never enough time. In this endless bustle, it’s easy to lose sight of your own dreams. And to get closer to your personal goals, you don’t need a one-time mobilization—you need a thoughtful strategy for years ahead.

Dory Clark, professor at Duke University, explains how to escape the mode of constant urgency and start building a life and career that produce tangible, lasting results. The author offers the concept of “long thinking”: small, regular actions that today seem almost invisible eventually add up to a powerful effect.

Based on her experience and examples of successful professionals, Clark shows how to shift to a strategic perspective, develop patience, act with purpose, and stop living only from “deadline to deadline.”