Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform (2016)

The ability to think through problems to the second, third, and nth order—or what we will call second-order thinking for short—is a powerful tool that supercharges your thinking. A lot of extraordinary things in life are the result of things that are first-order negative, second order positive. 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.

Source: fs.blog