The Backward Law that is Backwards Law

One’s life is about setting goals for oneself and going out and achieving them. But life is not so simple. To restate the same concept a few different ways:

• Sometimes, the way to achieve a certain goal is to focus on achieving a different goal.
• Sometimes, when you want to optimize for one thing (X), it is better to attempt to optimize for something else (Y).
• Sometimes, the way to win a certain game is to focus on winning a different game.