long game
Delayed gratification pursuit
A long game is a strategy focused on eventual rather than immediate results.
The phrase comes from golf, where long game refers to shots covering significant distance, but the figurative sense dominates: She's playing the long game with her career.
To play the long game is to accept short-term costs or delays for greater future payoffs.
Calm during delays
- perseveranceSustained resolve despite obstacles
- foresightAbility to anticipate futures
- planningArranging for future events
- enduranceSustained effort capacity
delayed gratification · investment · positioning · vision · calculated risk · groundwork · foundation · compounding
patience
Calm during delays
- perseveranceSustained resolve despite obstacles
- foresightAbility to anticipate futures
- planningArranging for future events
endurance · delayed gratification · investment · positioning · vision · calculated risk · groundwork · foundation · compounding · setup
- strategystrategy, grand strategy, tactics, tactic, tactical
- table tennispaddle, ball, serve, net, table
- long-term thinkingforesight, planning, strategy, vision, future
- chesscheck, pawns, knights, rooks, pawn
- delaysdelays, delay, delayed, postponement, postpone
- strategy tacticsplanning, scheming, positioning, timing, bluffing
long gameshort game
Close-range golf strokes
short-term thinking · instant gratification · quick fix · short-termism · get-rich-quick
long gameimprovisation
Spontaneous, unplanned creation
winging it · flying by the seat of your pants · ad hoc · playing it by ear · knee-jerk reaction
long gamemyopia
Blurry distance vision
tunnel vision · shortsightedness · nearsightedness · band-aid solution · stopgap
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