Strategic thinker?

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By way of clearing my mental baggage; I am a little concerned that I may be overdoing the threads i.e making too many new ones that interest me. Hmmm, now am I obsessing or is there a social convention on these matters? Oh well, here goes ...

I always thought I was a real smart strategic thinker but .... In recent times I have become increasingly aware of just how exceedingly AS I am and that maybe I am not strategically capable at all. I have been digging and digging and the more I dig, the more things in my life arise where I realise that my personality is so totally and utterly describable in term of AS. Its quirky, surreal and yet at the same time extremely enlightening and very helpful in daily life. It is like a computer illiterate who learns how to send and recieve emails for the first time.

I have multiple scenarios in my head at any one time. I have a plan for virtually any possible life scenario that I may face in the future (short-, medium- and long-term). Is this chronic obsessiveness and over-thinking or is this the essence of strong strategic thinking skills? I have come to wonder whether the endless scenarios are rational/logical inference that has very little to do with a true ability in the area of srategic thought? Moreover, I don't tend to act strategically; I do things because they interest me or feel good for some reason. Wherever that takes me spawns a whole revision and renewal of scenarios in my head. I am wondering if all these scenarios are support mechanisms to ensure that I don't get caught napping in some situation where I am found out. I have a plan for every eventuality. Its a rhetorical question ; and to answer it, I don't think my scenarios amount to strategic thinking. They are a compensation for being very weak in the area of strategy. In turn, this unearths memories of people who at various points in my life said I needed to think very clearly about what I wanted to do wth my life and then do it. I have been singularly unsuccessful in that regard. Since school-leaving age I have re-invented my career four times to the extent that I have 3 completely separate graduate qualifications and about the same number of unfinished ones including one post-grad qual that I have one subject to complete but just can't excite myself to do.

Fortunately, I appear to have gravitated (or rather tumbled unedifyingly) towards a particular career which I have now pursued for 16 years with a great intensity and focus. In the process, I look back and realise how unaware of my personae I was; how I ever thought I could be a CEO or General Manager (aaargh) ... talk about an elephant in a china shop

All is well that ends well.

Well now; if you have made it thus far down the rambling road of my post, love to read your thoughts and stories on the matter. I find Wrong Planet a great place to bounce stuff like this to ensure that I am getting things right. Its so easy to get completely muddled in these matters.

Well, I know for a fact that I'm NOT a strategic thinker. I am, however, a tactical thinker. I don't care about what or why, HOW is the question that I can answer. At work I stay out of all the strategic discussions and tell them to let me know when they figure out exactly what they want to do and I will then make it happen.

Yes, I am tactically effective in my chosen field. I just do stuff ... the HOW as you state.