Anna's subskill list from "Humans Are Not Automatically Strategic":

• Ask ourselves what we’re trying to achieve;
• Ask ourselves how we could tell if we achieved it (“what does it look like to be a good comedian?”) and how we can track progress;
• Find ourselves strongly, intrinsically curious about information that would help us achieve our goal;
• Gather that information (e.g., by asking as how folks commonly achieve our goal, or similar goals, or by tallying which strategies have and haven’t worked for us in the past);
• Systematically test many different conjectures for how to achieve the goals, including methods that aren’t habitual for us, while tracking which ones do and don’t work;
• Focus most of the energy that isn’t going into systematic exploration, on the methods that work best;
• Make sure that our "goal" is really our goal, that we coherently want it and are not constrained by fears or by uncertainty as to whether it is worth the effort, and that we have thought through any questions and decisions in advance so they won't continually sap our energies;
• Use environmental cues and social contexts to bolster our motivation, so we can keep working effectively in the face of intermittent frustrations, or temptations based in hyperbolic discounting.