Min maxing is a game theory strategy (mathematics). Coincidentally useful in games and other competitions.
It involves a reward and working your resources to max out your winnings while minimising the opponents’. The min max approach to a genie wish that gives you a thousand dollars but someone close to you you hate a million is to not take the wish.
But I think here who you were responding to is talking about the colloquial term: doctors focused on becoming (good?) doctors in detriment of every other skill.
I personally find we in the sciences often disregard social skills too far, academically and at times professionally.
It’s actually more like choosing the strategy with the relatively best worst-case scenario, in general. In zero-sum games it turns into what you’re describing.
Doctors are min-maxers. It’s just that simple.
That’s how they become doctors in the first place. I teach 30 premeds per semester
Yes, that’s what I implied.
What’s that? My friend’s dog is asking
Min maxing is a game theory strategy (mathematics). Coincidentally useful in games and other competitions. It involves a reward and working your resources to max out your winnings while minimising the opponents’. The min max approach to a genie wish that gives you a thousand dollars but someone close to you you hate a million is to not take the wish.
But I think here who you were responding to is talking about the colloquial term: doctors focused on becoming (good?) doctors in detriment of every other skill. I personally find we in the sciences often disregard social skills too far, academically and at times professionally.
Min maxing is a legit academic topic? Awesome. I learned what it is from years of being sweaty at killing internet dragons
[Wiki article](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimax#:~:text=Minimax (sometimes Minmax%2C MM or,to maximize the minimum gain.) is pretty good at talking about it, yeah.
It’s actually more like choosing the strategy with the relatively best worst-case scenario, in general. In zero-sum games it turns into what you’re describing.
But either way, yeah, that’s not what OP means.