We offer a practical motivation that is much more individual and probably closer to your personal concerns than most other subjects. You play games of strategy all the time: with your parents, siblings, friends, and enemies, and even with your professors. You have probably acquired a lot of instinctive expertise in playing such games, and we hope you will be able to connect what you have already learned to the discussion that follows. We will build on your experience, systematize it, and develop it to the point where you will be able to improve your strategic skills and use them more methodically. Opportunities for such uses will appear throughout your life; you will go on playing such games with your employers, employees, spouses, children, and even strangers.

我们提供了一个实际的动机，这是更多的个人和可能更接近您的个人关注比大多数其他科目。你一直在玩策略游戏：和你的父母、兄弟姐妹、朋友和敌人，甚至和你的教授。你可能已经在玩这些游戏中获得了很多本能的专业知识，我们希望你能够将你已经学到的知识与下面的讨论联系起来。我们将以您的经验为基础，将其系统化，并将其发展到您能够提高您的战略技能并更系统地使用它们的程度。这样的机会会在你的一生中出现；你会继续和你的雇主、雇员、配偶、孩子甚至陌生人玩这样的游戏。