Tactic 01
Mohnish Pabrai, My First Million
Clone the Best. Stop Trying to Be Original.
The play
Study the record of someone whose approach already matches how you think and operate.
Mohnish Pabrai says
He accidentally heard about Warren Buffett in the mid 90s and it was a big aha moment, coming right as the first biographies on him had come out. When he read about how Buffett was investing, he realized all those models were the same models an entrepreneur uses, exactly what he had been saying.
Try this
Pick one person whose public record (books, letters, interviews) matches what you want to build, and study it closely before acting.