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 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.
Is that some king of new trend like nft?
It’s actually more like choosing the strategy with the relatively best worst-case scenario, in general. In zero-sum games it turns into that.
But either way, yeah, that’s not what OP means.