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Life Is Math-Not Magic - Darius Foroux
“Most of our failures are in races for which others enter us. Most of our success comes from races we ourselves want to enter.”
Richard Koch
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I like James Carse's distinction between finite and infinite games. A finite game, like chess, is one that you play for awhile and when somebody wins, you stop. An infinite game, like life, is one where the goal is to be able to keep playing. To win at life means to keep living.
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Rethinking Success
We liken success to sports, exams or battles that have winners and losers, and that have an end. However, success means having the stamina to keep going.
There might be many peop...
Patience and Idleness
The kind of patience that leads to success is not the same as waiting. Waiting has no benefits. Investing time doesn't do anything on its own.
The kind of patience needed for success is an active, self-doubting kind of patience. It's putting in enormous amounts of work, reviewing the work, questioning if it was the right work, then making adjustments and trying again.
Build-Up and Breakthroughs
Success tends to accrue in two different modes:
- Build up: It is the steady accumulation of improvements that you can see month after month, that will eventually help you reach your destination.
- Breakthroughs: It requires a lot of effort with no visible benefits, but every once in a while, there's an insight that unlocks your potential.
You don't want to admit it, but it's true. It's that one undeniable fact you can't escape. Right up there with death and taxes. You need video games. Oh sure, you can deny. Pretend that it's not true. But you do. Because video games give us the best life lessons.
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Real Life Lessons From Videogames
- Difficulty increases as you progress.
- If there are no obstacles you’re going in the wrong direction.
- Look for secrets and do some side quests to get ...
Everyone would like that - it's easy to like that. If I ask you, "What do you want out of life?" and you say something like, "I want to be happy and have a great family and a job I like," it's so ubiquitous that it doesn't even mean anything.
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Happiness and struggle
Consider the question: What are you willing to struggle for? Because that seems to be a greater determinant of how our lives turn out. Happiness requires struggle. The positive is the side...