In Tetris, you’re only playing against time and the never-ending flow of pieces from top to bottom. The mindset is internally focused — you are challenging yourself to correctly manipulate a random stream of inputs into an orderly configuration. There’s no final boss. No blame to assign.The real game of life is completely internal. There really are no big, bad enemies who exist to make you suffer. There is no absolute right or wrong move that a certain opponent can punish. And your score can increase to infinity if you just push yourself harder.&nbsp;

In life, your only opponent is yourself

Some games get harder the longer you play, including chess. Positions get more complicated, opponents become more challenging, the stakes increase. You have a public rating, and thus more to lose when you play the same opponents.Not Tetris. The game remains the same from Piece One until you run out of space on the screen. The only thing that changes is the speed.In Tetris, more often than not, we challenge ourselves. We are not content with simply making one row at a time. We push ourselves to get a Tetris — four rows simultaneously. It’s the name of the game.

In life, things don’t get harder — they just get faster

Chess comes with a set of prescriptions and best practices. 1. e4 is considered a strong opening move for white. 1. h3 is not. That’s because chess is a closed system. There are no random constraints, no dumb luck. The pieces always move the same, and the starting position is always identical.Tetris? You only know what the next piece is. You play for the present moment, trying to construct the best possible configuration of pieces, knowing that it is impossible to predict the situation even two pieces from now. You don’t get fooled into thinking you can control the future.

In life, you can’t control the board

In chess, you’ll get to see your opponent tip over his king in resignation. You’ll see the final tournament scores posted. You’ll feel the satisfaction of victory — unless, one day, you don’t.

In life, no one tells you when you’ve won

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Your Life Is Tetris. Stop Playing It Like Chess.

Saying basic income is socialism is as absurd as saying money is socialism. It’s money. It’s all it is. What do people do with the money? They use it in markets. In other words, basic income is fuel for markets.&nbsp;Markets are a wonderful invention that serves to calculate via a massively distributed computer comprised of people, what goods and services should be made, using what, going where, by whom, of what quantity, etc. It’s an incredible act of decentralization built upon supply and demand signaling.

Basic income is fuel for markets

When someone has money and wants to buy something, that is a demand signal. Businesses meet this signal with supply. Basically, buying is like voting.&nbsp;We vote on what we want using money as our ballots, and we do this over and over and over again, every day. Now imagine someone has no money in a system built around markets. How do they vote? They can’t. The market thus confuses this lack of a vote as a “no” vote. This means markets containing people who don’t have enough money to signal their demand can’t function properly.

Buying is like voting

First, saying basic income is socialism is as absurd as saying money is socialism. It’s money. It’s all it is. What do people do with money? They use it in markets. In other words, basic income is…

If You Think Basic Income is “Free Money” or Socialism, Think Again

If you're job hunting and not being invited to as many interviews as you'd like, it may be time for a resume update.Many applicants inadvertently sabotage themselves by submitting resumes that come across as sloppy and unprofessional. <ul><li>Stand out from the pack by learning how to avoid the most common resume mistakes. </li><li>Don’t forget to proofread!</li></ul>

Simple Mistakes Can Sabotage Your Job Hunt

Your resume doesn't need to include every job you've ever held or your hobbies.<ul><li>Be respectful of your potential employer's time and keep it short and sweet.</li><li>If you’re tight on space eliminate positions that were temporary, part-time, and/or irrelevant to the type of work you are seeking.</li><li>As an experienced worker, keep in mind you only need to include 10 to 15 years of work history on your resume. The primary focus should be on your recent accomplishments.</li></ul>

Including Your Life Story

A resume that just lists tasks and responsibilities is a real turn-off. You need to provide specific details about your achievements. Hiring mangers love to see numbers:<ul><li>“I supervised a team of five full-time and two part-time employees while overseeing a yearly budget of $275,000” is more impressive than “I managed the marketing department.”</li><li>“I increased the company’s Facebook likes by 75% in six months” is sure to attract more attention than “I worked to increase customer engagement via social media.”</li></ul>

Being Too Vague

Many companies today use Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) to quickly sort through resumes. These software programs are designed to pick out keywords that are relevant to the position.<ul><li>If you don't use the right keywords, your resume will never make it to the hiring manager's desk.</li><li>Search position listings and the LinkedIn profiles of professionals in your industry to see what words and phrases are used the most, then incorporate these into your resume.</li></ul>

Forgetting Keywords

It's not uncommon for an employer to receive 100 or more resumes for one position. Make sure your resume looks appealing:<ul><li>Choose a readable 10 to 12 point font such as Garamond, Calibri, Cambria, Helvetica, or Georgia.</li><li>Use bullets to draw attention to your accomplishments.</li><li>Leave white space between positions to avoid a cluttered look.</li><li>Highlight headers with a larger or bolder font.</li><li>For a more modern look try different colors, bar charts, or icons: but don’t overdo it.</li></ul>

Ignoring Visual Appeal

Presenting your background is a positive light is a great idea, but you still need to be truthful.<ul><li>Embellishing your qualifications is a fireable offense, even if the deception is discovered long after you were formally offered the position.</li><li>Feel free to highlight transferable soft skills such as communication, leadership, and organization, but don't invent proficiency in a foreign language or make up a position to camouflage a year-long gap in your work history.</li></ul>

Lying

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5 Common Resume Mistakes

Being busy and being successful are not one in the same. But, sooner or later, all of us have to ask ourselves what our mission is — is it to be the busiest or is it to make the most impact?We’ve grown to subconsciously measure a person’s worth based off how many hours they work, how much is on their plate and put simply — whether or not they are running around like a chicken with their head cut off.

All of us have a problem with busyness

Making time in your life to do nothing can be challenging — especially during the workweek where we are constantly pummeled and bombarded with meetings, notifications, and an ever-growing list of tasks.Give your brain space to think by stepping away from the daily grind and doing nothing. Your mind will have time to stumble upon new ideas and further process old ones.

The power of doing nothing at all

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One of the reasons it’s so easy to slip into habitually criticizing others is that it makes us feel good:&nbsp;<ul><li>When you point out to yourself that someone else is dumb, you’re also implying that you’re smart. And that feels good.&nbsp;</li><li>When you criticize someone else for being naive, what you’re really doing is telling yourself that you’re sophisticated. And that feels good.&nbsp;</li><li>When you silently chuckle to yourself about how terrible someone’s fashion sense is, you’re telling yourself how refined your own taste is.</li></ul>

Criticizing Others

Chronic ruminators develop the habit of constantly replaying past mistakes. No amount of rumination or analysis of your past mistakes will change what happened.&nbsp;If you want to move on with your life instead of staying stuck in the past, you must accept the past for what it is. When in doubt, take action in the present instead of dwelling on the past. Do something useful, right now, now matter how small, and resist the temptation to replay yet another scene from your past.

Ruminating on the Past

Unrealistic expectations are a misguided attempt to control other people.Just like ruminating is an attempt to control the past and how we feel about it, maintaining unrealistic expectations is usually a subtle attempt to control other people.

Maintaining Unrealistic Expectations

Worrying about the future means living in denial about the fundamentally uncertain nature of life.Chronic worriers live under the illusion that thinking is always problem-solving and that planning always leads to greater levels of preparedness. But neither of those are true:<ul><li>Just because you’re thinking about a problem doesn’t mean you’re thinking about it productively.</li><li>And just because you’re planning — running through countless hypothetical future scenarios — doesn’t mean you’re any better equipped to handle them. Often, you’re just making yourself feel more prepared.</li></ul>

Worrying About the Future

“Criticism of others is a form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.”

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”

“To think too much is a disease.”

“He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.”

Most people think about emotional intelligence as a skill, something you can build and train with practice. And while this is partly true, there’s a deeper truth about emotional intelligence that…