How to Win the Game
They raced ahead and made it further up the mountain. But when they looked back, all they saw was the trail of destruction they left in their wake to get there. The path was lined with the skeletons of all those they climbed over. At that moment they longed to go back and try again, but it was too late. Their time had been spent. I didn't reach the peak of the mountain they climbed. I found a detour, and followed it. Suddenly I came to a quiet opening that looked out over a peaceful valley. Creatures surrounded me and chirped away, and the wind whistled
Don’t predict the rain – have the wedding inside
Google is good at predicting the weather for the next hour. It is ok at predicting the weather for the next eight hours. It is touch-and-go when it comes to predicting tomorrow's weather. Google sucks at predicting the weather one week from now. Simple, Complicated, Complex A wheel is a simple system. Infants know how a wheel works. Planes are complicated systems. Few of us know the ins and outs of how planes work, but each subsystem of the plane is simple, like the wheel. The complicated system is just a whole heap of simple systems stitched together. But they are knowable. The weather is a complex, if
The One Who Is Most Interested Is The One Who Wins
Benjamin Franklin Once Said
The Train Station
Everyone wants it to be like a Train Station. They want to come in in a mob, punch a ticket, and then go on through. To every problem, they want a train ticket solution. The Afterlife. The train to the afterlife. To catch it, do you simply have to show up to your temple once a week? Does your hypocrisy outside the temple not matter? Do you believe that if you show up, hold out your ticket, you get to go onboard? Can you catch the train instead of living by true values? Success. The train to success. Do you just show up in the crowd with all the others,
We Live In Two Worlds; The Inner And The Outer
We live, each of us, in two worlds. One is visible, the other is invisible. One is determined only by others, the other is determined only by us. One is the focus of the West, the other is the focus of the East. Both are important. Both are different. And they are completely unrelated from one another. Success in one rarely relates to success in the other. Some people thrive in one but struggle in the other. Heath Ledger. Robin Williams. Michael Jackson. Amy Winehouse. The list of celebrities who were known to be troubled or took their own lives is countless. “But they had it all”
Status Games
We all play games. We can choose the games but choosing not to play games itself is not an option. If you believe you are an exception, this simply means that you are not aware of the games you are playing. Being aware of the games you’re playing always boosts your odds of 1) winning or 2) choosing better games. Today we’ll be discussing one of the most common and ensnaring forms of games in our culture. Status Games People often say “I don’t care about money” and “I’m not doing it for the money”. We scrutinise people for the pursuit and