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Are You Playing to Play, or Playing to Win?
Just because you’re winning a game doesn’t mean it’s a good game.
Seth Godin • The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
I run slowly, I always have. I run for pleasure, even though I don’t like it. I run because it’s an easy way to get exercise with little time and no equipment. I run because it’s efficient, but I do it slowly, and I do it for fun, but I don’t like it. Sometimes people make no sense.
My problem is: when someone passes me, I always feel beaten. Even ... See more
My problem is: when someone passes me, I always feel beaten. Even ... See more
Rachel Katz • The Dancing Tortoise
There are those who seek power by changing the game – by lowering the basketball hoops in order to better shoot a basket – but in ‘leveling the playing field’ they only succeed in changing the nature of the competition to better suit their individual abilities, neither improving the game nor themselves. The temporary change of rules only serves the
... See moreRollo Tomassi • The Rational Male
Writing online is a game. Publishing, and becoming a best-selling author, is a game. Content writing is a game. Ghostwriting is a game. Consulting and advising companies on their messaging, and writing a fiction series that becomes a movie that then becomes a line of action figures co-owned by Disney, these are all games. Anyone can play the game.
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