Choose Your Own Games To Play
Choose Your Own Games To Play
There are many games and, more specifically, many good games... The world allows for many ways of Being. If you don’t succeed at one, you can try another. You can pick something better matched to your unique mix of strengths, weaknesses and situation. Furthermore, if changing games does not work, you can invent a new one.
It’s also unlikely that you’re playing only one game... You might consider judging your success across all the games you play... You might object: I should be winning at everything! But winning at everything might only mean that you’re not doing anything new or difficult. You might be winning but you’re not growing, and growing might be the most important form of winning. Should victory in the present always take precedence over trajectory across time?
Everyone is unique in their own way and has a set of games that are suited to their uniqueness. Choose a unique niche suited to your strengths that you can dominate. Focus on what you can control, and choose an appropriate frame for judging yourself.
The secret to maximizing your odds of success is to choose the right field of competition... Play a game that favours your strengths. If you can’t find a game that favours you, create one.
References
12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
Atomic Habits by James Clear