You should want to win, but winning for the sake of itself makes you a loser.
The only point of the game is to play it from start to exit… but there is a turn of the console and walk away part.
If you don’t choose your game, it’s chosen for you. That’d make you a gamer.
Everything in life is a game. Our careers, relationships, health– to an extent, our views, attitudes, pretty much how we exist.
What makes a player different is in the word itself, they’ve chosen to play. Playing is easy when you enjoy your game.
Enjoying the game is easy, when you choose the right game.
So, to end all this metaphorical talk– here’s how this helped me. As a child, I was possessed by a singular idea– and that was fame. I measured significance by attention from strangers, no love needed, just wanted my name known.
My burning desire was to rise above my peers.
This was before social media was THIS prevalent in our careers, where an audience today can literally be the reason whatever you touch turns to gold.
I wanted fame for the sake of, “fill my empty..”
But anywho, after some accidental personal growth– I ended up losing taste for it. Since I now think it would all but destroy me, I’ve pivoted onto a different path.
This new game, is far more enjoyable because it’s far more closely related to who I am.
A lot of us feel a restlessness when we’re alone, that comes from disconnection in some area of life. My disconnection was I wanted to commit myself to a skill, a craft, a career– that fit my nature.
Of course, I didn’t know that back then.
So I chased random ideas to get famous, until I crashed and burned then learned.
Life is single player.
You have to feel good about yourself, especially when you’re alone with yourself. That can’t be faked.
For me, that came from the game I’m in now. Now I’m a player.
How do you become a player if you hate your current game? Switching games is the obvious answer but what if you can’t at the moment or need to buy time….
… as hard as it is, you have to play with what you have.
That’s how you birth opportunities from nothing.
So for today, forget your worries— play.
#FoolForward
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