Winning vs. Losing
But even if I had a word like it, the nerd never disturbed
It's absurd but I'm looking 'round and ain't nobody verse me
I don't think a mothafucka's ever tried to hurt me
Everyone I see has been supportive on this journey
Like where my haters at? I'm thirsty (Uh)
I just really wanna talk my shit, be like, "Y'all ain't shit"
But y'all ain't shit, like, y'... See more
It's absurd but I'm looking 'round and ain't nobody verse me
I don't think a mothafucka's ever tried to hurt me
Everyone I see has been supportive on this journey
Like where my haters at? I'm thirsty (Uh)
I just really wanna talk my shit, be like, "Y'all ain't shit"
But y'all ain't shit, like, y'... See more
LilDicky – The Antagonist
Where are the haters at?
Becase this freedom comes at a cost - in fact you'll probably need to die a little death.
It does get easier
The cost of freedom
You can't win as much money if you sit at a table with small blinds. You'll get cleaned out if you sit at a table with players much better than you. To have the best result, you need to find a table where the stakes are high enough to be worth playing and where you have a chance of winning against the other players.
Infinite Play • Choose Your Table Wisely
Choose the game you are playing if you want to win
Finite games are won with intensity. Infinite games are won with consistency.
-Shane Parrish
long vs short term winning
One of my favorite quotes from Bobby Knight is: "The key is not the will to win...everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important" Everybody has the will to win. People don't have the will to practice.
Bill Gurley • "Runnin' Down a Dream: How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love"
will to practice > the will to win
To me, the real winners are the ones who step out of the game entirely, who don't even play the game, who rise above it. Those are the people who have such internal mental and self-control and self-awareness, they need nothing from anybody else.
Eric Jorgenson • Almanack of Naval Ravikant
The only winning move is not to play
Second, being wrong hurts us more than being right feels good. We know from Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky’s work on loss aversion, part of prospect theory (which won Kahneman the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002), that losses in general feel about two times as bad as wins feel good. So winning $100 at blackjack feels as good to us as losing $50
... See moreAnnie Duke • Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
It is never about winning. It is never about losing. It is only about contributing. It is only about learning.
Brian Collins • 101 Design Rules
“The secret to winning is learning how to lose.
That is, learning to bounce back from failure and disappointment—undeterred—and continuing to steadily march toward your potential.
Your response to failure determines your capacity for success.”
That is, learning to bounce back from failure and disappointment—undeterred—and continuing to steadily march toward your potential.
Your response to failure determines your capacity for success.”
3-2-1: On the Best Exercise, the Secret to Winning, and Dealing With Disappointment | James Clear
Now that I've won a slam, I know something very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last long as the bad. Not even close.
Andre Agassi • Open: An Autobiography
The pain of losing > the joy of winning