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If Life is a game, it’s worth remembering no strategy saves you from Game Over. It only enhances how you get there and delays it. There are no save points, no n

If Life is a game, it’s worth remembering no strategy saves you from Game Over. It only enhances how you get there and delays it. There are no save points, no new lives. You can change strategy late, but some decisions are irreversible and you need to make sure you want the game to play out that way before you commit.

tarotuser 4y ago
Every decision is irreversible. Some decisions you can revisit and choose the other, later.
- PaulRobinson 4y ago
  Ending your life isn’t a reversible decision. Taking a drug that permanently damages your heart, lungs or even liver, often isn’t. Dangerous sports need risk analysis, and failing to do that increases the chance of an irreversible result. Having kids is not reversible - if you change your mind six months in, you don’t get the same outcomes for the rest of your life as if you had never had them in the first place. It’s not consequence-free, whatever route you take from there. You might be ok with downsides and risks associated with a decision when you make, but it doesn’t mean the decision is reversible. Some decisions (“should I move my family to a foreign country?”), have greater consequences and less reversibility than others (“shall I have an extra slice of toast this morning?”). I also want to stress something I wish I’d grasped when I was younger: when you’re 25 you get to experiment more with the big stuff than you do when you’re 35 or 45. And that time passes fast. At 45 you will not have the same degrees of consequence-free reversible decision making you had when you were 25. But there are still decisions you make at 25 that will stick with you forever, no matter what. Choose your friends and lifestyle carefully.
  - tarotuser 4y ago
    I think you misread a word. I said that every decision is irreversible, not reversible. Every last one. No exceptions. Some things can be reviewed and done again, but again, those retries are also irreversible. Just that most choices we do, even though being irreversible, are of little consequence. Like, there's not much impact between eating fried chicken vs pizza, or deciding between 2 movies. But... How does one unwatch a movie, or uneat pizza? Simply put, we can't. Hence irreversible. Note that decide's root is -cide ,or kill. To decide is to kill a certain future or class of futures. That's a very interesting, yet often used term without realizing its root is of death.
postalrat 4y ago
Promising to both enhance and delay seems a bit much. One is enough.
- PaulRobinson 4y ago
  Living a fulfilling life does not require you to take actions that shorten it. Party every night if you want to, but you’ll find out eventually that’s a short term enhancement that isn’t a sound long term life enhancer or lengthener. The best strategies - the really great ones - have been confirmed over millennia as doing both.

tarotuser 4y ago

Every decision is irreversible. Some decisions you can revisit and choose the other, later.

PaulRobinson 4y ago
Ending your life isn’t a reversible decision. Taking a drug that permanently damages your heart, lungs or even liver, often isn’t. Dangerous sports need risk analysis, and failing to do that increases the chance of an irreversible result. Having kids is not reversible - if you change your mind six months in, you don’t get the same outcomes for the rest of your life as if you had never had them in the first place. It’s not consequence-free, whatever route you take from there. You might be ok with downsides and risks associated with a decision when you make, but it doesn’t mean the decision is reversible. Some decisions (“should I move my family to a foreign country?”), have greater consequences and less reversibility than others (“shall I have an extra slice of toast this morning?”). I also want to stress something I wish I’d grasped when I was younger: when you’re 25 you get to experiment more with the big stuff than you do when you’re 35 or 45. And that time passes fast. At 45 you will not have the same degrees of consequence-free reversible decision making you had when you were 25. But there are still decisions you make at 25 that will stick with you forever, no matter what. Choose your friends and lifestyle carefully.
- tarotuser 4y ago
  I think you misread a word. I said that every decision is irreversible, not reversible. Every last one. No exceptions. Some things can be reviewed and done again, but again, those retries are also irreversible. Just that most choices we do, even though being irreversible, are of little consequence. Like, there's not much impact between eating fried chicken vs pizza, or deciding between 2 movies. But... How does one unwatch a movie, or uneat pizza? Simply put, we can't. Hence irreversible. Note that decide's root is -cide ,or kill. To decide is to kill a certain future or class of futures. That's a very interesting, yet often used term without realizing its root is of death.

postalrat 4y ago

Promising to both enhance and delay seems a bit much. One is enough.

PaulRobinson 4y ago
Living a fulfilling life does not require you to take actions that shorten it. Party every night if you want to, but you’ll find out eventually that’s a short term enhancement that isn’t a sound long term life enhancer or lengthener. The best strategies - the really great ones - have been confirmed over millennia as doing both.