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This sounds like obvious and poor advice to me. Summary of all those words could be: Don't challenge yourself, only do things that you already find easy becaus
by ghusto 3y ago
This sounds like obvious and poor advice to me.
Summary of all those words could be: Don't challenge yourself, only do things that you already find easy because winning is the most important thing.
Of course, this depends on your definition of winning. If "winning" is beating other people at something you find easier than them, I'd like to challenge that definition.
- Lio 3y ago> I'd like to challenge that definition. OK, what's stopping you? :D What's your alternative? I would summarise the author's advice differently as, "keep looking for niches that suit you and don't be afraid to move on if your existing niche disappears" or even simpler "pick your battles". Put like that I don't see it as terrible advice even if I don't particularly follow it myself.
- ghusto 3y agoHeh, yeah okay fair enough. So to re-itterate definition I'm challenging: "Winning means beating other people at something you find easier than them". I have two issues with it: The first keeps in the spirit of "winning" in terms of coming out on top in a competition, and it's this; how can you say you've won, if there was no real competition? The picture on the page where a guy's holding a basketball over the heads of children is apt. If you score more points against those children in a game of basketball, have you won a game of basketball? The second gets a bit philosophical and calls into question the whole meaning of "winning" anything in life at all. I don't think winning == being successful in business or making money. If you've made money by screwing someone over, you have lost at life.
- strken 3y agoIt's pretty good investment advice. I don't think it was meant to be general life advice.