You can’t lose if you never stop

Think about every single positive thing in your life for a second. 

Visualize it.

Now think about how fast and easy it would be to destroy all of it today.

One decision could destroy your life and the lives of everyone you care about.

Now think about what success means to you.

Visualize yourself living the most successful life possible.

You could decide to build that life starting from today.

One decision right now that would improve your life indefinitely. 

The only difference to the negative version of this decision game I’ve mentioned before is that the outcome of this decision, the positive one, will be delayed.

Whether you destroy or build your life, both decisions can be made right now.

But it’s in the nature of nature that positive things need longer to manifest.

You could for example decide to go to the gym 5 days a week for the next year. 

This decision could be made right now. 

But the outcome – a healthy & aesthetic body, will take time to appear in reality.

Whereas if you decided to kill your family with a machine gun and then commit suicide, the outcome would be immediate.

Most people are unsuccessful because of this decision concept I just described.

They are unable to make positive decisions and stick to them.

I asked you what you think a successful life would look like because there’s no objective answer.

You might have a vague idea of what success means.

Maybe it’s building a happy family. Maybe it’s becoming rich. Maybe it’s traveling the world. 

Whatever it is, it’s subjective.

But even when respecting the fact that every individual has a different perception of success, it’s still the case that most people are unsuccessful.

And that’s not because they achieved or didn’t achieve a certain thing.

It’s because of their attitude.

Most people suck

Ok, I’m sorry if I upset you but this is simply true.

Think about it for a second, please.

Most human beings are vital, optimistic, and enthusiastic about life as children, adolescents, and young adults.

But even older people sometimes regain this positive mindset and want to become successful.

So what happens is that a human starts a thing – a project that shall manifest success (whatever success is), and makes a positive decision by that.

The decision then provides a quick dopamine rush & gets the human to take action. 

A certain amount of time is then invested into building the success-project. 

But…

No immediate results.

People make decisions, build a project for one month, don’t get positive outcomes, and then quit.

After all, all they have received from making the decision is the pain of work, which very quickly gets them to associate the success-project with negative emotions.

And that whole scenario is why most people suck & never achieve success.

To recap: 

1. positive vision of the future 

2. decision to build vision 

3. no immediate success 

4. quitting

This cycle is how most people live their lives.

How to end the cycle

Ending this cycle is simple.

Just don’t quit.

See, the problem that most people face is that they fucking quit.

Dudes say: “I started a business but I failed.”

Well, the truth is that this dude didn’t actually fail. He just stopped building a business.

He accepted defeat and decided that he didn’t want to become rich.

He makes this decision every day. 

A loser is someone who decides that he doesn’t want to be successful.

What is a winner then?

In the strictest, most mathematical perspective, it’s the individual who has achieved a goal.

But there’s a problem with this perspective because it demotivates almost everyone to build a successful life.

The ceiling to the level of positivity a human can experience is indefinite.

We don’t know if there even is a limit.

Since we’re limited beings with limited knowledge, we can’t know where the pinnacle of success is, whether objectively or subjectively. 

There’s no clear answer and there will never be.

All answers are assumptions and beliefs.

This very letter is nothing but an assumption that emerged out of my desire to explain what true success is all about, using as much logic as possible.

But you have to doubt every single sentence you read from me.

I simply can’t know if I know.

Play infinite games

Let me tell you a bit about games.

There are finite games and there are infinite games.

A finite game would be pursuing money, playing board games, or even our lives in general. 

We will die one day, so participating in life is a finite game. We have rules (physics), and there are different levels of competency, happiness, status, etc.

I think the solution to living a successful life isn’t to achieve a certain thing.

I think your success as a life is directly correlated to how good you are at playing infinite games.

Infinite games are games that can’t be won and are characterized by goals that can’t be achieved.

Examples of infinite games are: raising your children, solving all problems in the world, knowing the truth about everything, being healthy, being happy, etc.

These are things that have no destination.

You can’t raise your children perfectly, but you can raise them as well as possible.

You can’t solve all the problems in the world, but you can solve as many as possible.

You can’t know the truth about everything, but you can learn as much as possible.

You can’t be ultimately healthy, but you can have the most healthy lifestyle possible.

You can’t be infinitely happy all the time, but you can build your life in a way so that happiness is maximized to the fullest.

I think you get the point.

After the finite game of life has ended, your infinite games will still be running.

Children have children. Impact radiates. 

But even in your very own lifetime, you don’t know the ceiling to how positive your life can become.

You have to experiment.

And that is what winning is all about in my opinion.

A winner is someone who consistently decides to play life as well as possible.

Every single day.

That’s why you can’t lose if you never quit.

PLAY INFINITE GAMES

If you don’t, you will quit life at some point.

The life of 99% of humanity is proof of that.

How could you lose if you decided to never stop building the best possible life?

Again: you only lose when you quit.

That’s how infinite games work.

You can’t win them, and there are no clear rules.

The closest we get to winning them is simply playing as hardcore as possible.

I also genuinely believe that someone who plays infinite games like a maniac surpasses most of humanity in finite games like; health and wealth for example.

Just don’t quit.

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