We can all be winning if we set our mind to accomplish great goals. Otherwise you wont win. I will win, as my goals are great and I win and I win and I win and I win. Like Trump. But you dont win because youre not, like, Trump. Isnt it so?
Well, listen to this.
You, too, can be winning.
If you set aside your false beliefs.
What beliefs are false, and which are true?
In essence, the true ones are the ones that make you win.
The fase ones are the ones that cause you to lose.
This doesnt mean follow evil and the money. That will cause you to fail.
It means find your passion.
Indeed it is a mindset, something akin to a room full of salesmen with a poster on the wall saying, sell,sell,sell. Or āmoving forwardsā.
Ultimately of course nobody wins, we all just die, and everything eventually gets forgotten, the sun will go supernova etc. I donāt want to sound so negative, but I rather hope there is more to this world than it being a race.
Letās say youāre trapped in a dungeon and you see absolutely no way of getting out of it. How do you win with your āmindsetā in such a situation?
K: the Greek and Roman philosophy of Stoicism is a philosophy that
allows one to cope with, not necessarily āwinā but cope with such
conditions as being in a dungeon until deathā¦Mindsets are not necessarily
about winning but about dealing with situationsā¦Winning is one such
possibility but other possibilities do existsā¦and to exist in every
single situation we find ourselves inā¦ perhaps winning in such a Dungeon
situation is about simply livingā¦ not giving up and dying, but it is simply
enough to last, to survive, until surviving is no longer possibleā¦
you donāt need hope, just to survive until death comesā¦
winning is simply living as long as possibleā¦ that can be considered
āwinningā if that is your mindsetā¦
Win/loss can perhaps be substituted with success/failure.
If so, the implications are following.
Success/failure is relative to goal.
Success = goal achieved.
Failure = goal not achieved.
So if your goal is to get out of the dungeon, and thatās impossible, there is nothing you can do to make it happen.
On the other hand, if your goal is to simply survive in the dungeon, and make sure your emotions are in check, then thatās a different thing. You may or may not be successful at this. No premise restricts this.
Either way success is not unconditional.
You can do something, achieve some goal, insofar you can do it. If you canāt, and itās possible that you canāt, I am sorry, nothing can help you then.
Thats a losing proposition.
Didnt you read the OP ?
How would a winning guy end up in a dungeon. That, firstā¦ then. How does a winning guy inside of a dungeon succumb to despair?
There is no dungeon without an exit.
Maybe he was born in that dungeon. What then? Would that mean that his ancestors had the wrong (i.e. losing) mindset?
And I am not speaking of a situation in which a man succumbs to despair. You can be very tenacious in your way to find the exit and still end up finding none. Simply because there is none.
Although I can appreciate the usefulness of a positive mindset, you still have to be careful in emphasizing it over everything else when talking about winning because if you push it too far, you can push it into a psychosis. So, yes, you can 100% win, always, but only in your mind. In reality, there is no guarantee. Sometimes, despite all your efforts you still lose; thatās just reality of things (in fact, this is more of the norm). If you reject that truth and stick with the mental attitude instead you risk drifting away from reality into a lala land where everything is possible to you and youāre truly invincible (which negates the whole idea of losing and encourages denial). Itās like those kids competitions where āeveryoneā wins and there are no losers, and everyone gets a prize. So why have āa competitionā in the first place? A loss is still a loss.
Thor approves this I am sure, unfortunately Iād be the guy who hangs off a crane by one hand but slips because there was a bit of grease on there [or worse because of the mathematics of chance]. Epic fail lols
I remember as a young punk we used to do roof jumping, and sometimes it was as if there was something there helping. I like the viking thing, just heard too much of it these days. Its not quite the same when a grown man cries because heās won ninja warrior lol. Now Steve Austins broken skull challenge, thatās a bit more like it ~ but they donāt cry and say shit like āit means so muchā.
I guess there is winning and then there is WINNING.