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“The master,” an old martial arts saying goes, “is the one who stays on the mat five minutes longer every day than anybody else.”
This equilibrium is a naturally unstable one. The trick to getting there is not being afraid to fall out of it. This is why children are good at it. When everything is a toy, everything is at once worthless in the infinite game and priceless in the finite game, because its worth can be a function of how you’re playing with it. In one game, an empty cardboard box can be priceless and an expensive doll worthless. In the next game, the roles can be reversed.
But once you grow up, you become afraid of losing yourself in a finite game because you lose the ability to stop playing.
Don’t Surround Yourself With Smarter People
Venkatesh Rao
“Getting old,” he writes in Becoming Myself, “is giving up one damn thing after another.”
The Existentialist Prepares to Die
Jordan Michael Smith
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