What Is Your Applicable Strategy For Winning?
What Is Your Applicable Strategy For Winning?
Life can be intimidating, especially when you understand that it's a competition, but envisaging it as a competition eventually kills the grind. The reason I deem it to be a competition is because we do not play by our rules.
For example, if an employee does not fix the time at which they have to get to work, an employer does. Now if you have other workers consistently coming to work early, while you're not.
It puts them in the prime position to be incentivized for their right attitude to work. Whether it's by increasing their pay it's by giving them stipends, or even putting them in prime position to be promoted.
Attaining Goals In A Competitive Setting
So, if you're aiming to achieve a certain goal that others are aiming to also achieve in a particular setting, then it becomes a competition. When people decide to go the extra mile in their life quests, it makes you who is taking it very slow, look like you're lazy or unserious.
When people decide to put in extra effort, it could be their individual strategy to win. Because we're differently blessed, we cannot collectively excel in everything we do. When I was in school I was terrible at sports.
This wasn't because I was naturally bad. I just couldn't compete because it required physical strength. I excelled at other things and the people who excelled at sports couldn't also excel at the things I was good at doing.
In life, everyone wants to win everything at every time
But if people are equipped to win without ceasing the world would be bereft of opportunities for everyone because some people would already be ahead and claimed all the opportunities.
Why?
By default, our minds are resilient. We're mentally wired to be champions, but our nature generally limits us. For example, a lady who has all the guile to be a beauty queen might realize a little bit of physical attribution is needed to win the prize.
Because of this, she backs down because she knows that in that department, she cannot excel. Even if the prize money is 20 million dollars. Reality might set in immediately when she sees the people she has to compete with.
Some Of The Most Important Ventures Things In Life Are Largely Competitive
While it's true that everything is not a competition, we have to understand that some of the most important things in life are hugely competitive, why?
Because they're precious, valuable, and incessantly scarce.
When things are valuable, everyone wants them. This creates scarcity. The reason is that humans are inherently insatiable so even if the world's resources are meant to be enough for everyone, our instability changes this, and we're back to struggling and finding the right strategies/hacks to compete.
Why do you think people need hacks? We all do because competing based on the ruleset of normalcy might not favor our diverse strengths and capacities.
This is why people choose to invent their strategies
Strategies are unique ways to beat the rules of the grind
Everyone is grinding, either we're doing it obviously or behind the curtain, whatever methods we apply are because we cannot afford the hassle of conventionality. The fact that a path is the way to a place, doesn't make it the only way.
Sometimes our minds are programmed to accept that there's only one way in life. But things like hunger and the quest for survival often help us realize that with the right strategies, we can get to where people are getting without needing their unique hacks and tips for success.
By All Legal & Reasonable Means
I use to watch a show on DSTV, it's titled MAN VS EXPERT. The show owner goes about challenging people who are better than him in different fields, but he ends up beating them at their game because these people rely on prowess and experience to win.
while he relies on counter strategies, cheating, and unconstitutional methods to win.
This isn't to say we have to choose illegality to beat the odds, it only means that we cannot win when the rules are not made by us, because the people who made some specific rules in competitive games, made them, never knowing if you'd compete or not.
For a long while now, I've been looking for ways to thrive without sinking myself psychologically.
One of the things we can never afford to lose is motivation.
.......If this is lost, all that's left is fear, uncertainty, and doubt. The ability to coin our individual strategies is mostly the best way to compete, we're inviting the game to play by our rules as well, because let's face it, we're not meant to win in everything we do.
The universe makes this so, but some people are reprogramming the rules of normalcy to bend the game in their favor. While this is evil ingenuity, it's the strategy that these people have coined to win.
You cannot approach life as a headless chicken
choosing to tow the path of others. For example, Inasmuch as crypto is meant to be largely profiting, many will still lose, why?
They have no individual strategy or strategies that are customized for and by them. Life might just continue to remain intimidating when we keep looking at how far we have to go, especially when we're late to the party.
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My only simple strategy is hard work, perseverance and consistency.
Honestly, it works for me whenever I encounter a tough art work or other complicated works
However, good morning bro
Wishing you a blissful weekend
These are general series of brilliant strategics, it can however not universally work for everyone unless it's diversified and customized. However, field of application can also matter a lot like you've stated: art.
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It has always been about strategies. What are your strategies to do better than others in the field ?. That is why some people are referred to being extraordinarily. They went a little extra than everyone else. That extra is their own unique strategy. I am in sales and it has always been about strategies. Sales is a game of numbers and you have to deploy as many strategies as possible to be able to stay in the game.
Well, people that are in sales have it even tougher for them. The reason is that convincing people to part with their money is very difficult. In times like this, anyone who cannot be creative will never get sales or customers. It's a competitive world out there.
Through strategies, we're able to tip the balance in our favor and gain an advantage over other players in the game. I sometimes see it as maximising the rewards from our strengths and minimising the losses from our weaknesses. I think one must have a strategy in almost everything they do, especially if they want to win. Because life is generally competitive. We either play the game or the game is played for us.
Yeah, being strategical tips the balance in our favor especially in a world where people tend to do what's popular rather than unique. When the world becomes competitive, not everyone can match that energy, but we can still win by playing by our rules.
Exactly. Good that we each have abilities that we can use to create our own rules. Life is a bit more interesting when it is competitive.
This is very true, for the most part, our response is inherently to survive, to conquer... to overcome. However, the lack of character and discipline can be the "break" in the circuit, which ultimately brings about defeat. Character can propel the "will" or desire of man... but without it, he isn't much.
Thanks for comment. We're mostly set out to survive, but some of the times we don't get it done especially because of human factors we mostly cannot control. At the end of the day, we cannot do much because it takes a lot of discipline to overcome some of our natural inclination.
This is relatable, I worked for a company, actually, it was the company I started my Telecoms career with in SA, for 6 years that I worked for the company I was only late to work 1 day.
And that was one of the characteristics that earned me the boss's favorite, for me it was natural not to be late in anything I do, some might see it as a competition while unknowingly could be competing against me, and for me I will be at ease at myself doing what I naturally.
We should always remember that we are unique in way(s) that we will most likely outshine those competing against us.
You're right, sometimes being early to work is some of the right attitude to work we often cultivate that we do not even see as anything. Just like between you and your boss there. However, there are people who are inherent late comers and because of you do things differently to them, they'll see it as a competition. When we're wired to be hardworking and resilient, others might see this at a threat sometimes.
I love this last part the more. This is because it's relatable. When you see how far others have gone and where you are, there's every tendency that you will feel as though you are late to the party and of course, intimated.
But someone told me once, it doesn't matter who gets there first, it's about who does better. So this really makes your post relatable because it doesn't necessarily require talent to move the most pieces to attain our dreams, what we will need to beat the odds or the rules of the game is strategy.
And If we are not setting those strategies in place, we might as well say goodbye to success.
The truth is, we mostly need to train our minds to be disciplined, if not, we'd mostly look at the people who have firstly gotten there. We feel like the time we'd need to be accomplished might take too long. Our minds are programmed to focus on others especially when we need prerequisites to run our races. Discipline is one of the more important value we need as people, if not, it becomes difficult to see ourself; how far we can go.
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I agree. When we look at them we tend to feel the distance. And sometimes lack the motivation or discipline to go further because we feel we might never be able to reach.
But if we discipline ourselves, we can be living examples of, "Shoot for the Moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars" quote.
Almost everyone experiences this, almost everyday, we live in the pressure to make it, get things done and be achievers. Life's expectancy alone can ruin the motivation to even compete.
He said, almost everyone, boss, it's everyone, it doesn't matter what hierarchy you are, the pressure to make it, to achieve something will always be there. Truthfully, life isn't a bed of roses, we just need to learn to use the thorns as motivation 🥺... Somehow
First of all, we need the bull market to boost any motivation 🤣🤣🤣🤣, for now, finding ways to stay afloat is the best survival kit.
Hahaha.. this is very true oo 😅
Make everywhere stew abeg 🥺😂😂😂