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STRATEGY: The Shadow of the Future …

Posted on February 5th, 2010 by Michael

WHAT IS SUCCESS?

There are two basic meanings of success:
1. You-Lose, and
2. I-Win.

You-Lose is the kind of success a boxer enjoys in a World Champion title fight. For him to win the title – be Champion of the World – and collect the purse he has to see that the other fighter fails to win. This kind of situation is called, by games theorists, a ‘zero sum’ game and is where success for one player means failure for the other (although in boxing, these days, the loser’s purse of $10 million is hard to think of as failure).

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  1. Adriana Cruz Says:

    Life cannot be all or nothing, we need to learn to appreciate the reward that living the process means. It´s not arriving, is everything.