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Taken to an extreme the pinnacle of an ambitious and competitive person is someone who will passionately try to win a shit eating contest. Because winning is winning.

Within such systems everyone is clammoring for the judge/critic roles. You kinda sorta escape the game but at the cost of having to pretend eating shit is some sort of amazing thing to do.

Monks escape in a different way. They make life into a game of I Spy. The game is to notice and be conscious of as much as possible. It’s “the” meta-game every other game derives from.

If you notice more and can act on it, you are better. This is having “vision”. This is becoming the all seeing God of the game. This is the top of the mountain.

This central point is your very own point of view when you’re not surpressing it in an attempt to climb some other mountain to get a better view of things. You already have the best view of things for yourself.

How can you tell which voice is yours and which voices are “installed”? “You” don’t speak just like a company like Amazon or Apple doesn’t speak. You have a spokesperson like the CEO or the founder but the thing in of itself can never do anything except just “be”.

Most CEOs and leaders “are” well intentioned. They simply can’t understand why people are unhappy. They’re too removed from the more common reality. (Their reality is just as valid though)

We choose to put on a pedestal people who say “let them eat cake” because they’re removed from out reality. We wanted it because we wanted an ideal to strive for.