Holy hell, even Tetris has a metagame!
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Reminds me of this John Danaher clip:
Fridman asks: “what makes you successful?”
Danaher answers: “in a highly developed world, the key to success is to identify some area in your industry that is currently undervalued.”
Which is what these kids did.
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Danaher cont: “in any industry there are trends, which push the industry in some direction or another. What makes a person stand out is their ability to look at the possibilities out there and say ‘here is something that is genuinely useful but is undervalued’, and bring that in”
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Of course, Danaher’s version of this is in Brazilian Jujitsu, where he took leg locks and developed them to a point where a fighter could use them with full control. (Leg locks, as originally developed, were seen as dangerous, uncontrollable techniques.)
So his students won.
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Closing the loop on this with Danaher’s parting thoughts, at the end of the podcast:
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