A good measure of how much of a fit you are for gritty, glass-chewing, winner-take-all type games is how many times you can handle hearing "no" before quitting. My limit is 1. In general, I have very low patience for paths where others have genuine yes/no control over my future.
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If my first try at a game isn't at least moderately successful, I generally switch games. If I find myself stalling out and unable to level up, I switch games. I don't know what to call this attitude. Least-effort, zero-iteration, disrupt-only luck-orienteering.
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It is the exact opposite of an entrepreneurial attitude to things. But anti-entrepreneurial rather than entrepreneurial. A different pattern of adaptation rather than a non-adaptive stick-in-the-mudness. Breaking smart like water rather than rock.
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This is what picking problem spaces based on interestingness feels like. If someone’s saying yes/no, you’re on a path where subtle things cannot be found. Only the most important subtle things are worth carrying through the fog of yes/no to install in manufactured normalcy field.
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I see your point, but interestingly enough I am drawn to entrepreneurial games for the exact opposite. The heart of entrepreneurship is doing things without anyone's permission.
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