Life is a game so play nice

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Life is a game
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We’re all born to play
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Long is the way
Sometimes it’s not right
Sometimes it’s not fair
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The journey of life
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Gets harder at times
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Long is the way
You know how it feels
To smile through the pain

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Wolves in the way
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Hunting their prey
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Hard is the rain
Sneaking in the shadows
They always remain
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Life is a maze
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Sometimes full of haze
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Hard is the rain
You know how it feels
When your hopes go astray

ref. 2x
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Life is a game Ey Еу
Жизньигра
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Мы все рождены, чтобы играть
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Длинный путь
Иногда это не правильно
Иногда это не справедливо,
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Жизненный путь
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Становится все труднее в разы
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Длинный путь
Вы знаете, как он чувствует себя
Улыбаться сквозь боль

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Волки в пути
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Охота свою добычу
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Трудендождь
Тайком в тени
Они всегда остаются
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Жизньлабиринт
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Иногда полный туман
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Трудендождь
Вы знаете, как он чувствует себя
Когда ваши надежды сбиться с пути

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1. ‘Life is a Game’ is a life simulation game where you see the life of a person from birth until death.

2. Thanks to many players’ suggestions, the female main character is now available to play.

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How does it Work?

Listen to the laughter of children in the children’s room.

You will feel calm.

Thanks to many players’ suggestions, the female main character is now available to play.

Play now to start a new life as a woman.

How will you remember the life of a mother?

Find another way to enjoy the Coffin Dance.

‘Life is a Game’ is a running game.

Your life and appearance changes based on the type and

amount of coins you obtain, and the choices you make using

the Choice button throughout the game.

For example, if you painted a lot when you were a child,

your character develops into an artistic teenager and shows

their talents in art. If they play a musical instrument, there

is a higher chance that your character develops into a singer.

Also, you need to take care of your happiness and the relationships

you have with other people.

Experience the numerous ending scenes that change based on all of

the decisions you make as a baby, as a child, as a teenager, as a man

in his prime and as an elder.

*Tip: Adequately make use of the skills on the lower left.

Items purchased from the shop appear when certain conditions have

been met, so make sure to keep an eye out.

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Top Reviews

Perfect game to pass the time

It’s a great game I love to play it trying to get new endings and earn all the achievements what makes it better is you can buy almost everything just by playing watching ads and doing achievements some suggestions would be adding more variation to the character like Skin Color Gender Etc Difficulties would be nice Hard mode to easy mode Normal would be what we have now Hard mode you start off poor Easy mode you start off rich with maybe 100 coins I also think they should add more than a button to the jobs like cops Maybe a shootout with criminals where we tap the screen to shoot? And if your fast enough you live but if your slow you “Die as a Hero” Also something cool would be that you could start the game off as your last characters kid other than that perfect game guys really a winner👍🏾

This game makes me wonder 🙂

I don’t have many games on my phone, I mostly do art and edit pictures, but after getting a bit bored I browsed around for a fun game to play, and so this one popped up. I truly love this game! It makes you think, it makes you wonder. It brings back memories and makes you ponder about the future. I don’t know, I seem a little poetic but it’s true! This game is really something. My favorite game to play.

Addicting, deep, and overall a really good game

I have been playing ever since pretty much 2019 and it’s been a really good game and the updates!! It actually has some important issues sometimes and one of the ending scenes show (TW. ) attempted suicide which is a real problem and if you consume too much cigarettes during work you die early, but other than that it’s a really good game I recommend

it’s a great game, but there are some issues.

there aren’t particularly issues but the point is that there isn’t enough realism put into the game. 1) I’m sure there are a lot of females playing this game and wanting to be able to change their character into a female. 2) maybe add a little more ethnicity into the game! like instead of having tan or caucasian characters, and africans, native americans, asians, and many more ethnics. 3) there is options like the “blind” person one? yeah it’s very nice but it barely happens. i recommend adding more stuff like that, possibly mental/physical issues.

The game is good but has it problems.

Hello my name askia and I am 12 year old. I wanted to play the game as a kid but never got to do it. When I first got the game it had problems… I was doing the normal stuff like baby, kid, and then school,at first when I got a job I try to do all of my work nice but they did not like me when I try make friends they hated me when I try do my work it was bad. So I guess it was a luck game. And then something really bad. A ad…. Every time you done a life ads will just come I hated it. So yeah a luck game and with little bit of ads 4/5

Stereotypical :/

Get this to the top of the page so people can see. I know there are many girls playing this so there should be an option to play as a girl that you can buy with tokens and be able to marry guys(and girls)because there are so many games where you have to play as a boy so they should change this and update everything for girl situations and I feel like boys should have the option to marry the same gender! This is so stereotypical.

It’s still fun but.

Whenever I play as a girl I can’t even make it through life because she gets depressed right at the end of school and then in the middle of work it’s game over because her sadness is fully down it’s as if life is on hard difficulty when I play as a girl but easy as a boy. Idk what’s wrong with the system but I can easily get through life with different endings as a guy I can’t even get past the first work stage as a girl!!

Keeps on crashing!

Ok, so the game is amazing! But every time the cutscenes (the part that summarizes the whole gameplay) start to show up, IT CRASHES. So then I have to go back in and wait for the process. There was only a few times I managed to finish the whole cutscenes, but then it shows : Ad for _ gem(s) yes or no. I click no but the ad shows up anyway then it crashes. Overall the game is amazing other than those problem(s)

A Few Suggestions

The game is great, really. It’s fun, interesting, and a great way to pass the time if you’re bored. But I have a few suggestions that would make the game even better, and there’s one bug ( at least I think it’s a bug ). For starters, players should have the option to play as a girl. Second, players should have the option to pick a male or female partner. Third, players should be able to choose if they want a baby, what gender they’d like their child to be, and what name they want to give their child. And finally, there’s a problem with the ‘childhood crush’ item. I was able to only use that option once, and now, even with the option on, the woman still doesn’t appear as one of the women that I can marry.

Read please.

I love the game it’s self but I have suggestions, 1: I enjoy the game but with the 2 people that I just play as over again is just well THEIR BASICALLY THE SAME PEOPLE. Please ad a character customize thing, 2: I need to know more about my children such as gender etc. cus I need to know about those children. 3: not just children BUT ME! I need to know about me! But sure I get to know them, but I need a description of me, and wife/husband 4: if I had to pick a hobby it’ll be GAMING! of course gaming! You guys run a game company! So please ad gaming, 5: I have much more ideas wich are in you guessed it! Life! So what you do is make this more like life easy as pie. Thank you!

Good, fun, and toooooons of issues.

Hey! I’ve really enjoyed playing this game. I just wanted to point out some issues to the developers. This game isn’t racist, sexist, homophobic, or whatever, but it doesn’t give the character a lot of options. You’re always white, a boy, straight, etc. Let’s see Native Americans, Africans, Asians, etc being represented. Also, religion might be an interesting thing to be added in. Let’s also see women represented, maybe add mental health issues as a factor, etc. I guess just make the game more diverse and complex so that you can REALLY say “life is a game”. There are lots of ways to improve. This game is great, just keep working!

Switched game data

Ok, so I had this game on a old phone of mine & decided to get it again. But im afraid that my non existent data or something, got mixed up with someone else. Story for more details: I downloaded it but it already had stuff on it so i thought oh I must’ve forgot i got it on my newer phone at one point. but the text was Russian & i only speak English fluently. So I deleted off & re uploaded it on my phone three times to try to fix it. Sadly, i gave up trying to fix it because i dont wanna mess someones game up, hopefully this isnt happening to someone else. (Also their isnt enough diversity)

Censorship, really?

Not that it impacts the game but the devs decided to censor the “jiggling boobs” in the end from the wife in a bikini. it actually looks bad to boot. Again, doesn’t effect the game but it annoys me when games do this on principle. That said, the game is fun. It’s interesting to try and work for a specific ending and though there is an in game gems currency, it’s not a predatory micro transaction, pay to win type. I do recommend the game though. The rating is just in response to the pointless censorship of something that didn’t need to be censored.

Good pictures but.

Hi everyone who is reading this, I am not sure if it’s my I pad or just the game. but it’s not loading into the game. and I am kinda disappointed with it. I hope the creators see this and try to fix it. Because I really do want to play it I have deleted it and re-downloaded. it I have also tried turning off the internet didn’t work tried many times to get in tried swiping out all my tabs but still didn’t work. So CREATORS PLEASE READ SO MABEY YOU CAN FIX THE PROBLEM thank you.(plus I was not shouting at them was just making it big so they see it.)

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Life is a game so play nice

Life is a Game

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Life is a wagon wheel

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2 consecutive soccer player event successes

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2 consecutive salary man event successes

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2 consecutive singer event successes

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2 consecutive construction worker event successes

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Obtained all hobbies

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Purchased all houses

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Purchased all cars

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Purchased all flowers

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Die of lung cancer 5 times

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5 consecutive marriages with one girl

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Die of excessive stress 3 times

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Clear with more than 5,000 wealth

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Marry the girl you can’t forget(Marry your highschool sweetheart)

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На странице представлены текст и перевод с английского на русский язык песни «Life is A Game» из альбома «Life Is A Game» группы The Jive Aces.

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I never wanted to be another gear in that corrupted world’s machine All my life felt like a dream I was never who I really wanted me to be But then God shattered that dream’s cage And rose me up to a new stage Cut it away like a sharp knife Then gave me this new life Now suddenly there’s a new twist A reason to really exist I wanna breathe in the fame As this whole new world cheers my name I’ll never leave it to fate So when I see a chance I’ll pave the way I’ll call checkmate This is the time to break through So I’ll rewrite the story and I’ll finally change all the rules WE ARE MAVERICK We won’t give in Until we win this game Though I don’t know what tomorrow holds I’ll make a bet and play my cards to win this game Unlike the rest I’ll do my best and I won’t ever lose To give up this chance would be a deadly sin So let’s bet it all I’ll put all my faith in us so let the games begin

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Life is a Single Player Game

Life is a single player game. You’re born alone. You’re going to die alone. All of your interpretations are alone. All your memories are alone. You’re gone in three generations and no one cares. Before you showed up nobody cared. It’s all single player.

I stumbled upon this bit of brilliance in a recent podcast I was listening to. It is an interesting way to frame the world, and one I want to explore further. On the surface it sounds depressing and lonely, but it is a bit different.

Loneliness is essential to being human. Each of us comes into the world and eventually realizes that we are a separate person, alone. We travel through life alone and ultimately we die alone. Acknowledging and accepting this on a conscious level, and learning how to live our lives with some degree of grace and satisfaction is the human condition. Thus we all have some degree of existential loneliness. In this respect it is a ‘natural state’.

This is a painful reality to accept. The mind doesn’t like it. So the mind does what it always does when it is bothered; it changes reality. We invent stories that are not really true.Our mind fills in details that didn’t actually happen and creates a seamless appearance of reality from a smattering of sensory input.

In order to deal with the world our mind creates useful things like ego, personality and the illusion of a separate self. Our brain convinces us we can experience each other’s thoughts and emotions. It continually compares us to others. Life feels multiplayer. The illusion is an incredible dance that evolution has created for us, but the side effect is we forget what really matters.

Education

From birth we are thrown into a world of competition and comparison. Our DNA is encoded to compete. Our genes only care about their survival and replication. That is their purpose. We are built to be competitive. This is the essence of our subconscious mind.

It should not surprise us that all of our education, both formal and informal, teaches us to compete against others. Society creates a vast array of multi-player competitive games for us; school, sports, earning money, the corporate ladder, status, mating; and it constantly reinforces the idea that these are the important games to play.

We need some of this competitive drive. Without it we would still be wandering around the grasslands, without tools, foraging for nuts, berries and shitty tasting root vegetables. In fact, the only reason you are here today is because some other bags of mostly water with a few scattered more complex molecules (your parents) out-competed others for the right to pass their genes on.

I’ll wait patiently while you text them and tell them how grateful you are. Actually never mind, they did what they did for entirely selfish reasons. I’ll explore that in another essay.

In modern society it is pretty easy for an average person to survive and replicate. There are exceptions to this rule of course, but I’m assuming if you are reading this right now you have the basic tools for survival.

The problem is we let this survival program run rampant and unchecked. Our mind is simply out of control most of the time. We invent competitive games where they need not exist, simply because this is our default programing. Our brain needs something to do, so it does what it knows how to do. It creates suffering. Unfortunately this is a feature, not a bug.

The bigger issue though is happiness and contentment is single player. There is no one that can share in your happiness; it is all alone and in your mind. No one really cares about your happiness except you. When people do things to make you happy, it is actually a desire within them that drives this. It causes them happiness (or maybe decreased suffering).

Mindfulness

Our internal state can change dramatically without changing anything external. The external games we play are superfluous and largely unnecessary. Meditation and mindfulness has helped me see this clearly.

This week was a tough one at work. I’ve been working much more than usual (I will write about this in future articles). It was extremely busy and I was tired. I found myself getting frustrated and a little angry at times. When I realized this I would pause and simply observe my thoughts. I would imagine myself relaxing and smiling. I would think of all the things I was grateful for.

All of this took less than a minute. When I resumed my work nothing had changed with respect to my external circumstance. There was still a big list of studies to look at and power through. I was no closer to walking out the door. I was just as tired and hungry. But my internal mindset was completely changed.

Getting through my work and doing my job to make money is a multi-player game I’m currently engaged in. I make the conscious decision to keep playing, but my mindset and how happy or miserable I am is entirely up to me. It is single player.

Learning

Somehow I have developed the power to nudge my internal state closer to contentment in almost any circumstance I have found myself in. Why didn’t anyone teach this to me? This is THE skill of skills. Why did I have to piece this together in my late 30’s from random podcasts and blog posts?

People went out of their way to teach me things that didn’t really matter (like organic chemistry and geography). These same people told me it was very important to then measure my comprehension (tests). They were very convincing and as a result I learned to play those multiplayer games very well. If standardized tests were a martial art, I had a black belt.

But no one taught me how to be happy.

No one really cared all that much about my happiness.

Maybe they couldn’t teach me. Perhaps they didn’t know how. Incidentally I don’t really use my geography and organic chemistry knowledge all that often, but I use my happiness skills many times every day.

Parents

My parents wanted me to do something in life that would make me happy, but they didn’t tell me what this was or how to find it. Notice I said they told me to find something to make me happy. This is the trap of the external. It reinforces the belief that something external is needed to make us happy. It could be a job, social status, or a spouse. Maybe it is making a lot of money, doing something meaningful or excelling at sports.

It doesn’t matter, it is the same trap. Find something external and hope it makes you happy. This is a fundamental delusion: some external thing will make us happy. I’m sorry to tell you this, but most likely it won’t. It will seem to work at times, but it’s not durable.

I think they really did want me to be happy, but this is not the same thing as learning to be happy.

I don’t blame my parents for not teaching me this. In retrospect I know that they couldn’t teach me. No one taught them. No one told them it was all single player.

You can’t win

Another problem with these multi-player games is they are unwinnable. By this I do not mean that we can’t do well at them, but there will always be someone better. There is always someone faster, stronger, richer, better looking, a better writer, a better lover. Even if you somehow manage to be the best at something, you will not be the best at everything.

Once you make it into the top 1% of something it will all be great right? Let’s use wealth as an example. We all want to be a 1%er? Do you think people in the top 1% think they have won the game? I can tell you from personal experience (I know many of these folks) that they just change their metrics. The rules of the game change to match the competition.

things that wouldn’t even enter your consciousness before.

You start to think buying mansions (real ones, not the fake McMansions) and flying in a private jet is feasible. You compare yourself to the ultra-wealthy (the people making 5-10 million a year and actually flying around in those jets). People scrimping to save enough money to take their family on a vacation in discounted coach seats isn’t who you are comparing yourself to anymore. The goal posts moved. It’s a different game now.

Never enough

This is why many of them don’t feel rich. They lament that only if they had a little more, then they would be satisfied. I’ve also noticed though, that when that little more comes there is no river of contentment. This is the hedonic hamster wheel we find ourselves on.

Contentment is always just out of grasp when we play these games, but we keep playing. We cannot stop. Maybe the outcome of the next game will be different; make us feel happy. We are always trying to win (even if we are doing so subconsciously). We want to be better than those around us. Striving to be in the top 1% of whatever is a multi-player competitive game.

Wealth is just one of many external validations of “success”. We do this all the time when we grasp for better stuff, more prestige, etc. The prizes change, but it’s the same game. We keep hoping that something external will bring us this internal peace that we crave. But happiness, contentment and life satisfaction is a single player game.

Stop playing

I’ve noticed that the happiest people I know have opted out of many of the multi-player games. They use internal metrics. There is no competition with anyone to be happy. They don’t compare themselves to others or experience jealousy. They treat success as a byproduct of happiness, not as an addictive drug like most of us do. Happy people think single player.

There are few absolutes in life, and this topic is no exception. We can’t let go of this completely, just as we can’t have total freedom or total happiness. We will keep playing these games because that is what we do. But living a good life is not about perfection, it is when we nudge ourselves closer to the ideal. The more we can realize that the important games we play are all internal, the more we can focus on them and ignore the distractions. We need more signal and less noise in our lives.

Start to slowly disengage from these multiplayer games. Start to care a little less about winning them. They don’t matter all that much. It may feel a little lonely and empty at first. We fear quitting the multiplayer games because this reminds us we are truly alone. Single player brings the existential uneasiness of our loneliness into focus, but paradoxically this is where true contentment lives.

Nurture and support the internal metrics of happiness for yourself. Lean into and push past the uncomfortable feeling of living a more unconventional life.

Start thinking single player.

*Often we feel completely satisfied with who we are, but we learn to be unhappy with ourselves. Many of us are quite skilled in teaching others to be miserable.

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I have helped more families after they sold their family business than I can count in my over three decades in wealth management. Amazing to watch them think the money they got would fill the void they didn’t know they would have. Their business had given them purpose and influence. Without it they had neither,

Most succeeded in making the transition to self-sufficiency. Sadly, some families struggled mightily.

Excellent insights, especially for those of us who are adept at creating those stories we tell ourselves.

Money can buy us influence, but it just wont bring us meaning or purpose. Once we have enough the money just amplifies what is already there.

I find the transition from work to ‘retirement’ a fascinating topic. I would love to hear more from your perspective. What were some of the common themes that brought people to fail or succeed?

I enjoyed how you approached this topic in terms of single and multiple players. I’ve often wondered if people who are “outsiders” because they don’t play the game by trying to fit in with their peers (when it goes against their values or interests) and do their own thing are somehow wired differently. Part of this might come by being comfortable spending time with ourselves so that we can figure out what is truly important to us – rather than on what our peers. family, or marketers tell us we need to have. It’s pretty hard to ever be happy when you rely on external factors that are constantly moving the goal post. And I know it can be hard for people who have spent their whole lives trying to measure up to other people’s expectations to switch to living up to their own expectations (once they identify them that is). A great book to read on this is the Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz.

Interesting questions. I think to some extent our ‘wiring’ is instrumental in how we live our lives. I have often wondered about how introverts and extroverts approach these games, and if it’s measurable.

Well done, as always.

I thought of you today (twice) in about a five minute span during a Q&A session after a terrific presentation on radiologist burnout at the ARRS meeting.

The first member of the audience, a young radiologist, all but blamed the physician burnout problem on Trump. Really? I rolled my eyes so visibly that the speaker and I made uncomfortable eye contact. I suck at poker. He needs to read the blog about surviving the Trump presidency. He needs to grow up, too.

Immediately afterward, a very thoughtful mid-career radiologist gave two suggestions. The first was to take stock of the handful of cases that you make an impact every day, record them, and review them again before you leave work, to reinforce that your work has value. We all know that in many (maybe most) cases, we add little value, so celebrate the the ones where you do.

The second was to go part time and by doing so, be the be more likely to be the best version of yourself when you are at work. The second guy has mastered the single player game,

Haha, excellent story! It is impossible that Trump could be responsible for anything in the medical system at this point. I’m trying to imagine the logic involved.

That other rad has some great ideas though. What he is talking about is injecting meaning into our job and I think it’s a fantastic idea. As radiology is so far removed from care many days (diagnostic, not IR) it is easy to not see the difference we make. It is really easy to become cynical. After the 20th set of spine x-rays with “mild-to-moderate multilevel degenerative changes” one starts to question the ten years of training.

My hats off to that guy, he sounds like he has figured some stuff out.

I don’t think humans progressed because they were competing with each other – co operation was at least as important as competition. The real breakthroughs though came from people playing about, asking why not? Or what if…? Also single player is a western way of looking at life ( and maybe even a male one more than a female one). Other folks have more of a “our team ” attitude to life.

Co-operation and competition are both necessary, although the problem lies when our native programing takes over and tuns unchecked. Different cultures and genders may value different things, but we all play these games at times. Thanks for the comment.

Interestingly, even in societies that seem to work better as a group, there are still competitions at various levels. So, I agree that we are wired for competition.

That being said, it doesn’t mean part of our competition shouldn’t be to help others get further along in what ever endeavors they are pursing.

You are quite correct in that it is difficult to wrap your mind around the concept, but I although we may be ultimately alone, we really do need other people. When we are born, suffice it to say, we would not survive very long without others becoming a part of our lives.

And at death, we may be the ones taking our last breath, but that passing probably goes better when we are surrounded by those we love.

Even if we are forgotten within 3 generations (on average) we can certainly strive to leave a legacy that can live on even if we ourselves are forgotten.

Rich Devos wrote one of my all time favorite books, Compassionate Capitalism. It is okay to strive, to achieve, to compete. Just lift others up along the way instead of knocking them down.

I agree, we do need other people. We have become absolutely dependent on society for our survival. Helping others and trying to be useful often makes us happy, and is a great game to play.

The question I find interesting is ‘why should we strive to leave a legacy?’

So many people feel this need to leave something lasting in the world, yet in a couple of generations no one will care. Getting to the root of questions like these are where we find the profound truths.

If we don’t strive to leave something that can carry on, then how have we truly affected future generations? Think about poems, books, architecture, photos, art, national parks, roads, bridges, etc. Does anyone remember who even designed the Golden Gate bridge, let alone everyone that helped build it? But we sure do appreciate being able to get across the bay.

And let’s go way, way, way, way back. Don’t we appreciate the knowledge of creating fire. What can you do that can help others in future generations. So yes we are wired to compete, but I believe we are also wired to make a difference, hopefully wired to make a good one.

All those things are true, but it gets really interesting when we keep asking the question why.

Why do we need to affect future generations?

Whatever the answer is to that question ask why again. Eventually we will get to a profound truth or end up in a circular argument. It is a fun thought experiment 🙂

Thanks for the great insight. Its is interesting how you took an internal struggle and turned it into a game theory question. It processes quickly for me as an engineering type mind set. I like this type of approach because I think you can better quantify your points instead of just discussing them. To add to your points, as an American society I see far too many people focus on external happiness rather than listen to what really makes them happy internally as an individual.
For about 3 separate summers when I was about 10 years old my parents would leave me with my grandmother to volunteer at the nursing home where she worked. I would do it for 2 days a week, and the main reason why they did this was because my parents couldn’t afford someone to watch me. What they really didn’t expect was how much impact this made on me at an early age. I can go on and on about the insights that I learned, and it is really interested to look back and start to piece together what really makes a person happy as I also become older and more experienced with life. Your article really hits the point that many people don’t come to understand until late in life or never, and that is self content is a major key to happiness. Life has many distractions and multi player games like you said you will never win, and in the end it doesn’t even matter. Make your life more about becoming self content and through your actions hopefully others will see the benefits. It is amazing when you filter out the multiplayer games how much pointless crap is in people’s lives that are wasted effort and time.
Thanks again,

There is a lot of wisdom stored up in people that are in the twilight years of life. It is wonderful when we are able to soak up some of it at such a young age. Funny how things that seen so mundane in the moment can change the arc of our thinking throughout our lifetime.

do you have a twitter handler where you tweet when there is a new post? thanks in advance

Yes. At the top of the web page there is Twitter button. You can also follow me on Twitter here.

Alone you come, alone you go;
what did you bring that you lost here?
What did you gain that you can carry?
Memories and lessons are all there is.

Life intervenes, creates many illusions
Getting caught in them is part of our delusions
What did you gain here that you can carry?
Memories and lessons are all there is.

All relationships end with the house
Your children may mourn at the burial
But nobody comes with you on the last journey.
Memories and lessons are all there is.

I could go on, but will stop my attempt at poetry here. Your great post HP insrpired these words. I love the single player framework.

Thank you TFR. No one has written a poem in the comments yet and I am honored. I would respond in kind, but I am only capable of limericks and an occasional marginal haiku 😉

Enjoying the blog. I think there is a lot more to say about how we connect with others. Ideas like this oversimplify our relationships with others:

There is no one that can share in your happiness; it is all alone and in your mind. No one really cares about your happiness except you. When people do things to make you happy, it is actually a desire within them that drives this.

I think it’s important to grasp that living our desires is not mutually exclusive from caring about another. Even if the reason we care about another is for our own peace there is power and relationship in that empathy. It’s because we all have an awareness of others and can feel them to an extent that we have meaningful relationships.

It’s important to think about this because we can’t truly live alone and it is not single player. It’s a higher effect of both understanding yourself deeply and independent of others but then understanding how the self you are can connect with others and the world as a whole. It’s in knowing ourselves and seeing how we connect with the world that we find fulfillment and meaning.

I agree with you and I think we can both be correct. Life is all about relationships, and empathy is powerful. Without empathy we would all be sociopaths (in the true sense of the word, not the tongue-in-cheek was I throw it around in some of my articles).

The way I use single player in this context is not to say we we should isolate ourselves or consider ourselves immune to others, but to point out that our metrics for happiness are all entirely created by our brain. I want people to connect with others; that is the essence of what makes us human. Many of my happiest moments were because of the effects others had on me, but playing the multi-player games of society has never really made me happy.

Opting out of the multiplayer games I describe above has been a form of decluttering for me. Without the distractions I can focus on the things and people that make me happy. By being happy myself, I have found I make the people around me happy as well. It’s a win-win.

Thanks for the comment 🙂

Thank you for another great post. There is so much to think about. The section that impacted me most was the parents section. I have a 12 and 14 yr old. It’s an uphill battle to counter what they get from peers, teachers and counselors at school about money and possessions, the importance of deciding in 8th and 9th grade what you want your career to be, strong focus on single activity (sport, music), etc. Within those short paragraphs is wisdom that I will help focus my efforts.

As you wrote above, there is a strong focus on the external factors to make or help us be happy. Career, grades, relationships, activities, etc., etc. I see my kids going down that path. I feel like I had a big win recently. Since 7th grade, my daughter was absolutely certain that if she did not graduate high school with a 4.0 gpa, then it would be impossible for her to get into any decent college. Even though I was a college registrar for 15 years, she did not believe me that it wasn’t true. It took her getting her first B to change, but when that happened, she had what I gave her to catch her and didn’t go the “life is over” direction. She recognized that pushing herself so hard for the 4.0 wasn’t making her happy, but that there was value in having tried something that was difficult (physics).

I’ve had at least half a dozen career changes in my 45 years on earth. I never learned how to focus internally for my happiness and spent many years frustrated at many of those jobs. Reading your blog, using the Headspace app, and other things that I’m just learning now are helping improve my life and well-being. I’m glad in a sense that these are happening to me at the time my kids are going through some important formative years.

Thank you for putting words to how I should alter my strategy. Now I just have to figure out the tactics…

Hi Happy Philosopher, I only recently found your blog. It is so comforting to know others out there have been through similar situations as I have. I am a trained lawyer who burned out of private practice after 4 years. I now work in the non-profit sector where I work Monday-Friday 40 hours a week. I started becoming interested in personal finance this July when I looked at my account to see how much money I had to put into my retirement savings and I was sooo surprised to see I had an entire paycheque available. I realized I only spent one paycheque in July. This was because I now had the time to go grocery shopping and make my own meals. I had tons of fun in July too. I was away camping or at the lake every single weekend in July except for one. That is when I realized how much money I used to spend on things that didn’t make me happy. I also realized how much it cost me to work as a private practice lawyer. I used to blame my low savings on living in a big expensive city. I still live in the same big city and have waaay more fun than I used to, yet I have saved 30% of my after tax income this year. This July, October and November, I managed to save 50% of my income.

It is true, who are spending time around really influences who much you spend. I come from a working class background. Even when I was practicing law, most of my friends were not lawyers. It was always important for me to maintain my real friendships. However I found there was a lot of pressure to spend money at work:

1- after work drinks in the financial districts or expensive lunches downtown with coworkers. How do you say no to going to lunch when your entire team is going?
2- invitations to expensive fundraising breakfasts or galas.
3- pressured to donate large amount of money to fundraisers. We had stupid competitions where you would sponsor certain partners at the firm
4- I needed to wear suits which were expensive to buy and costly to dry clean.
5- I never had time go grocery shop or cook so I purchased almost all my meals out

At that time, I felt I was pretty frugal and poor because I did not own a car, house or any expensive designer clothing. At my current job EVERYONE brings their own lunch. I rarely get invited to events anymore and when I do I tell people I can’t afford to go. The fundraisers at my current job are small ones like 2-5$ raffle tickets. I no longer have to dry clean any of my work clothes because the dress code is more business casual.

Not only have I saved a ton of money making almost all of my meals, I have lost some weight. I have more free time to enjoy my hobbies. I no longer need to use sleeping pills to fall asleep. For the first time in my life, I have absolutely NO STRESS. It is so weird but a good weird. I’m definitely happier but sometimes the yardsticks that I used to measure success creep up on me. Although I am glad I have paid off 60% of my student debt while managing to go on at least one large overseas vacation a year, I sometimes feel like I haven’t reached a “normal adult” milestone of home ownership when everyone around me is busy working on their homes. I know I would not be happy to have to sacrifice my vacations to own a home nor would not enjoy decorating or fixing a home. Thanks for reminding life is a single player game and in my game a home would not make me happy.

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Перевод песни Life is a highway (Cars)

Life is a highway

Жизнь – это шоссе

Life’s like a road that you travel on
When there’s one day here and the next day gone
Sometimes you bend and sometimes you stand
Sometimes you turn your back to the wind

There’s a world outside every darkened door
Where blues won’t haunt you anymore
Where the brave are free and lovers soar
Come ride with me to the distant shore

We won’t hesitate
To break down the garden gate
There’s not much time left today

Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you’re going my way
I wanna drive it all night long

Through all these cities and all these towns
It’s in my blood, and it’s all around
I love you now like I loved you then
This is the road, and these are the hands

From Mozambique to those Memphis nights
The Khyber Pass to Vancouver’s lights
Knock me down and back up again
You’re in my blood, I’m not a lonely man

There’s no load I can’t hold
A road so rough this I know
I’ll be there when the light comes in
Just tell ’em we’re survivors

Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you’re going my way
I wanna drive it all night long

Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme yeah

Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you’re going my way
I wanna drive it all night long

There was a distance between you and I
A misunderstanding once
But now we look in the eye

There ain’t no load that I can’t hold
A road so rough this I know
I’ll be there when the light comes in
Just tell ’em we’re survivors

Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long (All night long, yeah, yeah)
If you’re going my way
I wanna drive it all night long

Gimme, gimme, gimme,
Gimme, gimme, yeah

Life is a highway (Life is a highway)
I wanna ride it all night long (ooh. yeah)
If you’re going my way (If you’re going my way)
I wanna drive it all night long (All night long, yeah. Come on)

Gimme, gimme, gimme,
Gimme, gimme, gimme, yeah

Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
(Yeah, I wanna drive it all night long, baby)
If you’re going my way (If you’re going my way)
I wanna drive it all night long (All night long. )

Жизнь как дорога, по которой ты путешествуешь,
Когда один день ты здесь, а на следующий уже ушел.
Иногда ты поворачиваешь, иногда ты стоишь,
Иногда ты поворачиваешься спиной к ветру.

За каждой затемненной дверью есть мир,
Где печаль больше не будет преследовать тебя,
Где храбрые являются свободными, а влюбленные взлетают.
Пойдем со мной на далекий берег.

Мы не будем колебаться,
Сломаем ворота сада,
Сегодня осталось не так много времени.

Жизнь – это шоссе,
Я хочу ехать по нему всю ночь.
Если тебе по пути,
Я хочу вести всю ночь.

Через все эти большие города и все эти маленькие городки,
Это в моей крови и вокруг.
Я люблю тебя сейчас так, как любил тогда,
Это дорога и эти руки.

Из Мозамбика к ночному Мемфису,
От Хайберского прохода к Ванкуверским огням.
Сбей меня и снова верни на место,
Ты в моей крови, я не одинокий человек.

Нет груза, которого я не смогу удержать,
Дорога такая неровная, я знаю это.
Я буду там, когда загорится свет,
Лишь расскажи им, что мы выживем.

Жизнь – это шоссе,
Я хочу ехать по нему всю ночь.
Если тебе по пути,
Я хочу вести всю ночь.

Давай, давай, давай, давай, да.

Жизнь – это шоссе,
Я хочу ехать по нему всю ночь.
Если тебе по пути,
Я хочу вести всю ночь.

Между тобой и мной было расстояние,
Одно недоразумение,
Но теперь мы смотрим прямо в глаза.

Нет груза, которого я не смогу удержать,
Дорога такая неровная, я знаю это.
Я буду там, когда загорится свет,
Лишь расскажи им, что мы выживем.

Жизнь – это шоссе,
Я хочу ехать по нему всю ночь. (Всю ночь, да, да)
Если тебе по пути,
Я хочу вести всю ночь.

Давай, давай, давай,
Давай, давай, да.

Жизнь – это шоссе, (Жизнь – это шоссе)
Я хочу ехать по нему всю ночь. (оу-у. да)
Если тебе по пути, (Если тебе по пути)
Я хочу вести всю ночь. (Всю ночь, да. Продолжай)

Давай, давай, давай,
Давай, давай, давай, да.

Жизнь – это шоссе,
Я хочу ехать по нему всю ночь.
(Да, я хочу ехать по нему всю ночь, милая)
Если тебе по пути, (Если тебе по пути)
Я хочу вести всю ночь. (Всю ночь. )

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Google Play Achievements for Life Is A Game

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Life is a game. This is your strategy guide

Real life is the game that – literally – everyone is playing. But it can be tough. This is your guide.

Basics

Most importantly, successful players put their time into the right things. Later in the game money comes into play, but your top priority should always be mastering where your time goes.

Childhood

Life begins when you’re assigned a random character and circumstances:

The first 15 years or so of life are just tutorial missions, which suck. There’s no way to skip these.

Young adult stage

As a young player, you’ll have lots of time and energy, but almost no experience. You’ll find most things – like the best jobs, possessions and partners – are locked until you get some.

This is the time to level up your skills quickly. You will never have so much time and energy again.

Now that you’re playing properly, your top priority is to assign your time as well as possible. Every single thing you do affects your state and your skills:

This may sound simple, but the problem is you won’t always know what tasks to choose, and your body won’t always obey your commands. Let’s break it down.

How to obey your own commands

Many players find that when they choose to do something – say “go to the gym” – their body ignores them completely.

This is not a bug. Everybody has a state, which you can’t see directly, but looks something like this:

If your state gets too low in one area, your body will disobey your own instructions until your needs are met. Try studying when you’re exhausted and hungry, and watch your concentration switch to Twitter.

Your willpower level is especially important. Willpower fades throughout the day, and is replenished slightly by eating, and completely by a good night’s sleep. When your willpower is low, you are only able to do things you really want to.

Every decision you have to make costs willpower, and decisions where you have to suppress an appealing option for a less appealing one (e.g. exercise instead of watch TV) require a lot of willpower.

There are various tricks to keep your behaviour in line:

A key part of playing the game is balancing your competing priorities with the state of your body. Just don’t leave yourself on autopilot, or you’ll never get anything done.

Choosing the right tasks

Choosing the right tasks at the right time is most of the game. Some tasks mostly affect your state, e.g.

Others mostly affect your skills:

You need to put time into things that ensure a healthy state – like food and sleep – to keep your willpower high. And then you need to develop your skills with what you have left.

Some skills are more valuable than others. Good ones can open up whole paths like a tech tree:

Others are dead ends:

Combinations of skills are the most effective. It’s very hard to max out one skill to be the best – in fact, that’s often impossible. But it’s much easier to get pretty decent at lots of related skills that amount to something bigger, e.g.

See how psychology just helped you become both rich and attractive? You should study that.

Where you live

Your environment has a constant impact on your stats, skills, and your chances of levelling up.

It’s possible to play the game well almost anywhere, but it’s a lot easier in certain places. If you’re female and in the wrong country, for example, you can’t unlock many achievements.

The odds of anyone being born in their optimal location are virtually zero, so research your options, and consider moving early. Location is a multiplier to all of your skills and states.

Finding a partner

Attraction is a complex mini-game in itself, but mostly a byproduct of how you’re already playing. If you have excellent state and high skills, you’re far more attractive already. A tired, irritable, unskilled player is not appealing, and probably shouldn’t be looking for a relationship.

Early in the game it can be common to reject and be rejected by other players. This is normal, but unfortunately it can drain your state, as most players don’t handle rejection or rejecting well. You’ll need to expend willpower to keep going, and willpower is replenished by sleep, so give it time.

80% of finding someone comes down to being your most attractive self, which – like so much in life – just means putting your time in the right places. If you’re exercising, socialising, well nourished and growing in your career, you will radiate attraction automatically. The remaining 20% is simply putting yourself in places where you can meet the right people.

Money money money

Later in the game you’ll have to manage a new resource called ‘money’. Most players will find money increases throughout the early game, but that this actually introduces more problems, not less.

The most important rule of money is never to borrow it, except for things that earn you more back. For example, education or a mortgage can be worthwhile (but are not necessarily so, depending on the education or the mortgage). Borrowing to buy new shoes is not.

Depending on your financial ambitions, here are a few strategies to bear in mind:

Later life

Your options change as the game progresses. Marriage and children will reduce your time and energy, and introduce more random elements into the game (“Emergency diaper change!”). This makes it harder to develop yourself as quickly.

Older characters usually have more skills, resources and experience, unlocking quests that were previously impossible, like “owning a house”, or “writing a (good) novel”.

All players die after about 29,000 days, or 80 years. If your stats and skills are good, you might last a little longer. There is no cheat code to extend this.

At the start of the game, you had no control over who you were or your environment. By the end of the game that becomes true again. Your past decisions drastically shape where you end up, and if you’re happy, healthy, fulfilled – or not – in your final days there’s far less you can do about it.

That’s why your strategy is important. Because by the time most of us have figured life out, we’ve used up too much of the best parts.

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Текст песни Life Is a Hard Game to Play (Mikael Erlandsson) с переводом

Sometimes I wonder what am I doing here?

Maybe I’m lost but lately don’t see things so clear

It’s how we end up tonight

We both don’t wanna start a fight

But there’s something in your mind or mine

That just won’t disappear

You have a way with words though I really don’t understand

Sometimes you call me names like I was just another man

But I really wanna know tonight

Are we really gonna have a fight

Let’s put it all behind us now

Let us be as we were one this time

Now what do you say?

Life is a hard game to play

Somedays when the bad things struggle

With the good things in our lifes

Just like the pain we hide behind a friendly smile

I don’t know what I’m gonna do

Better wait until you make your move

Let’s try to make some peace tonight

Can we do it please, can we do it?

Now what do you say?

Life is a hard game to play, yeah

Sometimes I wonder what am I doing here?

Maybe I’m lost but lately don’t see things so clear

It’s how we end up tonight

We both don’t wanna start a fight

But there’s something in your mind or mine

That just won’t disappear

Now what do you say?

Life is a hard game to play

Now, now what do you say?

Life is a hard game to play

Перевод песни Life Is a Hard Game to Play

Иногда мне интересно, что я здесь делаю?

Может быть, я потерян, но в последнее время не вижу все так ясно.

Так мы закончим сегодня ночью.

Мы оба не хотим ссориться,

Но в твоей или моей голове есть что-

То, что просто не исчезнет.

Ты умеешь говорить словами, хотя я правда не понимаю,

Иногда ты называешь меня по имени, как будто я был просто другим человеком,

Но я действительно хочу знать Сегодня вечером.

Неужели мы действительно будем ссориться?

Давай оставим все позади.

Позволь нам быть такими, какими мы были на этот раз,

Теперь я хочу остаться,

Что ты теперь скажешь?

Что-то происходит, когда плохие вещи борются

С хорошими вещами в нашей жизни,

Так же, как боль, которую мы прячем за дружелюбной улыбкой.

Я не знаю, что мне делать.

Лучше подождать, пока ты не сделаешь свой ход.

Давай попробуем помириться этой ночью.

Мы можем сделать это, пожалуйста, мы можем сделать это?

Теперь я хочу остаться,

Что ты теперь скажешь?

Жизнь-тяжелая игра, да.

Иногда мне интересно, что я здесь делаю?

Может быть, я потерян, но в последнее время не вижу все так ясно.

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life is a game, play it well

Life is a game that deserves full effort.

Play it well to get the rewards.

Sometimes we win and sometimes we lose but how we play will help determine the results.

We always have a chance to play again and with practice we get better. Practice at life and you become better at it. Maybe today’s score is not so good. It isn’t always like that. A win is sweet, a loss can be hard but is a stepping stone in life.

Sure, it leaves a bitter taste when we lose, but learning from our mistakes makes us a better player. Look at what works and what doesn’t work and correct your actions.

Insanity; doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the same results. ` Albert Einstein

You get chances in life to play again. Play well each time and eventually you will win. Learn to accept your defeat graciously and move on to the next stage. Your happiness and success is determined by your reactions to each move. If you don’t know what to do next, read up on it. follow the experts, mimic someone that plays well, master your game.

It’s never too late.

There is a new game every day. Make your move now!

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Текст песни Nas & Cordae & Freddie Gibbs — Life is Like a Dice Game

Перевод песни

Yo, yeah
It’s that— (Hit-Boy)
It’s that—
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
It’s the N-A-S, yes

I wake up every morning, thinkin’ what we gonna do today?
(What we gonna do today?)
There’s gotta be a better way (Gotta be a better way)
To maintain is the price of fame, life is like a dice game
To maintain is the price of fame, life is like a dice game
To maintain in the p— check me out, listen, uh

I wake up every morning, thinkin’ what I’m bout to do today?
(What I’m bout to do today?)
There’s gotta be a better way-ay
To maintain the price of fame, life is like a dice game
Hey hey hey, life is like a dice game (Yeah, yeah)
Hey hey, hey hey hey hey (You know what I’m sayin’?)

You know what I’m sayin’, life is like a—
You know what I’m sayin’, a dice game
But, you know I’m sayin’
I, you know I don’t gamble, you dig what I’m sayin’?
I’d rather spend my money on stuff, you know
That-that-that-that pleasures me, my pleasure, you know?

So I wake up every morning, thinkin’ what I’m gonna do today?
(Do today?)
There’s gotta be a better way
To keep changing the price of cane, life is like a dice game
I wake up, hit the collar, think of getting something new today (Something new today)
Paint the Aston Martin blue today
These niggas trippin’ so I ride with that thing, life is like a dice game
I wake up every morning, thinkin’ what we gonna do today?
(What we gonna do today?)
There’s gotta be a better way (Gotta be a better way)
To maintain is the price of fame, life is like a dice game
To maintain is the price of fame, life is like a dice game
Yeah

I wake up every morning, thinkin’ what we gonna do today?
(What we gonna do today?)
There’s gotta be a better way
To maintain is the price of fame, life is like a dice game (Yeah)
To maintain is the price of fame, life is like a dice game
Life is like a dice game

Йоу, да
Дело в том, что … (Парень-Убийца)
Дело в том, что—
Да, да, да
Да, да
Это Н-А-С, да

Я просыпаюсь каждое утро, думая, что мы будем делать сегодня?
(Что мы будем делать сегодня?)
Должен быть лучший способ (Должен быть лучший способ)
Поддерживать — это цена славы, жизнь похожа на игру в кости
Поддерживать — это цена славы, жизнь похожа на игру в кости
Для поддержания в п— проверьте меня, послушайте, э-э

Жизнь — азартная игра, хотя ставки повышены, я справлюсь
Любой тьмы, которая пытается проникнуть, моего света достаточно
Подай правильный пример, мои темные сны божественны.
Я живу жизнью на этой земле, чтобы выполнить то, что мне поручено
Моя миссия дана, я родился в тот же год, когда Это было Написано
Я был быстр до прерывистости, чтобы укрепить свою интуицию
Но, черт возьми, и иногда, черт возьми, тебе не везет
Но как мои кости перекатываются от Домино к Мастро
К достижению жизненных целей? Моя цена зашкаливает
Как только я решил никогда больше не заблуждаться
Я знаю ниггеров, которым предъявлены обвинения из того дерьма, в котором они признались
С лучшими друзьями, пока они не увидели статью, которую мы пишем.
Жизнь-сука, разобщенность-цена блаженства.
Хотя восторг часто оставляет пути праведности
Признаюсь, ниггер проснулся с чувством блаженства
Никакого стресса со свободой самовыражения, но ты был мертв

Я просыпаюсь каждое утро, думая о том, что я собираюсь сделать сегодня?
(Что я собираюсь сделать сегодня?)
Должен быть лучший способ-да
Чтобы сохранить цену славы, жизнь похожа на игру в кости
Эй, эй, эй, жизнь похожа на игру в кости (Да, да)
Эй, эй, эй, эй, эй, эй (Ты понимаешь, о чем я говорю?)

Ты знаешь, о чем я говорю, жизнь похожа на—
Ты знаешь, о чем я говорю, игра в кости
Но, ты же знаешь, я говорю
Я, ты же знаешь, что я не играю в азартные игры, ты понимаешь, о чем я говорю?
Я бы предпочел потратить свои деньги на всякую ерунду, ты же знаешь
Это-это-это-это доставляет мне удовольствие, мое удовольствие, понимаешь?

Ниггер, мы начинали, сто пятьдесят мешков по десять центов в мамином доме.
Зарабатываю пятьсот в неделю, подумываю о том, чтобы бросить учебу.
Продавал наркотики на глазах у моего брата, но теперь он врач
К черту это дерьмо с травой, гранд, покажи мне, что это за рок (Скррт)
Банда хлыстов, у меня есть пунктик по приготовлению крэковой гривы
Гребаный дубль и каракули, я возвращаю гриву.
Федералы с налоговым управлением на меня, они послали налоговую гриву
Уличный кодекс, нет ничего беспощаднее рэп-игры (рэп-игры).
Ты хочешь быть в этом, хочешь грешить?
К черту ниггеров, которые хотят побеждать!
Я сказал, к черту быть знаменитым с самого начала
Большой Кролик, Instagram хочет запретить мне публиковать фотографии

Итак, я просыпаюсь каждое утро, думая о том, что я собираюсь делать сегодня?
(Сделать сегодня?)
Должен быть лучший способ
Чтобы постоянно менять цену на трость, жизнь похожа на игру в кости
Я просыпаюсь, надеваю ошейник, думаю о том, чтобы сегодня получить что-то новое (Что-то новое сегодня).
Покрасьте сегодня Aston Martin в синий цвет
Эти ниггеры спотыкаются, так что я езжу с этой штукой, жизнь похожа на игру в кости.
Я просыпаюсь каждое утро, думая, что мы будем делать сегодня?
(Что мы будем делать сегодня?)
Должен быть лучший способ (Должен быть лучший способ)
Поддерживать — это цена славы, жизнь похожа на игру в кости
Поддерживать — это цена славы, жизнь похожа на игру в кости
Да

Я никогда не бью брата, я против тюрьмы по-настоящему
Плавный криминальный навык, заключенный в щит из человеческой плоти
Наблюдаю, как ниггеры богатеют рядом со мной.
Толкаю 5 Б-У, я на пассажирском сиденье.
Но я вижу себя Хайле Селассие в моем королевстве
Потягиваю Асти Шампанское, плыву по течению, реальность вступает в свои права.
Мне нужны папики, чтобы начать щелкать, у меня есть связь в Ричмонде
И каждый ниггер в семье будет участвовать
Это происходит, слово-это связь
Это мое имя, Большой Нас, мудрый, чтобы цивилизоваться
Из Северного полушария Земли
Мир моему сыну и спасибо рождению Судьбы, так ее зовут.
Это продолжается, ты знаешь мое имя.
Большой Nas в доме, вы все, на кончике фристайла
Когда я закончу это дерьмо, оно обязательно станет хитом
Эта оригинальная запись попала на улицу в 93-м году
Была просто утечка, куплет был неполным, восстановлен ритм
Так что мы можем облажаться на улице
Вернемся в будущее, залатаем ляпы
Сопоставьте каденцию с задним днем, черт возьми
Взрыв, когда противный Нас был более сообразителен, не притворяйся удивленным
Это не для рекламы или показухи, я взрываюсь за свое
Жизнь — это бросок костей, на земле есть деньги.
То, что должно произойти, должно произойти, — это азартная игра повсюду.

Я просыпаюсь каждое утро, думая, что мы будем делать сегодня?
(Что мы будем делать сегодня?)
Должен быть лучший способ
Поддерживать — это цена славы, жизнь похожа на игру в кости (Да)
Поддерживать — это цена славы, жизнь похожа на игру в кости
Жизнь похожа на игру в кости

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Помогите плз! перевод (Quotable Quote) смотрим^

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.”

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Жизнь есть возможность, извлечь из этого пользу.
Жизнь это красота, восхищаться ею.
Жизнь есть сон, реализовать его.
Жизнь это вызов, встретиться с ней.
Жизнь есть долг, завершить его.
Жизнь это игра, в нее играть.
Жизнь есть обещание, исполнить ее.
Жизнь есть печаль, преодолеть его.
Жизнь есть песня, петь.
Жизнь есть борьба, примите его.
Жизнь есть трагедия, борьбы с ним.
Жизнь это приключение, смел его.
Жизнь есть удача, сделать это.
Жизнь слишком драгоценна, не разрушают его.
Жизнь есть жизнь, бороться за нее. «

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Играйте в Life is a Game на ПК с помощью GaemLoop

Life is a Game : Women’s Life On Pc

Life is a Game : Women’s Life, coming from the DAERISOFT, is running on Android systerm in the past.

Now, You can play Life is a Game : Women’s Life on PC with Gameloop smoothly.

Download it in the Gameloop library or search results. No more eyeing the battery or frustrating calls at the wrong time any more.

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Life is a Game : Women’s Life Introduction

Thanks to many players’ suggestions, the female main character is now available to play.

Play now to start a new life as a woman.

How will you remember the life of a mother?

Find another way to enjoy the Coffin Dance.

This game is inspired by the saying “life is a marathon”.

This is a new type of game with a combination of a running and simulation gameplay

to play and look back on your life with a special reminiscence system.

Additionally, it’s a game with an emotional mood with its touching stories and pixel art.

Listen to the laughter of children in the children’s room.

You will feel calm.

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■■■■■Game Introduction■■■■■

‘Life is a Game’ is a running game.

Your life and appearance changes based on the type and

amount of coins you obtain, and the choices you make using

the Choice button throughout the game.

For example, if you painted a lot when you were a child,

your character develops into an artistic teenager and shows

their talents in art. If they play a musical instrument, there

is a higher chance that your character develops into a singer.

Also, you need to take care of your happiness and the relationships

you have with other people.

Experience the numerous ending scenes that change based on all of

the decisions you make as a baby, as a child, as a teenager, as a man

in his prime and as an elder.

*Tip : Adequately make use of the skills on the lower left.

Some items purchased from the shop only show up in certain situations,

so don’t be alarmed and look for it in the game.

Как играть в Life is a Game с GameLoop на ПК

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Life as a Game

We all use metaphors in our methods of describing and evaluating life. Life is such an abstract and all-encompassing concept that people use analogies to similar systems in order to draw relationships and comparisons. Metaphors and analogies are our ways of breaking down abstract concepts. Anecdotes and metaphors are humans primary method of understanding.

Consider understanding complex systems in physics. Einstein proposed that space and time form an intricate four dimensional platform he called spacetime. Unfortunately picturing four dimensional surfaces is beyond our ability, so in order to picture this concept scientists used a metaphor of a fabric. Viewing space as being a two dimensional fabric it was easier to picture how objects could stretch or depress this fabric in three dimensions. The metaphor of fabric to represent space allows us to understand it.

We all use metaphors in a similar way when describing systems in life. One of my major motivations for creating an interactive goal-setting program was to have the program serve as a metaphor for the goal setting process. By making abstract concepts like goals and deadlines tangible, it is easier to draw relationships to them. Using a metaphor makes it easier to understand the system you are discussing.

Of all the systems we use metaphors for, our metaphors for life itself are probably the most critical. How you view life is crucial to your ability to function within it. Everybody has metaphors for how they view life, and these metaphors determine how they behave and feel. Some people view life as a war, a constant battle where you have to fight to survive. Other people view life as a mission with a specific purpose of which your experience is only a vessel. Some people view life as a gift, a precious resource never to be squandered.

I have used various metaphors for describing life, but there is one metaphor that I find particularly useful. This metaphor is in viewing life as a game. Although a metaphor can never be a perfect representation of the concept, for example viewing spacetime as a fabric may lead one to believe it is made up of a substance or matter. Similarly, viewing life as a game has some pitfalls, which I will discuss, but I use it often because it has really helped me operate successfully.

Challenges

How often do you here someone gripe about how they could only be happy if they didn’t have all these problems. These are the same people that complain and excuse about how they can’t succeed or feel any satisfaction because of a whole host of external circumstances. Other people take a slightly more positive view and see challenges and obstacles as simply being deterrents to an otherwise happy life.

When you view life as a game, however, challenges and problems take a whole new context. The only reason you play a game is to feel some sense of challenge, some sense of struggle. The only reason a game is fun is because it causes you to engage yourself in it. Whether this be poker, Scrabble or a video game, games are only fun when they challenge you. Remove all the challenges in a game and it becomes a pointless activity.

Adopt a new attitude. Challenges and problems aren’t deterrents to living a happy and fulfilled life, they are the cause of them. Don’t complain about how difficult or impossible your challenges are. Bask in the realization that these challenges are the entire reason you are playing the game of life. Without these challenges life would be a dull, pointless activity. Zig Ziglar put it best, “Happiness is not pleasure. Happiness is victory.”

With this metaphor in hand does this mean I never get stressed or frustrated and irritated with the problems I have? Of course, because that is just the kind of person I am… Hardly. Just as in a very difficult game, some problems will make you frustrated, stressed and bothered. But at these times you can come back to your metaphor of challenges and problems as being the reason life is fulfilling and joyful. By coming back to viewing life as a game, it is easier to not let temporary frustrations become depressing and overwhelming problems.

By adopting this view of life you will also take a completely different approach to how you handle problems and challenges. Instead of trying to avoid them entirely, you will push yourself to encounter them. This doesn’t mean you have to unnecessarily create problems, but that you will not avoid opportunities simply because they might possess them. If you are afraid of public speaking, that isn’t a limitation, it is an incredible opportunity. If you are overweight and unhealthy this also represents an amazing opportunity to overcome challenges. Taking on your own business and leaving a job you hate may have problems but those problems will ultimately give you a great sense of victory and accomplishment.

What I am really trying to say is that growth is what you are really after. By viewing the game of life as a wonderful and challenging experience you will understand that fun, happiness and fulfillment only come when you are growing, improving and expanding. Don’t run away from challenges, absorb your challenges and make them a part of you. Be grateful that life has given you these experiences to make life worth living.

Rules

Another simile that can be used when drawing analogies to a game is that all games are based on rules. Life is also based on rules. Do most people act as if life is based off a series of logical and common sense rules? No, most people act as if life guided by fate and a capricious storyteller who has set artificial barriers to their success. Worse many people act as if these rules could not be discovered or made evident in their life. They act as if life were completely out of their control, guided by forces they could neither comprehend, nor deal with.

Life operates from a series of logical rules. By understanding these basic rules that guide our life we can utilize them to achieve anything we want. Some of these rules are pretty obvious, while others require more uncovering. By spending time studying and recognizing the rules of the game in life we can become excellent at it. Being rational in our study of life can allow us to fully understand the rules of life without injecting into it all of our negative or overly hopeful biases.

One of the key rules to life is the law of cause and effect. For every effect there is a determinable cause. By understanding this force that operates throughout the universe we can utilize it to our advantage. Instead of saying that luck and circumstance are guiding our life, we can take a look at what is causing our current experience of life and change it. Without understanding the rules of the game, it is impossible to be successful at it.

Many people when they find a law about the universe they don’t like they either pretend it is not there or curse the universe for containing it. Unfortunately, this methodology always comes back to get you. By ignoring the laws of the life and the universe you are unable to act effectively in it. Similarly, by understanding the underlying mechanics of the game you can master it.

Focus on the Journey

If there is one important lesson that describing life as a game can provide, it is to focus on the journey and not the destination. Why do we play games? So we can have entertainment, challenge ourselves or spend time with friends. In essence, it is the experience of playing we are after, never the product of playing the game. I believe very strongly in living in the current moment, of experiencing life now.

Some people take the view that the point of a game is to win. In this case I strongly disagree, and I use it to serve my point here. The point of a game is never to win, but only to gain the experiences you would have after winning. Although I feel this is an important experience, the best games I have ever played were when I was deeply absorbed in playing and winning or losing was merely a direction, never the purpose.

People take similar stances to life. You see people who work really hard and put their nose to the grindstone to become ‘successful’. All the while these people point out that they are working hard to become successful so they can be happy later. By investing all their thoughts into an imaginary future they are distancing themselves with reality. The past and the future only exist so much as you focus on them. The notion of past and future is completely alien to the physical universe. As physicists continually point out, there is no physical marker on the universe that shows time is flowing. Focusing on the future and past in excess deprives your ability to live fully.

Again this is where I feel viewing life as a game has benefits. Every game has an overarching purpose. For poker it is to win all the chips. For a crossword puzzle it is to fill in the answer to every clue. For chess it is to put the opponents king in checkmate. This purpose directs your actions so you don’t do foolish things simply for the experience. By having a stronger sense of purpose for your own life you can ensure that the actions you have will be beneficial and supportive, but still focus on the journey of life. This journey may involve pain and sacrifice, but so long as your remember that challenges make life worth living, and those challenges contribute to your purpose, the journey will be worthwhile.

Fallacies of a Game Metaphor

I’ve pointed out three strong benefits to viewing life as a game, but this certainly isn’t the only metaphor you could use and it does have limitations. By exposing the limitations in your metaphors you can ensure that you are flexible in their usage. A few limitations of a game metaphor are:

Life is Frivolous – Some people draw the connection that games are frivolous so they would view a life as a game metaphor as being disrespectful to the immense importance of life. I agree with this fallacy and I believe life is immensely important. I do, however, feel that this also can be used to point out that life should be about joy and fun as much as it is about purpose.

Life is Win or Lose – Because games generally have win or lose conditions, I also find this connection to be inaccurate. Life doesn’t win or lose. Some newer games are being based less on this black and white principle, so I believe that they could serve as better metaphors. In order to win or lose you must examine something outside of its context. Speculating on whether you will be able to weigh your life as a win or loss after you have died is a waste of your energies here on earth. Focus on doing your best, but understand that there are no black and white qualifiers for our experiences here.

The metaphors we use to describe life will decide how we behave and feel within it. Viewing life as a game can be incredibly freeing in seeing all our obstacles and problems as adding to the experience. By understanding that the game of life operates from a common sense set of rules we can understand these rules then utilize them to our effectiveness. Finally, by understanding that the game of life is about experiencing the journey with a purpose we can be successful and happy. Viewing life as a game isn’t without its fallacies, but you may want to try this perspective to see if it improves your own quality of experience.

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«Player Of Games» lyrics

Grimes Lyrics

Baby
Would you still love me
Out on Europa
Or will you forget?

Baby
How can I compare
To the adventure out there?

Sail away
To the cold expanse of space
Even love
Couldn’t keep you in your place
But can’t you love me like that?
Can’t you need me like that?

If I loved him any less
I’d make him stay
But he has to be the best
Player of games
If I loved you any less
I’d make you stay
Player of games
Player of games

Player of games
Player of games
Player of games
Player of games

I’m in love with the greatest gamer
But he’ll always love the game
More than he loves me

Sail away
To the cold expanse of space
Even love
Couldn’t keep you in your place
But can’t you love me like that?
Can’t you need me like that?

If I loved him any less
I’d make him stay
But he has to be the best
Player of games
If I loved him any less
I’d make him stay
Player of games
Player of games

Player of games
Player of games
Player of games
Player of games

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Взломанный Life is a Game

Увлекательный аркадный платформер, в котором вы должны прожить жизнь человека от самого рождения до смерти. Вы сможете участвовать во всех этапах его жизни и от ваших принятых решений будет зависеть как сложиться его жизнь.

Геймплей

В начале игры вы будете играть маленьким ребёнком, который будет пытаться схватить бутылочку с молоком и другие предметы.

А именно, сколько игровой валюты он накопит, кем станет и как сложиться его дальнейшая жизнь. Вам предстоит решить какую профессию ему выбрать и как будет развиваться его карьера. Можете решать на какой девушке он женится, каким супругом он будет, а также каким отцом для детей он станет.

Система управления

В правом нижнем углу у вас будут отображаться две кнопки, с помощью которых вы будете принимать решения и совершать прыжки, чтобы собирать монетки и различные предметы, что будут находиться на вашем пути.

В левом нижнем углу у вас будут отображаться три кнопки, «Семья», «Друг» и «Хобби», с помощью которых вы сможете обратить внимание на здоровье героя и его отношение с семьей и друзьями.

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Life is a game

In the Quran, Allah likewise says: ‘We didn’t create the heavens and the earth, and all that is between, for mere play.’The Islamic apologist Hamza Andreas Tzortzis writes: ‘believing life is just a game equals no ultimate purpose and value. Not only does it make life ludicrous but it also represents a very bleak outlook on our existence.’

ludicrous: early 17th century (in the sense ‘sportive, intended as a jest’): from Latin ludicrus (probably from ludicrum ‘stage play’)

So does treating life like a game necessarily empty it of meaning and moral value? It depends what game you’re playing.

I’ve found myself thinking this more and more over the last couple of years, and I’m not sure if it’s healthy or not.

I felt it again when I went to India last year. I hadn’t been back-packing for two decades, and I was a little nervous. The first place I stayed was a beach in Goa called Patnem, where nothing much happened. I thought about walking to another beach one night, to watch some fireworks. My nerves told me not to go, that it might be dangerous (what a chicken), but I went anyway, and as I walked into Palolem, I imagined a digital voice saying ‘New level unlocked: Palolem’. And I walked in wonder among the bongo-playing hippies and children throwing firecrackers, enjoying this new level.

I guess I was inspired by Westworld, which I’d been watching the month before. It’s about a fake Wild West world filled with AI cowboys and Indians, who let the visiting tourists act out their wildest fantasies without legal consequences (it was Charles Dickens, in 1838, who first had the idea for a theme-park populated by robots so humans could act out their murderous appetites). In Westworld, tourists can either stay near the centre, where the action is pretty tame, or they can go on missions further out. ‘The further out you venture, the more intense the experience gets’.

Is it unhealthy, this tendency to view life as a virtual reality game?

Something similar happened to Timothy Leary the first time he took LSD. He became lost in a reality where everything seemed fake and everyone seemed like plastic dolls. It was all just a rather shoddy cosmic play, which he had seen through. He wrote about it in The Psychedelic Experience, suggesting it was a phase people often go through on psychedelics:

We are little more than flickers on a multidimensional television screen…You feel ultimately tricked. A victim of the great television producer. The people are you are lifeless robots…You are a helpless marionette, a plastic doll in a plastic world. ‘I am dead. I will never live and feel again’.

Luckily, the delusion wore off for me after five days or so, once I’d come back to the UK and surrounded myself with people I loved. But I still feel a sort of detachment and dissociation from life, that is, from the usual games people play in this life. I can’t take them entirely seriously. I mean career games particularly, the sort of quest for ego-gratification that is totally absorbing in ones 20s and 30s. I can’t take those games that seriously.

Sometimes this loss of interest in my previous games means this life seems a bit ludicrous, and I almost fall drawn to death. I don’t mean in a suicidal or depressive way. I just think…death is where the mystery is. Between the levels. What is happening there? But sometimes this detachment and dissociation means I can calm down, take a breath, not get so absorbed in the trivial stuff, and just look around and enjoy the beauty and pathos of this game-world.

I’ll end with a quote from Ram Dass, Leary’s former colleague, who often uses the ‘life is a game / dream’ metaphor:

If you know you’re dreaming, can you continue to dream? That’s what the soul does – the soul appreciates that it’s a dream and that it contains the ego. If you push away the ego, if you cultivate an aversion to that dream, you’re never going to be free because there will be an attachment. The process is realizing that you and I exist on more than one plane of awareness simultaneously and on one plane suffering stinks, and on another plane suffering is grace. The question is, “Can you balance those two things in your consciousness?”

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Кто круче?

Slowing down not feeling right
Suffer from this emty sights
Hiding every shiny peace of u
Don’t u ever be so shy
Try to create a brand new sky

Cause life is just a game a cruel game
We are playing
U&Me
U&&&&Me
Rebuilding all these memories
Rebuilding all these destenies
Cause this is just a game
This is just a game
i clame

And even when the ‘ whole world is falling down
When the sunrise doesn’t wake u up
doesn’t make u blind
doesn’t make u feel warm
I will stand up and fight for u
Not wasting time
But it’s up to u to decide how to act and what to do
Believe or not it’s u who don’t let u move foward
Who don’t let u cry and laugh
oh i’m not willy strong enough to make u take a stand
So here u are-u better hold my hand

Замедление не чувствует право
Страдают от этого Пустой достопримечательностей
Скрытие каждый блестящий мир U
Не у когда-либо быть настолько застенчивы
Попробуйте создать новый небо

Причина жизнь только игра жестокая игра
Мы играем
U & Amp; Me
U & Amp; & Amp; & Amp; & Amp; мне
Восстановление все эти воспоминания
Восстановление всех этих destenies
Потому что все это игра
Это просто игра
я clame

Влево или вправо
Вода-камень
Черный или белый
Имейте в виду свои собственные стереотипы
Теперь о трагедии
Не боритесь не бороться
U, пусть исчезнет
не бойся
потерять свою ненависть

И даже тогда, когда «весь мир падает
Когда рассвет не разбудить U до
не сделать и слепой
не сделать и почувствовать тепло
Я буду стоять и бороться за U
Не теряя времени,
Но это до U, чтобы решить, как действовать и что делать
Поверьте это или нет сборная U, которые не пусть и двигаться перемещение вперед
Кто не пусть и плакать и смеяться
О, я не волей достаточно сильны, чтобы сделать и занять позицию
Так вот у ARE-U лучше держать меня за руку

Причина жизнь только игра жестокая игра
Мы играем
U & Amp; Me
U & Amp; & Amp; & Amp; & Amp; мне
Восстановление все эти воспоминания
Восстановление всех этих destenies

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Life Is a Video Game—Here Are the Cheat Codes

Welcome, Player One, to a strategy guide for the game known as Life.

W elcome, Player One, to a strategy guide for the game known as Life.

As you’ve undoubtedly discovered, the game of Life is often quite difficult. You will face unexpected challenges and long periods of frustration. You will often struggle with self-doubt, feel overwhelmed by helplessness and loss, and sometimes take a shit when you’re out of toilet paper.

Yes, Life is hard, as the saying goes.

But fear not, this short guide is designed to help you complete your missions and complete the game at the highest possible level.

HOW TO WIN AT LIFE

The goal of Life is simple: it is to Level Up as much as possible. Each Level in life presents a particular challenge that you must overcome. Once you overcome that challenge, you get to move on to the next Level. The goal is to complete as many levels as possible. At the end of the game, the person at the highest level gets to have the best funeral.

There are five levels in life:

Level 1 just means you’re not homeless and/or starving. This is a prerequisite for just about everything else. Chances are, if you’re stuck on Level 1, you aren’t even reading this right now.

Level 2 gets a bit more complicated, because a lot of people do have a nice bed to sleep in every night, but they can’t sleep because of gunshots outside or bombs exploding over their city, or maybe Dad’s a drunk and keeps trying to set the house on fire.

None of these things are cool. Level 2 requires that you find a secure and stable home to base yourself out of. Getting past Level 2 requires finding a way to successfully remove yourself from these dangerous situations.

Level 3 means relationships, finding the right people to love and the right people who love you.

This sounds way easier and more fun than it is. Mainly because, as you’ve likely found out by now, most people suck.

Navigating to the ones who don’t is a whole tricky matter that I’ll get to in a bit.

Level 4 means building up some skill or knowledge or ability that adds value to the world around you and also makes you feel like kind of a badass in the process.

Level 5 just means making sure your life mattered when you’re dead. Good luck with that champ.

Most of us get a nice head start due to our parents. If you’re lucky, your parents will have successfully guided you through Levels 1-3 and even give you a nice boost in achieving Level 4.

If you were raised by wolves, a) congratulations on figuring out how to read, and b) please refrain from chewing on your mobile device.

THE DESIGN OF LIFE

Life is a big and complex game. It’s the largest open-world game known to date. We all begin with different starting stats and we’re placed into a wide range of environments that can either give us advantages or disadvantages.

But because most people have trouble conceptualizing Life, they therefore assume that they have no control over Life. But nothing could be further from the truth.

Life’s game design is actually surprisingly simple. It is guided by a few basic principles that are designed to give the player an experience of a large amount of randomness.

1. Life is designed to continually throw difficult and unexpected problems at you. Life is a never-ending stream of problems that must be confronted, surmounted, and/or solved. If at any point, Life runs out of problems to give us, then as players, we will unconsciously invent problems for ourselves. Problems are what keep us occupied and give our lives meaning and are, therefore, necessary to conquer Levels 4 and 5 (give value and leave a legacy).

As players, we spend most of our time preparing ourselves for problems that are expected. But it is because of this preparation that, by definition, the most difficult problems we experience in Life will be unexpected.

This steady barrage of unexpected problems gives the player a sense that she lacks control over her own Life, when in fact, the purpose of Life is not to control what happens to you, but rather control and choose higher level reactions to what happens to you.

2. Players may respond to problems with either Solutions or Distractions. All players must meet problems with a reaction (even choosing not to react to a problem, is itself, a reaction).

All reactions can be divided up in two ways: Solutions and Distractions.

Solutions are actions and pursuits that resolve a problem preventing it from continuing or happening again in the future. Distractions are actions or pursuits designed to either make the Player unaware of the problem’s existence or to dull the pain the problem may be causing.

If a Player feels they understand a problem and are capable of handling it, they will pursue a Solution. If players are just sick of Life’s shit, then they will likely pursue Distractions to help them pretend the problem isn’t actually there.

3. The more each Solution or Distraction is used, the easier and more automatic it will be in the future. The more often you use a Solution or Distraction, the easier it will be to use again, to the point where it will eventually become unconscious and automatic. Once a Solution or Distraction is unconscious and automatic, it becomes a Habit.

Habits are necessary because they prevent you from falling back to previous Levels you’ve already conquered. A player, once they’ve found a Solution to a Level, must employ that Solution enough times to make it a Habit, thus mastering that level and allowing them to move on to the next Level.

4. Solutions move us towards the next Level, Distractions keep us on the same Level. Since gaining Levels in Life requires solving problems, distracting ourselves from our problems guarantees that we will become stuck on the same Level.

If our Distractions become Habits, then we will become perpetually stuck at a level and not even be conscious of it. If you’ve ever wondered why all of your relationships have failed miserably in the past decade, then chances are your Distraction-Habits are preventing you from achieving the real intimacy necessary to beat Level 3.

5. The formula for winning at the game of Life is therefore actually incredibly simple:

One simple example: There’s a problem at work and my boss hates me, so I can either pursue a Solution (confront my boss, look to be transferred, work harder, etc.) or I can pursue a Distraction (party every night, smoke crack, masturbate while watching Disney cartoons, etc.).

One final note before I teach you how to totally cheat life and get a giant pyramid built for you when you die:

Just because you Level Up doesn’t mean problems stop at previous levels. A bro’s still gotta eat (Level 1). We all need to be safe to accomplish anything (Level 2). Relationships take work (Level 3), yadda, yadda.

So think of Leveling Up as not necessarily going from juggling baseballs to juggling knives. Rather, Leveling Up is like going from juggling three knives to four, then five, and so on.

Below are the five cheat codes to help you navigate your way through Life and reach the end fully satisfied and Leveled-Up.

Entering these cheat codes is easy: just press Tab at the View Screen to access your Mind’s Eye. The Mind’s Eye is where you actively observe yourself and choose what to think about. From there, just type in the cheats below at the “Brain” prompt and hit ENTER.

(Note: These cheats, like Solutions and Distractions, also require repetition to work. So be patient with them. They will also eventually become their own Habits.)

CHEAT #1: I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS

You can always do something about the problems Life gives you.

When you decide that there’s nothing you can do to solve a problem, you immediately limit your possible reactions to Distractions. And if you limit your responses to Distractions enough, pretty soon you will build a Life that is made up of nothing but Habits of Distractions. You’ll be running away from everything, and everyone, all the time. And you’ll probably turn into a grade-A selfish prick at that.

(Another Note: “selfishness” is essentially a propensity for Distractions over Solutions. Since the people around you and your relationships benefit from Solutions and Distractions generally isolate you from others, constantly pursuing Distractions will likely make you into someone no one else wants to really hang around with – unless, that is, they pursue the same Distractions that you do. You know, two peas in a crack-pipe and all that.)

This first “cheat” is so important, I once wrote an article about it called “The Prime Belief” and posted it on Facebook like three whole times. Some people even shared it and it wasn’t just my Mom. Cheat #1 is so important, I dedicated an entire chapter in my book to it. It’s so important that if you passed out drunk at a party, I’d write it on your forehead with a sharpie.

CHEAT #2: WRITE THIS SHIT DOWN

Separating Solutions from Distractions in your life is surprisingly difficult and complicated. This is because we have a tendency to lie to ourselves about our Distractions. We tell ourselves that we need our Distractions. We tell ourselves that our Distractions are just innocent fun. That we totally have them under control, and yeah, maybe I woke up under a bridge in my own vomit, but at least I remembered where I parked the car. See, I am responsible.

But worst of all, sometimes we come to believe that our Distraction is actually a Solution. We think that spending 12 hours a day at the office will give us the loving family we want, that playing violin in the park for spare change is a career waiting to happen.

We can often spend years (or decades) pursuing what we believe will level us up only to discover that we’ve basically been tweaking our nipples for the last 12 years, and while it felt good, we have nothing to show for it.

As such, we all need to develop an ability to observe our own thoughts. Psychologists sometimes call this “metacognition.” In the past, I’ve referred to it as meta-awesomeness. Here, I’m just going to call it “not being a fuckface.”

To observe your own thoughts and not be a fuckface, you need to get your thoughts out in front of you and pretend that they aren’t yours. Only then can you hear how utterly ridiculous they sound.

One common way to do this is to write down your thoughts regularly.

This can be a journal, a blog (how do you think all this stuff started, anyway?), or even letters/emails to friends and family.

The important part is that you are actively digging into the problems in your life and looking at your behavior from a third-person perspective.

Therapy also works in this regard. You go sit on a couch and say a bunch of things to this person who sits there and pretends to care. Then that person says your thoughts back to you, just in a different way. And then you’re like, “Oh wait, that sounds completely irrational. Thanks, Doc.” And then you get screwed over because your health insurance doesn’t cover it.

So, if you’re like the rest of the people in the US and are uninsured, you can accomplish almost as much by simply developing a habit of writing shit down.

Complaining literally accomplishes nothing. Plane late? Taxi ride bumpy? Favorite pizza restaurant ran out of pepperoncini?

Complaining takes a problem and then prolongs it. It takes this experience that is anywhere from a nuisance to legit painful and then turns it into this social entity, and social entities suck because then we feel obligated to stand by them and defend them and make sure everybody understands them AND AGREES WITH US. And then you become that dude who is ADAMANT that this restaurant sucks, and will defend your opinion to the death, even when in truth, you really don’t care that much, and you might even kind of like the place if you hadn’t turned it into this big deal.

People complain not because something sucks. People complain because they’re looking for empathy and to feel connected with those around them.

Unfortunately, complaining is maybe the least useful way to connect with other human beings. It’s like working on your cardio by swimming through raw sewage. Yeah, you’re getting a workout, but uhh, what’s that thing growing on your face?

CHEAT #4: STOP FANTASIZING

Back when I was in college, I went on a Zen retreat, and I remember the zen master, during a Q&A session, suggested trying to stop daydreaming in our daily lives and to let go of fantasizing in general.

I was like 20-years-old at the time, and thus, spent most of my waking hours fantasizing about either a) hot girls, b) rocking out on guitar in front of a bunch of hot girls, or c) throwing really cool parties that would be full of really hot girls.

Needless to say, the zen master’s suggestion destroyed pretty much the only thoughts that gave me any semblance of happiness at the time. I resisted the notion the way a cat resists a bath.

But then I got older, eventually got over the whole obsession-with-hot-girls thing that I think is a requirement for any man seeking even the appearance of maturity, and realized that Ms. Zen master (yes, it was a woman) was right all along.

The human imagination is a powerful thing. And the imagination is a fun thing to play with – it’s what attracts us to books and movies and TV shows that we binge-watch in a single weekend.

But when applied to ourselves, the imagination can become another form of Distraction. It can be a way of avoiding what is real and true for us in the moment, a way to live vicariously through the images and ideas fed to us by others. It’s a way to feel a sense of accomplishment, all while sitting on our couch, alone.

Most recurring fantasies we have about ourselves are reactions to our insecurities.

I would count the number of insecurities going on in this picture, but if I did, I’d have to spend the rest of the article counting.

If you spend years fantasizing about that yacht, then chances are you’ll be the guy who will wreck the rest of his life just to buy it. If you obsessively fantasize about being admired and loved by all, then you will fail to stand up for yourself in those many moments where you’ll need to most.

Fantasies are like any other Distraction – they are to be used sparingly and for nothing other than pure enjoyment. It’s when they begin to sustain your sense of self-worth, your desire for importance in this world, that you will be hobbling yourself, and you will never Level Up again in Life.

CHEAT #5: SHARE YOUR SHAME

I’m about to sum up the biggest problem everyone deals with in the game of Life in one paragraph. Are you ready?

When we’re children, we are genuinely powerless to many of the problems in life. We therefore rely on our parents to help us find Solutions. But the more our parents fail to find Solutions, the more Distractions we must create for ourselves (notice how much children fantasize? That’s not a coincidence) in order to cope with the difficulty of Life. The more Distractions we create for ourselves as children, and/or the more Distractions our parents teach us themselves, the more they will form into Habits that will continue into adulthood. Once adults, we will forget that our Distractions were merely reactions to problems, and we will come to believe that there is something inherently flawed or wrong about us and we must hide it from other people at all costs.

And so, we hide these things about ourselves, and to hide them, we must distract ourselves even further, and it just creates this downward spiral of Distraction and shame.

The best way to get rid of our Distractions and to reclaim the problems that have been haunting us since childhood is to expose them, to share them, and recognize that a) no, you’re not a freak, most people struggle(d) with the same problem, and b) that your Distractions are just that: unhealthy ways to compensate for how shitty you feel about yourself.

There’s an old saying that “sunlight is the best disinfectant.” Well, that’s true for ourselves as well. The only way to cure the darkest parts of yourself is to shine light on them.

Good luck Player One. Remember, the game of Life is designed to be complex and confusing. The difficulty is not winning, but knowing what winning itself means. Because that’s the real challenge: deciding what our own life is worth and then having the courage to go out and live it.

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