I want you to imagine a board game similar to that of
chess but one where hundreds and hundreds of boards
are lined up back to back a game where each move you make is equivalent to a
day's worth of time this is a game with thousands of
possible moves symbolizing the thousands of different
choices you can make every day welcome to the game of life
now the fact of the matter is you are playing this game
whether or not you're aware of it every single day you are either making the
right moves bringing you closer to a happy and
fulfilled life or you are making the wrong moves
getting you further from all this good stuff and closer to
all the pain and suffering that the world has to
offer now i got good news and bad news for you
the good news is that the game of life is a rather long
game most players get to make around 28 000 moves that's about 79 years worth of
moves before the game is over even more good
news is the fact that you don't have to play
perfectly you can make plenty of mistakes and as long as you make more
right than wrong moves you'll still be winning
at the game of life you'll still be able to find
happiness and to top that off there are dozens of right moves that you can make
every day so it's not like you have to figure out
exactly what to do you just have to figure out one of the
many right things to do and if you're able to make many right
moves in a row the benefits will start to compound
and you will succeed at an astounding rate
now let's talk about the bad news the bad news
is if you make a bunch of wrong moves and don't learn from those mistakes
if you continue to make the wrong choices repeatedly
your life will take a turn for the worse and you will find yourself
falling deep into a never ending pit life can start to feel like hell on
earth if you consistently make too many wrong moves now i want to
end this little thought experiment by telling you about the best
news the best news is that anyone can win at the game of life no matter how
behind you might feel how many wrong moves you've been making
recently or what your current life situation is like
you still have a very good shot at finding happiness
and fulfillment in life the only question is
how do you know how to make the right moves
well there are three ways to do this the first is through luck
sometimes we don't know what to do and we just randomly choose what move to
make and by pure chance it turns out that we
did the right thing the second way is through mentors good
mentors are essentially people who have been successfully playing the
game of life longer than you have they can look over your shoulder at your
board and help you differentiate between the right
and the wrong moves but good mentors are far
and few if you have access to one definitely try to nurture that
relationship the third and final way to make the
right move is the most important it is through wisdom which is when you
can tell the right from the wrong all on your own this is the most crucial
of the three because you got to be able to rely on
yourself at the end of the day your mentors teachers and parents can't
hold your hand forever and the great thing about wisdom is that
anyone can cultivate it by studying three simple subjects the
first subject is human behavior you need to study how
people think and behave what will people most likely do in
certain scenarios why do they do those things what are
some patterns that appear over and over again in certain cultures
what do people want in life you must study human nature because the
fact of the matter is that we live in a world run by humans
humans are the only species on this planet
capable of accomplishing great things and the only ones capable of
bringing about mass destruction and if you know how humans act
you can predict the future with far more accuracy for example i know that humans
have a habit of procrastinating as a species we don't like to take
action until the problem is so severe that we can no longer ignore it just
look at how we reacted to the virus we didn't really do anything until it
was already too late and i had a feeling that this would
happen back in january when i first read about the virus
and saw how america was responding to it i realized that we would react too
slowly so i made several moves based on this
prediction which allowed me to increase my net worth by
50 percent in just a couple of months i was able to make the right move
because i understand human behavior now the question remains
how do you improve your understanding of human behavior
well first and foremost you got to read psychology books like the laws of human
nature by robert greene which breaks all of it down
in extreme detail you can read certain history books
like sapiens by yuval ferrari which will give you insight on what humans have
done throughout history and why and finally you can learn from
experience by exposing yourself to as many human interactions as possible
which will allow you to become more familiar with their patterns over time
of course you should probably wait until the pandemic is over before doing this
the second subject you have to study are the current events
now many people in the self-improvement world will tell you that you should stay
as far away as possible from the news as it will bring too much negativity into
your life but i think that you should keep up with
the current events because it essentially dictates the roles of the
game let me explain just a year ago before we
had the pandemic we were essentially playing a totally different game
what was considered to be the right moves back in that world are totally
different from the right moves in this world back
then you could still open a small business with a physical location
and expect to do relatively well while nowadays we all know that such a task is
practically impossible if you were unaware of the current
events if you didn't know about the pandemic
until it actually hit your neighborhood and you decided to start a business with
a physical location in january you would have been
absolutely screwed on the other hand if you read about the
virus back in january like i did then you would have realized that the
game was about to change and that you should hold off on any
major decisions until you see how it plays out
it is foolish to not read the news because the world is constantly changing
if you are caught at the wrong place at the wrong time
because you aren't aware of these changes it can literally
be the worst move of your life imagine being stuck in a country as its
government collapses like we are currently seeing in multiple
places worldwide you won't even have time to worry about
self-improvement because you'll have to worry about surviving
now there is some truth to what people say about the news if you spend too much
time reading it it can definitely bring a lot of
negativity into your life this is why i suggest that you either
update yourself just once a week or even once every two weeks
if you feel like you are especially sensitive or if you are like me and you
don't mind doing it daily make sure to do it later on in the day
when you've already finished with all of your work
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subject you need to study are the facts of nature
this is basically understanding how nature works things like physics
biology technology etc and you need to study this because these things are
proven to be true and will continue to be true no matter
what the circumstances are we can predict that an apple will fall
when you drop it because of gravity we can predict that a virus will spread
more rapidly nowadays because of international air travel
we can predict that people will have more health problems in cities with high
air pollution these are just facts about how the world
works now how does this translate into making
the right move in life well i'll give you an example based on
what i've learned about the climate i predict
global warming will cause sea levels to rise much faster
than people think it will and if i was someone who planned on investing in real
estate to grow my wealth and if i lived in a place like new york
city or the southern part of florida i would be absolutely screwed if i
doubled down and started purchasing property in those
areas because chances are in a couple of years my properties will
get flooded and i'll lose a ton of money knowing this i can invest in real estate
in other areas that are less likely to be affected by climate change
which has a higher chance of being the right move
now it can be a bit hard to study the laws of nature because most of us are
not scientists which is why the best alternative is to
consume content by people who specialize in specific fields
but it's also important to note that you'll find people who support both
sides most scientists believe in climate
change but there are still some that do not in these cases it's crucial
to listen to both sides of the argument and see who backs their claims
with facts as compared to emotions the side with more evidence is usually right
although sometimes the evidence can be made up so you do have to do a decent
amount of research you can also test to see if what they're
saying is true for the rising sea level example
you can just look up the amount of ice in the arctic once you do you'll see
that it is at record lows this year which supports the idea that climate
change is in fact happening and that's it make sure to study human
nature current events and the laws of nature extensively
to increase your chances of making the right moves in the game of life
if you can do this you will be able to find more happiness in life
and you will also be able to avoid unnecessary pain and suffering
i hope you guys found this video helpful and besides that guys stay tuned