Einstein and Game Addicts
It is very easy to understand people who engage in efforful process of gaining experience and heading for the direction of becoming experts when they are at the beginning of the road. It is easy to pick up a hobby and devote countless hours in it; it is easy to spend day-and-night learning programing; it is easy to to practice tennis without breaks from time to time. Because, at the start of the road, it is easy to make progresses and we are making subconscious comparisons to majority of other people that haven't been on the road yet. Say I started to learn playing tennis, it is easy to play much better with some practice, and I am comparing to other people that havn't practiced at all. I am picking those people for my subconscious to compare because they are equivalent to me (before my practicing). Thus the practice makes great fun. We see us getting better and better, which subconsciously means we are getting better and better than other people.
Then after a while, practicing will lose its luster and become not so joyful anymore. For one, it is because now it needs much more significant effort to make an apparent progress as now our experience base is bigger. And for two, we are no longer comparing ourselves to novice, but to seasoned players that plays around or even better than our current level.
So it is very natural to see most majority stays at not far from the beginning of the road.
Then what plays key here is the size of your goal and your perseverance. The goal size is the projection size of the goal in your mind. In common word, it is "how strong" do you desire that goal. Of course how this projection works worth another day's thoughts of exploring, so lets leave it that the same goal can have very different projection size on different mind and those who find it easy to persever no doubt has a much bigger image of their goals.
Then it comes to perseverance. Can I say that the one who persevers reaches farther along the road? But is perseverance a fibre that is intrinsicly born with us? The more I think about it, the more I find it may be just a result of balance between the joy of imagining your goal versus pain the marching on the road causes.
The bigger of your goal, the more joy it gives by just thinking about it. The better you can spot the progress you made along the road helps reducing the pain it causes. The smaller of your goal, the more easily you can spot the small progress you made along the road. ... I know, above statement can not stand on their own, but do they reflect some truth? If they do, to make it easy to travel on the road, one needs both a big goal projection and a small practical goal. Without either of which, the road is quite tough. I salute to those who travels throught the path with only one element.
Einstein's big goal is finding out a unified theory of God, super grand! however, I am not sure he had enough progress along the path. He did had quite some progress at early middle part of his path -- discovering the theory of relativity. I guess that success makes his early life quite joyful (thus easy), but watch his next half life is pretty amazing, that he persevers. So a super grand goal does help! On the other hand, Newton, had almost similar grand goal as Einstein, but he gives that up at his mid-life -- very understandable. As to the overall life, Newton probably is more joyful than Einstein unless Einstein had another big progress that compensates his pain (if that happened, it will over compensates all the pain for sure). Of course, I could be totally off about the pain in Einstein due to some aspect of his life I am not aware of or neglected.
Addict gamers have a very similar strength of perseverance as Einstein. At the start of game it is easy and joyful because the character keeps leveling. At certain stage, they will reach a level that to gain another level, they need play countless more hours; and for the next level they need play even more. In this case, the size of goal is much smaller than Einstein's, but it is relatively easy to recognise the progress along the path as well. Most players after reaching certain level, the size of the goal projection in their mind are not sufficient to overcome the progress they made, so will stop. But for addict gamers, they persevers. They must have a way of project a not so big goal really big into their minds. Nevertheless, I salutes them.
Then after a while, practicing will lose its luster and become not so joyful anymore. For one, it is because now it needs much more significant effort to make an apparent progress as now our experience base is bigger. And for two, we are no longer comparing ourselves to novice, but to seasoned players that plays around or even better than our current level.
So it is very natural to see most majority stays at not far from the beginning of the road.
Then what plays key here is the size of your goal and your perseverance. The goal size is the projection size of the goal in your mind. In common word, it is "how strong" do you desire that goal. Of course how this projection works worth another day's thoughts of exploring, so lets leave it that the same goal can have very different projection size on different mind and those who find it easy to persever no doubt has a much bigger image of their goals.
Then it comes to perseverance. Can I say that the one who persevers reaches farther along the road? But is perseverance a fibre that is intrinsicly born with us? The more I think about it, the more I find it may be just a result of balance between the joy of imagining your goal versus pain the marching on the road causes.
The bigger of your goal, the more joy it gives by just thinking about it. The better you can spot the progress you made along the road helps reducing the pain it causes. The smaller of your goal, the more easily you can spot the small progress you made along the road. ... I know, above statement can not stand on their own, but do they reflect some truth? If they do, to make it easy to travel on the road, one needs both a big goal projection and a small practical goal. Without either of which, the road is quite tough. I salute to those who travels throught the path with only one element.
Einstein's big goal is finding out a unified theory of God, super grand! however, I am not sure he had enough progress along the path. He did had quite some progress at early middle part of his path -- discovering the theory of relativity. I guess that success makes his early life quite joyful (thus easy), but watch his next half life is pretty amazing, that he persevers. So a super grand goal does help! On the other hand, Newton, had almost similar grand goal as Einstein, but he gives that up at his mid-life -- very understandable. As to the overall life, Newton probably is more joyful than Einstein unless Einstein had another big progress that compensates his pain (if that happened, it will over compensates all the pain for sure). Of course, I could be totally off about the pain in Einstein due to some aspect of his life I am not aware of or neglected.
Addict gamers have a very similar strength of perseverance as Einstein. At the start of game it is easy and joyful because the character keeps leveling. At certain stage, they will reach a level that to gain another level, they need play countless more hours; and for the next level they need play even more. In this case, the size of goal is much smaller than Einstein's, but it is relatively easy to recognise the progress along the path as well. Most players after reaching certain level, the size of the goal projection in their mind are not sufficient to overcome the progress they made, so will stop. But for addict gamers, they persevers. They must have a way of project a not so big goal really big into their minds. Nevertheless, I salutes them.
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